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

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.