It started innocently enough: someone mentioned some cool site for bookmarking called Pinterest. I checked it out, but you needed an invite, so I decided not to even bother sign up. But it kept popping up and then finally one of my WCS team mates really raved about it, then another one sent me an invite and I was hooked.
At first I was just stepping out on my beloved Tumblr,(remember how I waxed poetic about it last year?) because I didn't want to lose the things I had bookmarked there, and there was no easy way to transfer them over. But when I saw the organisational potential I found myself spending more and more time on Pinterest, and less and less with that other one.
I love the fact that I can have a separate board for each interest, it makes it so much easier to find things later, and maybe I am just extrapolating, but I have actually gone back and done a bunch of projects, which never seemed to happen when I was using Tumblr. Pinterest is how I kept track of all my ideas for Kieran's party, and then how I was able to narrow it down to the ones I wanted to use.
The main con I have found so far is the lack of ease of navigation. Unlike Tumblr, when I repin something from within the site I don't get bounced back to where I was originally. This means I emd up with a ridiculously large amount of open tabs, as I scroll through and find things I like. But I can deal with it. The site developers are constantly making improvements, so hopefully this is something they will address eventually.
As with Tumblr the real power of the site comes in when you start following others and seeing all the pretty things they post, but you can also use their pinmarklet to add things from external sites.They make it really easy to find people too, since you can sign in with your Facebook account and add your friends from there. So if you're already on, feel free to follow me. If you'd like an invite I'd be happy to send you one (I have six available right now). Just let me know in the comments or by e-mail and I will hook you up!
