Dear Pinterest,

Once again, please let me say, I wrote this a while ago...attempted to post it to the original blog..that clearly didn't work.. and am now posting it to this one. Enjoy.

"Dear Pinterest, Please change your terms or I'm leaving."

I came across this pin and was instantly intrigued. Before I read it, I had to think: what are Pinterest's terms and conditions. And honestly, who actually reads anyone's terms and conditions?! Terms and conditions tend to be annoying and irrelevant..at least to me. Then, it made me think of this terrible South Park episode that I saw about how people never read terms and conditions (I won't go into detail, it was kind of gross. Check it out if you want)...but that reminded me..WHO READS THIS!? Eventually, I calmed down and assumed, this is someone's job. They make these terms and conditions for someone to read, so therefore I guess someone must be reading them.

After my mental tangent, I realized, I was still interested in this. Why should Pinterest change their terms and conditions? Well, let me say, if this article is true, they should!

The "article" turned out to be somone's blog who was blogging about this..I am dying to know where this person found the information or if they actually read the terms and conditions...anyways. In all, Pinterest accepts no responsibility for anything. This website encourages you to pin anything from any website but they do not want you to pin things to self promote. Therefore, you shouldn't pin your own accomplishments or your own blog.

This is fine. Whatever. But then you read on. Pinterest does not protect you from any copy write issues regarding what you pin. The way this blogger laid it out is basically:

"

1. You pin a picture of a cat without permission.
2. Pinterest sells it to ABC Marketing.
3. ABC Marketing prints it on kitty litter boxes.
4. Cat picture owner sees kitty litter box in store and calls lawyer.
5. Lawyer calls Pinterest.
6. Pinterest calls you.
7. Bad things happen. "

Now, the blogger admits to not being a lawyer and not really knowing how this will work, but I read what she researched and I am kind of on the same page. I mean in all truths, the likeliness of this happening is slim to none but it is still kind of risky. So by everyone repinning this picture and the link to this story, hopefully Pinterest will fix the problem or provide an explanation.  I hope to hear an update sometimes soon!



 Check it out for yourself!

http://www.knoed.com/thewindowseat/pinterest-change-your-terms-or-were-leaving/