Pinterest, is a brilliant, brilliant website with a simple concept. Save pictures of things you love to a cleanly designed online "pin board" - organize your boards by category - and end up with an organized gallery of your favorite things. People in the Pinterest community typically pin projects or crafts they want to do, items they want to buy, collect inspirational images, etc... The girls in my network all have wedding pinboards, fashion pinboards, and Betty Homemaker boards.
Annoying things about Pinterest:
1. EVERYONE can see your boards. If you want to have a private board for your own reference that nobody else can see, theres absolutely no way to change the privacy settings. You can only choose not to be found on a public search engine. So, if I have clients, copy-cat friends or other non-specific-stalker-types as members on pinterest - they can see all my cool shit. I'm not into that. Copy catting is my #1 pet peeve!
2. People abuse pinterest. I can NOT believe that professional pinteresters/bloggers pin like 30 things in 2 seconds and clog up my feed. THANK YOU OLD LADY FOR DISPLAYING 300 VINTAGE DRESSES. Oh wait, no. THANK YOU CRAFT BLOGGER LADY FOR PINNING 15 RECIPES AND 15 DIY PROJECTS IN 30 SECONDS - ITS NOT EVEN POSSIBLE THAT YOU READ THOSE. I hate you.
3. These annoying people were automatically added to my "following" list when I clicked that I was interested in fashion and crafts. It took me 2 frustrating weeks to unfollow them.
4. Listen, lady friend, I see you all the time. I know that you don't know shit about fashion. So can you please stop repinning fashions you like and scaring me into thinking that you might one day start a blog about fashion. I see you wearing your ugly outfits. Don't start with me.
5. Why do you have a wedding board? You don't even have a boyfriend. People know this. Save it to a secret file on your computer like everyone else and stop embarrassing yourself.
6. Some people pin things that I like. But I can't bring myself to repin their fake style. While I love when someone repins something of mine, I jut cant give that satisfaction to people I think are fronting. Sorry.
7. It's like....living a fake life on facebook - like you're having the BEST time EVER all the time. Except on Pinterest, you're faking being skilled and having the best taste EVER.
Good things about Pinterest:
1. It's a really really beautiful interface.
2. It's really easy to use.
3. It's something I could use for my whole life.
4. You have to be invited or wait "in line" for a membership. Exclusivity is attractive to me...even if its a little faux-exclusive. Whatever.
Conclusion: Give the ability to make boards invisible to your followers and I'll be addicted for life.
Here's a snapshot of mine:
1 comment:
Good work :)
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