Pinterest: A Psychological Analysis

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In the beginning it was easy to reframe from social media because I was enjoying the “mental” break from it and I was busy with other things but the last few days has been challenging. As I mentioned in class last Thursday, I did get on Facebook to check something a few days ago but since then I seem to want to check it at least once a day. I am not on it long, maybe only two minutes and I log right back off but it is still the point that I logged on when I wasn’t supposed to. I was doing great with not getting on Pinterest which has been the most difficult until this past Friday. I was researching different activities, worksheets, books, and coping skills to help children with anxiety and anger from trauma and neglect for the children that I work with when I kept having issues with the results I was finding. I first tried Google because typically you can find anything on there but everything I was finding you had to pay for or it was just articles about anxiety, which articles are great but children are not interested in what a study found helpful. …show more content…

Unfortunately, I did this one time for work because I could not find anything useful that I could use and within a couple of minutes I had found a handful of activities. I think this example shows just how easy it is for me as a student to write this “addiction” off as just an assignment for my benefit and then jump right back into it. Obviously, an addict cannot choose when or where is a good time for