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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Regarding the giving, do you think it's possible that she DOES do things for others but just doesn't post about it because it would seem like she was helping just for social clout? (okay, that doesn't seem totally in character with the way she posts everything else, but at one time I could have seen that as a possibility.) Just like she wasn't the one who posted about going to Jamie's side and cooking and helping the group as they grieved.

(But signing up for a meal train and then just not showing up...that's not cool.)[/quote]

I would buy that if there were any evidence of it, ever. But this has been on my radar for a while, because I have found adult friendships to be very complicated. She did an entire series on friendship on her podcast without ever discussing a single time she showed up for anyone else. And her repeated mantra is "just show up! Build a picnic table in your yard/pizza oven in your backyard/supper club in your community and one day you, too, will be surrounded by amazing people who build you porch beds!"[/quote]

She reminds me a little of Kelle Hampton with her obsession of trying to show people she is surrounded by friends who adore her. Kelle seems to have lost her girl gang and I think it was all for show for her book. I do wonder if Jen didn't have a successful internet following would all these ladies do much for her. They get to look good in the internet by appearing as loyal, selfless friends. They give her supply, and they get supply too by being featured. Just because some were there before internet fame when she was presumably more humble doesn't mean they would be there if she lost her fame or had a scandal of her own causing.

I do think these women do a disservice to middle age women looking for friendship. Most working women do not have time to do what these ladies do and friendships eb and flow based on life stressors. Plus, it tends to be the more immature and BS ones who need to take a lot of OMG Friends! photos for the internet.  Back in my mommy and me days with babies I recall there was always some queen B arranging "mom's night out" and she had to take a million photos and post the ones (where she looked fabulous) on the net. Behind her back the other ladies seem to both fear her and hate her. I drifted from all that pretty quickly-not my scene. I like real people and I don'[t put on a show for social media.[/quote]

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