Pinterest - Do You Use It?

[Gingerella72]

Interesting thoughts, thanks! I have gone over there to browse but it seems hard to navigate. There doesn't seem like there's any rhyme or reason to anything and it's all just a big jumble of different people's stuff that I have no interest in. Maybe it looks different if you have an actual account?

I do like the organizing idea (and I'm a visual person too) but a few people I know who 'pin' do so with the smugness of one trying to make a point. Like, "look how uber-crunchy-organic I am and all of the raw milk recipes I have pinned, I'm so much healthier than thou". And they have their pins connected to facebook so every time they pin I see it in my FB newsfeed. Drives me nuts.

[fidgiegirl]

I loathed Pinterest for a while before I actually created an account. It seemed like the realm of folks bragging about their ideas for over the top kid’s birthdays, crazy DIY projects that only super human people have time for, and pictures of pretend home design that isn't even close to how real people live.

I do think this is a real danger with services like this, or with the HGTV station, or Better Homes and Gardens . . . but we are pretty good here at actively fighting that. It's hard, though. Sometimes I think about uploading pics of my own messy bedroom just to inject some reality. But know what? They wouldn't get repinned, anyway!

[fidgiegirl]

Interesting thoughts, thanks! I have gone over there to browse but it seems hard to navigate. There doesn't seem like there's any rhyme or reason to anything and it's all just a big jumble of different people's stuff that I have no interest in. Maybe it looks different if you have an actual account?

Looks the same, but the content is different depending on who you are following or what you have searched. I used to search Pinterest before I created an account, and still do. Organization ideas for crochet hooks? Paths for gardens? Chicken recipes? Search that and get a bunch of ideas at a glance.

[JaneV2.0]

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I do like the organizing idea (and I'm a visual person too) but a few people I know who 'pin' do so with the smugness of one trying to make a point. Like, "look how uber-crunchy-organic I am and all of the raw milk recipes I have pinned, I'm so much healthier than thou". And they have their pins connected to facebook so every time they pin I see it in my FB newsfeed. Drives me nuts.

Well it's not like there isn't plenty of smugness to go around here on the Interwebs...It's tiresome, but inevitable.

[jennipurrr]

I do like the organizing idea (and I'm a visual person too) but a few people I know who 'pin' do so with the smugness of one trying to make a point. Like, "look how uber-crunchy-organic I am and all of the raw milk recipes I have pinned, I'm so much healthier than thou".

Oh no, while I am judging people posting processed food recipes, maybe this is the critique people have about my pins, haha. Probably the best lesson is I need to concentrate on my own thing and quit the judgement. Seriously, the last pin I pinned was a granola bar recipie with this title - "I will never buy granola bars again!! No bake, Chewy Granola Bars (just like Quaker) without strange ingredients."

I pin stuff I *hope* to actually/make do one day. Not trying to one up anyone, just have a collection of stuff to go back to. I seriously am thinking about trying the granola bars bc DH eats them every day and usually buys the expensive ones at the store. Cheap/healthy is what I am going for in trying new things.

I do find the auto feed into FB quite annoying. I have mine turned off. If I want to see pins I can go right on over to Pinterest.

[fidgiegirl]

Oh no, while I am judging people posting processed food recipes, maybe this is the critique people have about my pins, haha. Probably the best lesson is I need to concentrate on my own thing and quit the judgement. Seriously, the last pin I pinned was a granola bar recipie with this title - "I will never buy granola bars again!! No bake, Chewy Granola Bars (just like Quaker) without strange ingredients."

I pin stuff I *hope* to actually/make do one day. Not trying to one up anyone, just have a collection of stuff to go back to. I seriously am thinking about trying the granola bars bc DH eats them every day and usually buys the expensive ones at the store. Cheap/healthy is what I am going for in trying new things.

I do find the auto feed into FB quite annoying. I have mine turned off. If I want to see pins I can go right on over to Pinterest.

I did a bad once with the FB feed. My not-engaged-but-living-with-boyfriend niece had a board entitled "wedding" that was connected to her FB. I pointed that out. Comically, I thought, but publicly. Whoops, not one of my shining interactions in social media. But she quit having it publish to her FB . . . I honestly think she didn't realize.

[Rosemary]

I use Pinterest to file crafts I probably will never get around to making and recipes I probably will never get around to cooking.

It's less time-intensive and clutter-producing of my former method of keeping these things, which was on paper.

I have made a few things I've found there. And I've found some good gardening tips. If you're searching for something design or color related, it's a lot quicker than google since the images come up with the text for your search.

[Simplicity]

I confess to being a Pinterest addict.

I was getting irritated that all I seemed to see were recipes for a while, but now I've been following so many gardening boards lately that all I see is gardening! LOL I really need to diversify I think!

I repin all of the things that I like or would like to try someday. It really is kind of a glorified bookmarking thing, but for some reason I use it extensively, whereas I rarely bookmark stuff.

[JaneV2.0]

My bookmarks all seem to go into a black hole. I can never find the most effective ones in the crowd. Maybe Pinterest would serve me better.

[Jilly]

I go there when I want to pretend, to myself, that I am doing something whilst not actually doing anything useful. True. Thanks for the reminder, going there now.