The only time I seem to interact with Pinterest is when I’m searching for images of something on my phone, let’s say “pictures of mountains”. I want to get the image in full res so I go to the site, then I can’t copy it or download it.
From these brief interactions and exploring the site I just don’t see the appeal. Pinterest just seems like a terrible image search engine with the ‘feature?’ that every few scrolls pulls up similar-ish categories to the image search you did(Mausoleum might bring up Pharaohs for example). It could be that I’ve just never taken the time to use it properly, so I thought I would ask people: what is Pinterest good for / why does it exist.
Hopefully is not too harsh I am high atm.
It exists to abuse and profit off search engine optimisation. More than half of most image search results are polluted with their results which forces you sign up to do anything useful with them.
I’m not entirely sure what people actually use it for, but I do regularly chuckle when I remember my (very manly man) father in law asking for help setting up his Pinterest account.
I forgot it existed because some lovely person made an extension to block it ☺️
Whoever does their SEO is a genius but should also have been drowned at birth
Would you be so kind to share more about that extension please?
The one I use is called “Unpinterested!”, and is on both the Firefox and chrome extension stores. You can also use uBlacklist to block the domains.
Sweet, I see in the comments many others have an extension for this. Crazy I didn’t even think about it as an option!
There’s also one called “Personal blocklist” which is very handy.
It’s for creating mood boards / inspiration boards
My d&d dm asked us (the players) to create pin boards with stuff relevant to our characters. Lime clothing style, weapons, that kind of stuff. Never used it before…
I use it for ideas and references. Back when I drew, it was a great source for models. Also nice for projects. They have a plethora of patterns for crafting, not to mention just straight inspiration if you’re looking to design pretty much anything. I don’t use it to just look at pictures, I go to it looking for something specific.
It kind of reminds me of a visual bookmark manager.
Some people will use it to gather recipes. They might even group some, like “Thanksgiving dinner ideas” or “new diet.” When you do this, you can even get a little thumbnail that will make it easier to find later.
It’s not limited to recipes. You can link a lot of stuff, like maybe tutorials on how to build a shelving unit. You could put it in a group called “organizing my garage,” along with other stuff you want to do.
You might not even necessarily use it for links, maybe you have an idea for a costume or a picture you want to draw. You can find picture inspiration. Once you find a picture, it can suggest more you might like.
One can of course achieve this type of thing without Pinterest (I do just fine with my own system) but Pinterest does make it very convenient, especially for people that aren’t as tech savvy.
The only time I encounter it is when doing image searches for normal things and it seems to exist to make it maximally annoying to search for and download images. If I ever end up on Pinterest it’s just a guaranteed headache.
I fucking hate it. It’s unintuitive, it’s clunky, it doesn’t do a good job at what it claims it does, and it makes locating the original images harder unless you log in.
It’s the web version of a vision board where you cut out images and put them on a board. But it links to the source as well.
It’s a social network version of browser bookmarks.
I use it for art insoiration and reference. Also recently inspiration for a new haircut
You can totally get the images from Pinterest. I just inslect element and click through the 10 subelements but I think there are extensions and DuckDuckGo.
Tumblr from 2012 had an unparalleled hatred of Pinterest I know that much. Like far worse than their love-hate relationship with 4chan
Oh man if you like images of aesthetic mood board stuff you have not lived until you’ve let the algorithm take the wheel and fallen into a pin hole. It’s quite stimulating.
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