IN DEFENSE OF PINTEREST

摘要

Therapists often run into a curious problem during treatment: Clients aren't very good at describing their emotions. How exactly do you express the nature of your depression? So this spring, relationship counselor Crystal Rice hit upon a clever idea. She had her clients use Pinterest the popular picture-pinning social network, to create arrays of images that map out their feelings. It's a brilliant epiphany: While emotions can be devilishly difficult to convey in words, they're often very accessible via pictures. "This way we can really identify what's going on," Rice says. And Rice's idea, as it turns out, is a clue to a question that's been debated a lot: Why the heck is Pinterest so popular?