Pinterest. What is it? There are so many people who are
obsessed with this website but there are just as many who don’t even know what
it is.
defines itself as:
"Pinterest is a Virtual Pinboard.
Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes."
One happy Pinner found a cute picture to describe Pinterest:
In my world, Pinterest is an addiction. It allows me to find
all these great pictures, ideas and recipes. I am an avid pinner of clothing,
wedding finds, crafts, exercises, inspiration, and home decorating ideas. The
problem with Pinterest is it’s increasing ability to make me feel inadequate
about my own clothing, lack of wedding, inability to create crafts, inability
to exercise, lack of inspiration, and no home to decorate. In all, I am writing this blog to force myself
to complete at least a few of the projects that I have pinned.
So, how does it work? When joining Pinterest, you first have
to be “invited” to join. You can tell them that you wanted to be invited or
have a friend invite you. To me this seems like they are trying to make it feel
exclusive but really it is pretty inconvenient. After you have an account, you
can follow all of your friends from Facebook and see what they are pinning.
Pinning means that you like something, so you “pin” it to one of your boards
(which you can title whatever you want) and it is basically like a bulletin
board where you pin pictures up. But since it is online, these pictures can
link you to recipes or directions or whatever. Now, you can also add a Pin It
button to your internet toolbar. This way you can pin whatever you want from
any website rather than just repining what your friends have pinned.
Hyperbole and a Half, the blog, created this cute picture to
describe the way you start pinning:
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