ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some understanding of the impact of imagining future selves as meaningful literacy tools particularly in conjunction with the affordances of recursive storytelling and identity formation in digital spaces. It also provides understanding as regards the challenges and tensions young Evangelical women face in balancing their dreams with their real lives while simultaneously figuring out where they fit with the Evangelical version of the ideal life, particularly in relation to the materialistic aspects of the site and “coveting”. One has the ability to see a former self living in the dream of becoming famous with the perspective of one who realizes that dream is not coming true. The lack of self-generated content as well as its emphasis on the domestic, made Pinterest “safe” in comparison to other internet spaces. The gender expectations prescribed in the Evangelical “ideal” life play an instrumental role in how young women view their futures in relationship to domestic, long-term education and vocational goals.
