About two years ago, a website was launched that would change the way people expressed their interests. It gave people the opportunity to save images of products including clothes, food, tattoos, or paintings, you name it and they probably have it. What is this magnificent website, you may ask? Pinterest.
As a Pinterest user myself, the best way I can describe it is a melting pot of all your wildest dreams, and it puts everything you have ever dreamed of having in one secure and picture perfect place.
The point of Pinterest is to explore a world of endless ideas and inventions that are out of your grasp in the real world. It gives people an opportunity to dream up a world where they could have everything. Some of those dreams can come true by clicking the picture of the item you are interested in, and it will take you to the website where you can buy it.
The basics of Pinterest are as follows: you can sign in through Facebook which allows you to follow all of your Facebook friends that have a pinterest (this gives you the opportunity to get comfortable with the set up of Pinterest). Once you are all signed up and gather a few followers, you can begin pinning and making boards. A board is an overall category of the things you pin, and its focus could be clothes, hairstyles or pets. With those boards, you can then re-pin your friends’ pins and put them in the board that fits their description. For example, if your friend pins a picture of an amazing pair of shoes that you are just dying to have, you can re-pin it to your ‘shoe’ board.
Although Pinterest is accessible to everyone, studies by Pinterest itself show that approximately seventy percent of all Pinterest users are women. This makes sense because a majority of the things that are pinned most frequently are images of things that interest women such as designer clothes, dream vacations, and beautiful wedding dresses that cost more than your car.
The whole process may be confusing and overwhelming at the beginning, but trust me, you will be addicted after ten minutes. Not only does it let you explore things you didn’t even know existed, but you can put everything you have ever dreamed about (like, your dream wedding) in one place.
If you are interested in signing up (which I highly recommend!) contact a friend of yours that has a Pinterest and have her send you an ‘invitation’ so the process speeds up! If you don’t know anyone with a Pinterest, you can request an ‘invitation’ through the company, and they will eventually get back to you!
