Why Pinterest Is the Most Intimate Social Media Platform

If you really want to get to know someone, check their pins.

Laura Todd Carns
The Startup
Published in
4 min readOct 22, 2020

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At this point in history, being an evangelist for any type of social media is, I realize, deeply problematic. From the various ways social media and its misuse has threatened our democracy, to the way kids are finding new ways to bully one another online, social media in general is experiencing something of a reckoning. And while I do acknowledge its many ills for society at large, I am, and always have been, a total sucker for online…

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Laura Todd Carns
The Startup

Freelancer & fictioneer. Contributor to Medium pubs Human Parts, GEN, Curious; bylines elsewhere in WaPo, Quartz, EL, The Lily & more. www.lauratoddcarns.com