I'm not following anyone. It's not really a "social" media tool. It's a crowdsourcing tool. It's a curating tool. Schools and colleges use Pinterest for curating in classes, libraries, etc.

I hate when I search for something and it comes back with a lot of Pinterest links that don’t go anywhere.

Instead of keeping the tabs open on your phone, just bookmark them. I have a bookmark folder for recipes. I go through every now and then to delete ones I never ended up using or didn’t like.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe I don’t follow the right people but I feel like Pinterest became really cluttered. Too much cheesy mommy/Mormon blogger content, gross “dump it” recipes, etc. I prefer Instagram.

I don’t follow anyone on Pinterest and it’s great. I use it just for my own stuff. Sometimes when I’m looking for ideas I stumble across a board that I really like and I’ll pin a bunch of stuff from it, but I don’t even bother to follow it. I think of it as just “the internet” but I can easily save stuff I see ihh by to categories and go back later to look. I have a Pinterest button on my browser and save articles I like, links to clothes or books I’m thinking of buying, ideas for gifts for people, etc. I don’t care what is on anyone else’s Pinterest.

It isn't really social media in the truest sense. I use it as a super curating tool for everything...recipes, cooking tips, home repair, art ideas and tips, shopping links, clothes, technology, and topics in my career. Everyone can use it for anything. If you organize it well, it is invaluable.

It's not about "crafts."

Mostly I use it to pin books I eventually want to read. My pintwins are usually librarians.

Also when i was doing a redecorating project my daughter and would use it as a shared idea board. When ever one of us found something we'd put it up and the other could see it without back and forth texting.

All the time. We are buying and renovating a home so that how I organize my ideas.

I lost pinterest. nyuck nyuck nyuck

Maybe I don’t follow the right people but I feel like Pinterest became really cluttered. Too much cheesy mommy/Mormon blogger content, gross “dump it” recipes, etc. I prefer Instagram.

Yes! Love it!

Yes, I like Pinterest! I definitely feel like I'm the lone holdout still on it among my friends and acquaintances -- no one I know still uses it. For me it's practical (pinning a link is so easy). But I also just find it a fun way to relax. Whenever I'm researching something house/fashion/beauty/food/travel/kid related, I run a search on Pinterest and I really enjoy just browsing through the pins and looking at the pretty photos or just pinning every link that looks promising. I have lots of boards, plus even sub-boards so that I can separate out, say "vegetarian recipes" from the rest of my recipes.

I feel like it's the only truly good social media app. I guess people could get competitive on it, but since most people don't post their own content, I'm not really sure how. I hate Facebook and am kind of over Instagram, but Pinterest is my happy place.

I never used Pinterest, and I’m not an organized person that’s really on top of this stuff, but you can save Instagram posts into categories. I did it once when I was looking at inspiration for a haircut so I could show my stylist.

I’ve known people to use something like Evernote as well.

yes, I use pinterest all the time. I like that it's the least "social" form of social media. I go back and revisit recipes all the time. I go so far as to have separate "dinner ideas" "breakfast" "drinks" "lunch ideas" etc. boards. I also have boards for specific projects - like, we redid our outdoor area last summer and I pinned a bunch of stuff on my "backyard" board and then went back and looked so I could put some of the ideas in action.

I use it to group together things I think I want to buy for a new season. So I can compare favorites. I use NYT Cooking for saving recipes and houzz for decorating ideas.

I spend time on instagram and on websites and have lots of ideas about food recipes, housecleaning tips, parenting ideas, kid activities, etc. How do you organize all these ideas? Do you actually revisit them?

My current system is ... just opening a new browser tab on my phone. So I pretty much always have hundreds of tabs running on my phone.