Pinterest?

[Irulan]

What is it? I don't get it.

[withm]

Oh rats! I saw the thread and thought - great - now I can find out what it is all about.

I looked at it once and it made no sense at all to me. I hope someone will enlighten us.

[VeganBikeChick]

Pinterest is the idea of a "bulletin board" online, where you can "pin" things that interest you. For me, I have a "dream home" page, where I've pinned things I would like to decorate with, I also have a "knit/crochet" page where I pin projects I'm interested in. There's all kinds of things on pinterest - food recipes, cleaning ideas and solutions, storage solutions, you name it, it's probably there. For me, it helps me keep track of a lot of nifty ideas so I don't forget about them and then suddenly remember them and think, "Now where did I see that"? And everything you pin has a link with it, so if you click on the picture it will take you to that link.

It took me a little while to understand it, and while I'm not addicted, I think it's a pretty neat concept.

[Irulan]

Thanks. So far all I've seen is boards where people have lists of all their gear, "stuff" so to speak and not ideas.

[VeganBikeChick]

Well, you can steal things off of others' boards. It's like community sharing . You can also pin things from different websites to your boards.

[emily_in_nc]

For some reason, I'm just not (p)interested in it. But then again, it took me until last year to sign up for Facebook. Just seems like another way to waste time, and I have plenty of those already!