pinterest

ppl use this thing

seriously though, apparently people use this thing????

My mom, my wife and my sister.

AND my mother-in-law.

Yes, we do.

GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT, MIKE? ;)

^ pinteresque

my wife is pretty into it.

...

?

yeah my sister told me about this — it seems to be 87% 4chan memes from 3 years ago

huh, must depend on who you follow. my wife's page is filled w/ fashion, food, home decor, etc.

yeah i thought it was for home decor, crafts etc

wimperest

spinsterest

yeah my sister told me about this — it seems to be 87% 4chan memes from 3 years ago

― tanuki, Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:52 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

What boards did you look at? lol

Some people to pin dumb stuff but I use mine mostly for the same things that Tyler's wife does namely recipes, craft and style stuff.

Ha, I thought this thing was just for Mormon women, like the public craftsy version of password protected blogs with family photos.

When I told my brother I didn't know what pinterest was he said, "It's like you don't have an LDS wife."

What?! lol, no. We've talked about it elsewhere. Some people do pin things that are idiotic and there is some weird religious stuff that creeps up sometimes but that's the case with the internet in general, right? I just find it handy to have everything in once place. I like the visual aspect of it as well. I've also found some really great things that others have pinned. I don't actually use it all that much but I like it when i do.

Now that you mention it, I think one of the ladies I follow is LDS. lol.

i didn't know this existed until ppl were talking about it on the girls thread

I'm not super familiar with pinterest.

― markers, Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:52 PM

http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/pinter.jpg

This Pinterest... good place to get a pair of shoes, eh? Help me get down to Sidcup and get me papers?

Fancy a pinterest?

My wife has started using this lately, mostly for just craft and recipie ideas I think.

When I told my brother I didn't know what pinterest was he said, "It's like you don't have an LDS wife."

:D :D

http://gawker.com/5881798/hot-new-social-network-pinterest-torn-apart-by-marginally-crude-picture

really enjoying pinterest

http://gawker.com/5881798/hot-new-social-network-pinterest-torn-apart-by-marginally-crude-picture

― markers, Thursday, February 2, 2012 9:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aaahahaha this is fantastic

btw i legitimately do not understand this site, afaict it's basically a skin for facebook that just shows you pictures of stuff?

huh, no

You pin stuff to different "boards" so that you can go back to them later. Recipes, craft stuff, clothes etc. The pictures all link back to the site where they originated so you can get more info. You can repin others things but there is also a button that you put in your bookmarks that you use to pin anything from anywhere on the net to one of your boards.

eh, windows is basically a skin for DOS that just shows you pictures of stuff, and that's done pretty well

If you see something you want to pin you hit that button and this is what happens. All the images on the page pop up and you can select which ones you want to pin. It'll then link back directly to that site so you can revisit it later. So I guess it's sort of like visual bookmarks that you can organize and access easily?

http://i44.tinypic.com/d7evp.png

so it's like your internet browser bookmarks but public?

ok yeah we're on the same page

except for contenderizer who compared a 3rd-tier social networking site to the creation of windows

I don't really think of it as social networking though.

But I guess that's because I never comment on stuff or read people's comments. I just use it because the visuals help me remember things that I want to come back to. That thing linked to above is hilarious.

myself and the other graphic designer I work with use it to periodically tag designs that seems kind of cool

woman in the office made me try her soup today because she got the recipe off pinterest.

it was a little runny.

try eating a higher res soup

I don't understand what this thing is for and I hope it just dies before I get the chance to.

there is always a new worst site on the internet

"In the meantime, checkout some pins."

OH MAN I don't know if I can handle this site, unless they have a cashier who is going to ring up my pins at the checkout counter.

OTOH this site would let me CONNECT WITH ALL THE WOMEN IN MY EXTENDED FAMILY
and maybe then my bookmarks wouldn't be an impenetrable ocean of recipes

(all the women except my mom, who has a notebook she wrote PINTEREST on the front of, in which she writes descriptions of the sites she would put on her pinterest if she had one!!)

lol

uh whoa
http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Gospel-According-to-Pinterest-Rosalynde-Welch-01-26-2012?offset=1&max=1

The Bible verses appearing most frequently on Pinterest, then, speak directly to the human vices parading past in the same space. What are those vices? The chocolate cakes and the beautiful bodies on display speak to gluttony and lust, but I would argue that these natural desires of the flesh are benign most of the time, even beautiful in their best forms. The real temptation of Pinterest, I would suggest, is the lure of an imaginary identity, a Pinterest-self for display only, a profile created entirely by the visual consumption of images rather than imaginative production. Look at my hip fashion sense, look at the sophistication of my imaginary home, look at the expensive shoes I found, look at the perfection of my hair, look at the decadence (or the virtue) of my recipe.

Self-fashioning in full view of others, free from the constraints that discipline our desires in the real world, can become an exercise in prideful status-seeking. A recipe for oreo-wrapped-in-cookie-dough-covered-in-brownie-batter may be a crime against good taste and cardiovascularity, but my mocking re-pin is the sin. The Pinterest-self is a self on display, not a self in relation, and therein lies the vice. Therein, too, lies insecurity and crippling anxiety, because an identity based entirely on the display of images—actual images or metaphorical "image"—is inherently fragile, vulnerable to attack from every corner. Thus the Bible verses reassuring our anxious Pinterest-selves that our true identities are known and valued by God, and exhorting our status-seeking Pinterest-selves to replace envy with love.

chocolate cakes and beautiful bodies

my mocking re-pin is the sin

idg the pinterest hate - it's just a way of visually bookmarking stuff, e.g. i pinned a whole bunch of spectacle frames, so when i feel like buying a pair i'll just go to my 'spectacles board' and i can see all the ones i've liked, at a glance. same with clothes or shoes, and it's REALLLY good for visually bookmarking gift ideas - just tooling round on the internet i see a lot of cool ideas for presents for various ppls and this way i have a board of those ideas, rather than a bunch of links that i have to click through to remind myself what they are.

there is a ton of really lame pins/pinners, like the bible verses and 'jokes', but you don't actually have to look at other ppl's pins, and you can choose to follow certain people, or just view certain categories.

why am i trying to sell you all on this

ppl on the internet hate everything on the internet iirc

I might have to try it out. I'm forever bookmarking websites and saving pictures for design ideas and then forgetting why I saved/bookmarked them...

^^ perfect for this kind of thing

i use it for bookmarking palettes and garment ideas for my job

can I get an invite from u, perchance? *bats eyelashes*

or do I even need an invite? I don't think I understand

Julia made me start a pinterest account. She said there were a lot of religious people there so my user name is "pazuzu." I pin pictures of goth babes, mostly.

not sure if it's invite-only still

i'll ilx-mail you now

I just bookmark and save photos. I signed on to Pinterest then canceled my account. I didn't find it at all useful. Never been back to the site.

I mentioned to Jeff the other night that I was going to start trolling people in pinterest but I forgot.

yay! thank u justin3!! i'm going to pin pin pin my weekend away now :D

I like the idea of a spectacles board.

maybe I'll do a board borad, whiteboards, chalkboards, carpetboards, floor boards

I had a board for when I was shopping for glasses. It was really helpful.

I also really like that you can un-follow individual boards, so I don't have to worry about spamming people that are uninterested in any particular subject I'm obsessing over. And then I can follow people that are interesting but avoid their boards that are devoted to inspirational quotes or what have you.

Yeah, a large initial obstacle was that Pinterest signed me up to follow a whole heap of bullshit that I had to go back and sift through and unfollow.

big discussion with the ladies in the office about why not use tumblr if you're just collecting images? they say it's more like facebook than a blog.

i thought as an internet editor who met his wife though the internet, i knew about the internet, but I don't.

we also talked about why it's just ladies and to be a complete misogynist, I think it all boils down to women be shopping.

No dude will ever see a carburetor or shotgun and think, Oh, let me just pin this to my board.

Why I have a pinterest account but not a tumblr account: tumblr confuses me, I don't like the lack of attribution for images, I can't follow conversations on it, I don't want to have conversations with people on the internet, I don't want a website, I just want a place to keep pictures I like.

See, as the creator of a tumblr site every six months, I don't get that. You can always find an image's root - for the most part. I don't have to interact with the people who come across my site. I've got tags out the wazoo if I'm looking for an image I saved or posted. I don't always have the Amazon BUY NOW link hooked into it, but I'm not really missing that either.

Is this like scrapbooking?

Just visited for the first time since Octoberish when I got on because my friend said I would love it. It's really grown, taken off. Looked up people I thought would be on it and they were. I have a blog and that's enough.

I have to say only ILX would spark my interest enough to return to something I found so lame the first time.

After all, it was ILX that sent me to a dolphin porn site. Is it ILX or just what happens to people past 1am who suffer from insomnia?

big discussion with the ladies in the office about why not use tumblr if you're just collecting images? they say it's more like facebook than a blog

The images function as links to the original site. So, for instance, if I pin a pic of a recipe I can go back to that pic and click on it to be taken to the original site for the recipe. Justine otm. I find it pretty useful and have actually seen less and less religious stuff which I just sort of ignore anyway. My username is just enbb btw.

I followed your nail polish board!

:)

shld probably pin that dolphin porn site

we also talked about why it's just ladies and to be a complete misogynist, I think it all boils down to women be shopping.

No dude will ever see a carburetor or shotgun and think, Oh, let me just pin this to my board.

http://manteresting.com/

So this is basically del.icio.us except with pictures and a slicker interface?

Has anyone been following the Pinterest copyright infringement discussion?

Any concept that uses "man" as a prefix (manteresting, manscaping, man show) gets automatic demerits in my book. Surprised there wasn't a banner ad for Dr. Pepper 10 on that page.

BUT that site did look a lot like canv.as, another site that I "don't get".

xp: what about? a cook/food photographer friend of mine was pretty pissed that some of her photos and recipes ended up there unattributed. I didn't pay too much attention to what exactly happened though.

Ha!

some dude showed me his "madonna outfit inspiration theories" board on this tonight

Xp yeah that's basically it -- they don't link pinned images, they download them on to their own servers, don't provide any attribution or automatic link back.

It's pretty clear copyright violation and i wonder how long they'll get away with it. I should go pin a load of stuff from Corbis and see what happens.

I thought the link back was the whole point of half the pins, i.e. advertising?

Like, advertising AS content..... maaan

I feel like a serial killer could strike IRL and leave all kinds of clues on Pinterest. for funsies.

they don't link pinned images, they download them on to their own servers, don't provide any attribution or automatic link back

Stet - I don't get this. The images are automatic link back to to original sites they're pinned from.

For example here are two of my pins. If you click on each of them you'll see that it does take you to the original site.

http://pinterest.com/pin/179299628884246581/

http://pinterest.com/pin/179299628884180317/

Yeah, sorry, they do provide a link back, but the actual image itself isn't served from the original server -- it's copied (poss illegally) by pinterest to their servers.

But, Pinterest Is For Girls! Sexism and Social Media

i have no pinterest in this site!

pinteresting input

maybe i just dont punderstand it

that article doesn't address the consumerist critique

pinteraddress the critique I mean

DJing tonight at Bryn Mawr's premier dance club, Teddy Pintergrest.

RE: Laurel's article link.

Dismissing pinterest because it skews female is bad business sense. One should be checking into IPO options for pinterest because it's becoming so popular.

Any dismissal of the site that I've made is more because it closely resembles tumblr to me (i haven't actively used pinterest though) and that I don't see any reason why I would use it. To poo-poo it just because it's a girly site is really missing the forest for the trees.

I did say it's popularity among females is great because "women be shoppin'". Just being flippant around you friends with that phrase, but it is true. Women have led the way in e-commerce, from turning Amazon from an online book store to an everything store, to making billionaires out of eBay founders. If you're wondering why Apple is a $500 billion business, remember that it's revolution began ten years ago with key lime pie-colored computers.

No one has accused me of anything and I'm not excusing myself. It's just that I read an article like that and feel like I'm more part of the problem than the solution by slagging off some girls' cupcake scrapbook. I'm thinking of ways now that I would use it. Maybe for example, when I'm cruising the realtor sites and find cool houses or silly backyards, I can pin them to a board for later. I would never bookmark that sort of thing on delicious or go through the trouble of making a new tumblr post each time. God help me when I start looking for a car again.

Of course, I'll have to do it under a pseudonym. I don't want anyone thinking I've gone fag or nothin'.

I feel sort of almost bad about the timing of that post, pplains. I read the article a few days ago but couldn't remember where, meant to post it to this thread for a while but didn't get around to it. Turned out it was p topical, though.

it's not just some girl's cupcake scrapbok tho - it has potential to become a massive social network built on object fetishization and consumption. if it were nothing but dudes w/ pictures of cars and computers and idk whatever dudes buy it would deserve the same skepticism.

I don't disagree with that at all...and lots of home design/style blogs or sites are the same (Apartment Therapy & Co, just for instance). But pinterest has been written of more dismissively b/c of the decor & clothes & recipes & Mormon scrapbooking angles.

yeah I can see that being true and it's hard to avoid the issue when the site's demographic is so skewed.

but when pinterest does monetize - and it's got a more natural path towards that than any social network so far - it's not gonna be the cookie recipes or bible quotes that turn this into a billion dollar company. (I'm projecting, it could also end up being a fad)

At least no one has yet coined a phrase as stupid as "Tumblr whites" around this site.

BECAUSE THE WORD "MORMONS" ALREADY EXISTS
SORRY I CAN'T HELP MYSELF

Afaik the demographics are only so heavily skewed to women in the US. Saw some stats that it's much closer to 50/50 in Europe

lol

Okay, I have a legit complaint about pinterest: it's really slow.

now that the shine has worn off Google Plus

"there’s an implication that serious content can’t be found on the site because it’s solely a storehouse for images people like."

That's unrelated to the gender issues, and is also a fair implication IMO.

A lot of Tumblr is just people reposting memes, sure, but there are enough people using it for photo-blogs or short text blogs that it has a veneer of being largely original content.

Kind of veering into MAN BRANDS territory here, but I'm always disappointed in the lack of gender-neutral craft/DIY stuff there is out there. Since Readymade shut down, it skews heavily female except for Make Magazine (I don't want to build a robot) or old man New Yankee Workshop stuff.
As a guy, I'd like a magazine/blog that's somewhere in between dull as nails woodworking (BUILD A HOME ENTERTAINMENT CENTER IN A WEEKEND) and Knitting Monthly.

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/pin_with_caution_says_lawyer_who_deleted_all_her_pinterest_posts/

I don't know much about Pinterest and wasn't aware that it skewed female until I saw this FB post the other day from a guy I went to college with:

"Sigh... OK, let me just put my last traces of my masculinity up on this shelf for safe keeping and... sigh... does anyone have a Pinterest invite they wouldn't mind sharing?"

xp to myself: TBF, the first thing you'll get if you're violating somebody's copyright is a C&D letter, the logical response to which is to delete your pins, so it's not like you're going to be sued for all of your monies right out of the gate for using Pinterest willy nilly.

that blog says Pinterest is 60/40 M/F roughly, but of everyone I 'know' on Pinterest (25 people-ish, I'm only following the people who don't post annoying baby shit all the time), I'm the only guy.

I created a consumerism board, so at least I'm honest when I pin the Steve McQueen-model Triumph Bonneville and a $3000 1911 pistol.

I wanted to make an animated cat gif board, but it doesn't animate.

I guess I'm completely behind, almost all of my friends have a pinterest, even ones i thought surely this guy isn't doing this. I have my bookmarks well organize by topic and then subtopics, just don't see why I need this.

because links are just words and you have to click on each one separately to see the image, while a pinterest board is a pic for each link and you can see them all on one page?

So if a blog I 'pin' on my board updates then the image will refer me back to the old post?

Or does pinterest auto update links?

Okay pplains, I've read what you have to say and it makes sense.

I couldn't sleep so I was skulking around pinterest...again 2nd night. Seem to be as many guys as girls on there and that did surprise me. Guys preferring to pin drink recipes, books to read, bikes, artwork with purty women for their pads and honestly what's wrong with a guy just really loving a certain couch.

It isn't for me because I have no house thing going on. Traveling around the country, living here and there, nesting is in the mind more than in an actual structure. So I figured that is why it makes absolutely no sense to me as a useful tool. I can see it for homeowners, renters soon to be homeowners.

There totally is a lack of manly diy/craft. There were tons of magazines that catered to men back in the 50's and 60's. Titles escaping me now but my grandfather had them in his work room. I wanted him to build me what was essentially a small bar hidden as a picture frame that hung on your wall. It would open and a small table would fold out revealing shelves for bar supplies. I thought it would make a cool place to color and store my crayons and markers.

This project looks cool: http://www.ebay.com/itm/PRACTICAL-HOUSEHOLDER-NOVERBER-1960-/280835409955?pt=UK_Collections_Lots_Books_EH&hash=item4163184823#ht_500wt_1196

well it's not really intended for stuff like that. as i mentioned above, it's best for bookmarking image-specific things, like pplains idea for pinning real estate listings while you look for houses is really good. and like i said, one of my boards is for glasses, so i can see all the frames i like at a glance, rather than having to click through dozens of links for a specific one, just bc i can't remember the style number. xp

tera, you can use it anyway you want. you don't have to be a homeowner or a nester. you don't have to only pin craft things or household items.

JS - I don't think you really get how it works because as far as I understand it this "So if a blog I 'pin' on my board updates" doesn't make any sense.

I guess I don't, but I only shop for records online, not much else and most of my online activity is music related, reading blogs and looking up info about an artist.

OK, so here's a way you might use it for that. Let's say there were some records you were eyeing up but gor whatever reason you were not ready to buy them yet. You could have a "records" board where you would pin images of those records as visiual reminders of things you had been thinking about purchasing. When you visit the board later clicking on an image of a record would take you back to the site you pinned them from.

I find it really helpful for recipes in that way. I am making something tonight that I pinned months ago. I had completely forgotten about it but seeing it there this morning reminded me and renewed my interest in making it. I used to use a bookmarks folder called "recipes" for this but I would often forget about it. Also, I find the visual aspect really handy. And like that I can see others ideas for recipes and pin those for later reference.

I could make a library list since as soon as I walk in there, my mind goes blank.

I could use Goodreads for that, but Good Lord, Goodreads people.

Can I make the background at least the Allied assault on Omaha Beach or something?

pp that's a really good idea, ie library list

It is!

Why thank you, girls!

See, I can totally understand boards for art, clothes, house stuff. Those things are clearly visual, and pictures of them instead of text links make sense. But for recipes I don't quite get it. Like, if you have a chocolate cake and a chocolate carrot cake and a vegan chocolate cake - you have to make sure you remember which one is which, whereas if you have a text link you can put that pertinent information there.

And for records you want to buy? Well again, you're better off having the text, because you usually remember a band name more than the album cover. Although! I had an idea to hold an album covers themed fancy dress party and pinterest seems like it could be great for that - put all of the ones you think are good ideas/cool looks on one board.

How many wags have a Harold Pinter pinterest board?

I used to carry around a notebook but having it all in my phone to consult when I get there would be better

Actually, this thread is kind of making me want to try it out. I'm turning into a big girl! Argh! *runs screaming from thread*

You put a caption on each image so you could label an image say "Vegan Chocolate Cake from veganrecipesfuckingshityeahfuck.com" or whatever. Or "Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight, red vinyl SWEET."

I don't want to share with people the records I'm looking for, it can be a dog eat dog world out there!

Then you definitely should not use this web service. It is inappropriate for your needs.

Y'all: follow me. User name "pazuzu." I pin pictures of goth babes and graveyards and Chicago and cats and recipes lol.

Can someone send an invite to me at trebaker at g mail dot com?

I wear a size 10.

You put a caption on each image so you could label an image say "Vegan Chocolate Cake from veganrecipesfuckingshityeahfuck.com" or whatever. Or "Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight, red vinyl SWEET."

― carl agatha, Sunday, March 4, 2012 9:53 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah, okay, so you have both? I guess that makes sense, then. I still think some things don't really need the added visual aspect, but then, I don't have to use it for them. Nobody's making me.

pp, I invitationed you.

thanks for the note. those are a size 10 for me too.

I'd like a Pinterest, plz

So I can't make this private, can I?

I've been using it as a bookmark for when I find a hilarious image I can use later to zing ILX with.

Thing is, I'll post it to my misc board and next thing I know, my email's blowing up with a bunch of pinterest people sharing it all over the goddam place.

AND, they're not getting that my pictures are meant to viewed with IRONY not SINCERITY.

The nerve.

I turned off all my followers etc so that I could build some boards first and figure out the place in peace and quiet, and then once I get the the hang of how it works, or find some pinned stuff worth showing the world, turn it all back on again.

Basically just go into setttings and say no to everything.

Done.

How this thing isn't going to turn into a porn site like tumblr pretty much as is beyond me.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing.

hmmm

I think the ppl who run the show are pretty heavy handed w/ moderation as far as that kind of content goes. As long as it's surviving as a business model w/out porn, they'll probably keep it up.

I remember reading about some kerfuffle in which somebody pinned something with a curse word on it, for example.

somebody should make a porn-only version of pinterest

pornterest

pinhub

dickerest

the only good thing about tumblr is the classy porn sites. sepia tinted clones of the 70s.

somebody should make a porn-only version of pinterest

― iatee, Friday, March 9, 2012 12:13 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

there are a bunch

http://www.sinterest.com/

It should be easy to stash great "stuff". With one hand.

failure to launch :(

sinterist. Why didn't I think of that?

Somebody posted this - http://www.fishinthesky.com/-FITS038075-2011-Style-Ball-Gown-Sweetheart-Embroidery-Sleeveless-Floor-length-Organza-Prom-Dress-Evening-Dress-p-200003788.html - to a board called "wedding party ideas."

lol that looks like something out of labyrinth

http://i.imgur.com/NTGCI.jpg

dress reminds me of
http://girloutofdixie.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/fd_toilet_tissue_covers-fw.jpg

haha YES

I'm really glad I'm not in her wedding party.

Ye gods....If that's the wedding dress I'd hate to see the bridesmaids

Also is that floral material on the bodice?

*HURL*

I think those are supposed to be the bridesmaid's dresses. I should have followed her board. I'll probably never find her again and who knows when I'll come across someone with such terrible taste. Oh wait, I know. The next time I look at all the recent pins.

Updated terms of service:

http://blog.pinterest.com/post/19799177970/pinterest-updated-terms

a friend of mine basically pins everything that could be featured on fuckyournoguchitable only she wants it all

i've seriously already bookmarked about 20 different posts on how to curl my hair without an iron - can someone send an invite my way please? seattleDOTmaryATgmailDOTcom. thank you!!

argh it will only let me invite you through FB, not through email. What a crock of shit! I tried ;_; Does your last name begin with J and are you friends with Ned? Cuz if so, I can add you and then invite you.

I ended up getting an automated invite from them a few days ago so thank you anyway...I hate this linking through fb thing, such bullshit! I had to link to my twitter which is marginally better I guess.

You can unlink it once you register.

did this thing die out

feel like i haven't heard it mentioned as much as i did a few months ago

also i think i saw something somewhere indicating its popularity was decreasing or something like that

I stopped caring about a month after I joined

too many social network things, I barely do twitter anymore

I don't really think it is. Maybe just not in the news anymore?

I really want to make a "Mocking Board" for all of the innocuous things that make me irrationally angry on Pinterest but I'm not sure I want to dedicate the time to trolling a bunch of ding dongs on the internet. Anyway here are three:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KwxGBNTSp3I/Tv8MHumvbxI/AAAAAAAABtk/aI5jveZuuo8/s1600/note+from+God.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7060/6994676097_3d44e03780_z.jpg

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ludkt55IiF1qdhvp3o1_500.jpg

I still like this site, by the way. It's a fun distraction, and I have found some pretty interesting recipes which is great because we were in a major rut.

Will not be useful to me until it shows animated cat gifs properly.

I've got this. - God.

lol

Yeha there's so much crap. There was one thing circulating about how to be a good wife that was just horrifying. Ugh. I still like it a lot though. I've also gotten some great recipes and project ideas etc. I made these amazing chocolate covered pretzles and choc covered strawberries on the 4th that I got the ideas from there and they were a huge hit!

Yeah I just wish there was an option to not-see certain pins over and over again. Or a better filter than just categories.

Recipes are what chased me away from Pinterest.

I sort of like the unfiltered nature of the recipes because you get interesting things like fettuccine alfredo made with Greek yogurt, parm cheese, and chicken broth (made that one, it was delicious) or a nifty how to on frying tofu mixed in with obscene casseroles that involve rice, chicken and cream cheese and cream of chicken soup and cheese and mayonnaise and sour cream.

I would like to filter out anything religious or anything related to dieting/fitness, the latter never being anything more interesting than what we've all been reading in women's magazines since time immemorial. Oh and stupid inspirational quotes. Also right wing nonsense.

http://pinterest.com/staceynightmare/hairy-chests-i-want-to-cry-on/

omg dying

Amazing.

*followed*

I don't know if this was posted but it's sometimes pretty amusing http://www.wtfpinterest.com/

it seems lik e the only people I know who use this are women - cause men are nto allowed to use pins in real life?

confused

Same here - most of the people I know who are on it are women.

This is a concern:

How do I block users from following me?

Right now, we don't have a block function. However, it's a feature that we know is important and that we're working on. Thanks so much for the suggestion and for your patience!

There are a couple people who I really don't want pestering me who are overdue to come along and muck up my precious bards with their UTTERLY INANE and COPIOUS comments, just like they did on my FB and Flickr until I managed them.

yeah it's kind of annoying that i feel obligated to follow certain ppl who follow me, even if i'm not interested in any of their boards. i'd like the option to 'follow' but not ~actually~ follow ppl.

Yeh, that too. It's not like on FB or Twitter where you can follow them but hide them. Regardless, I love using it as a bookmark site - it's so much easier to browse images than words! But I must remember to maintain text, too b/c it's easy to let things get way out of hand.

It hasn't hit me a a social site yet.

I may be wrong but can't you subscribe to a person's individual boards, if they've sorted them? Could perhaps only subscribe to least irritating subset of the person's interests..?

You can, yeah.

Jesse, I think your best bet is to be as anonymous as possible so these jerks can't find you. Change your picture, don't connect it to Facebook. Just make it a stand alone thing.

It turns out I approach Pinterest like I do Pandora stations with lots of heartless curation, mostly because I'm indifferent to the social aspects of the site and, kind of surprisingly, it makes me really happy to see all the pretty pins.

yeah i wish i hadn't signed up with fb, but i think initially that was the only option

Still you have to sign up w/FB or Twitter but you can immediately disconnect it.

yeah i did that, but some ppl got in before then

Finally: secret boards!

I'm on Pinterest now, after all smack I gave it for being useless to me. I found a use for it. I actually use it quite frequently.

ppl use this thing

"inspire and acquire"

Only 3? That's dumb.

It's still being tested or something

What if testing leads them to conclude that secrets hurt the family and they turn them public? Hoping that day comes.

A friend of mine had something "repinned" by Glenn Danzig yesterday. This makes me happier than anything since Redfoo became a professional tennis player last week. Not so much that it was my friend, just the knowledge that Glenn Danzig keeps himself busy on Pinterest.

http://dcurt.is/what-a-stupid-idea

yeah i read that earlier today

I like DC but svbtle is impossible to navigate

How on Earth would this 20-something guy in Silicon Valley reach his target market of middle aged women? And would they even want such a thing? Did they even own iPhones?

Fuck that guy.

lol
http://godinterest.co.uk/?

there are clones of this site for dudes. so bad. lemme see

http://manteresting.com

godinterest is the clunkiest set of morphemes i've seen squished together in some time

the .co.uk is a nice touch

http://gentlemint.com/

pinterest is the only one of these sites that isn't terrible

Interesting. Man. Things.

See but the thing is, you can use Pinterest and dedicate all of your boards to just Godinteresting things, or just Interesting. Man. Things. You only follow boards that encompass those interests and those are the only "pins" you'll ever see. You don't need an entirely separate app/site unless your faith/interests are so fragile that the possibility of a Satanic or girly (SAME THING AMIRITE FELLAS) pin coming into your line of vision would destroy the very foundation of who you are.

Anyway, brb, signing up for Godinterest.co.uk to troll the squares.

haha that would be fantastic

i would watch that

There are only like 15 members and they all looked so sincere. I just can't do it. I'm too nice to be a good troll.

Please note that on Manteristing, the actions you can take with a bookmark are "nail," "bump," and "talk." And if you nail something that someone else posted, it is called a "renail." Nailing being much more manly than pinning, you see.

lol no way!
nail
ha

I'm surprised they aren't even more manly, like "penetrate," "murder," and "meat."

"i totally mustached that post about bacon, dear sir!"

i'm on pinterest now, so far just posting art/design/fashion/architecture type stuff.

http://www.pinterest.com/jbeth0781/

You have to be creative and specific with the searches, but there is a way to avoid the sentimental crap and find some really cool images and boards.

I've been enjoying it quite a bit lately, but it does take some effort. I like fashion, but my fashion searches turned up a lot of hooker clothing and shoes.