When I first heard of Pinterest, my first reaction was that of being wary. Just like I had been distrustful of Facebook when it had arrived.
On an impulse, I signed up almost a week ago and I’ve been ecstatic ever since.
The network is like something I have always maintained in my personal computer – I still have folders which read Movie Posters, Interesting Advertisements, Shoes, Food Photography and Places I’d like to visit before I die – among many others. Here, I would store some of my favourite images and browse through them later.
For those interested in the theory – Pinterest is a pinboard-style social photo sharing website. The service allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections.
For easier understanding, a practical example: Supposing one is designing home interiors and wants to curate every piece and ensure that optimum utilisation of space happens – they can create a Board on Pinterest and tag it ‘Home Decor’. Here they can collect and store images that appeal to them and later convert them into practicality. Similarly, this also becomes a forum for people to connect over things they find interesting.
Although I’m rather new here – I’ve hardly had so much fun on a social media fora and I urge everyone I know to join (Even when the statistics state that women dominate the user count on Pinterest)!
