If you would have asked me prior to this year what Pinterest was, I would have known it existed, but I didn't quite get the point. Pinning pictures onto a cyber bulletin board? Really? Why? Has society become so dependent on the interent and so easily distracted that we can find fun just browsing through pictures and pinning them on our boards. Well, in a word, yes.
I am now a newly indocrinated Pinterest junkie. Someone who went from three boards, with generic stuff on them to 24 boards with all sorts of pins in about three months. Yeah, I'm in deep. So, in a attempt to explain this phenomenon and also to justify my own time wasting activities on this site, I decided to blog about it.
The world has amassed a huge amount of pictures of just about anything you want a picture on. To be more precise, yes a picture is worth a thousand words. Pinterest is more than learning about someone's personality by viewing what pictures they find interesting and "pin worthy", but this is a chance to see pictures of things that, frankly, may have rested on the bottom of someones closest forever or on a back shelf in a library.
To my shame, I personally get a thrill when I see tons of people I've never met repinning pictures I share or start following one of my boards. It has absolutely NOTHING to do with me of course, just that I must pick nice pictures that people want to share. But it still feels good. And I think that's what this site is about. It feels good to look at nice pictures. It makes us feel good and a little more secure to see pictures of shocking things that may have happened to others, or makes us feel good to think about our favorite rock star or movie. Facebook, twitter, Pinterest, all have the same aim, to make its users feel good. Lately, Facebook has started to wear on me. Getting my belly full of too much politics, agendas and the like. On Pinterest you can just browse pretty pictures, pin the ones you like and move on. If a picture offends you, so what. You can move past it to a slew of others less objectionable.
To be completely honest, I started getting more interested in Pinterest because of Freddie Mercury. This man could quite possibly be one of the most photgraphed people I've ever seen, and I intend to get them all! Yes I do! It has become a competition. I look at other boards and see if they have more pins and I have to get more. Luckily Freddie liked to be photographed because I need pins baby!!
I, however, refuse to pin pictures snapped of him by the paparazzi when he was sick. That just makes me angry.
I actually would like to start a blog that goes along with Pinterest. The story behind the picture. I love to analyze pictures and wonder what was going on in that picture and what people were thinking. Maybe that is my next time killer. Who knows!
