Pinterest

http://pinterest.com/aprilnicole/

I don’t have too much…I mostly pin clothes for sewing inspiration and crafts etc, but i do have a couple boards for school…

I do enjoy pinterest – here is my pin page or whatever LOL

http://pinterest.com/georgiaberry/

I followed you, Christine!

Sue, pinterest is almost a bookmarking site – when you are browsing around online and see a picture that intrigues you, you can “pin” it through a little button that you load on your browser – a pinmarklet, I think they call it.  Anyway, the picture will give you a reminder of the thing you liked and will link back to it.  The cool part is that your pins get fed into the pin stream, as it were, and others can be inspired by the things you took note of, and you can do the same.  You can follow the pins of people with like interests and you will find more things you like.

I like it more the more I use it.  I tend to read blogs like “One Pretty Thing” that aggregate content for me so I can do the thing I like (drool over craft projects LOL) but not waste so much time surfing craft blogs.  Pinterest is like a ramped up version of that.  I am now developing some pinterest boards to link to from my small farm site – I am doing a “for the winter garden” board that I hope my customers who are on pinterest will want to follow, and I can do more for each season as they come.  I can do veggie recipe boards, too, and link to them from my blog.  Anyway, I think Pinterest is a good thing – but it can become a time waster like anything online if you do not manage yourself!

Tristan you have to request an invite or I can send you one (much quicker than requesting one which can take up to two weeks)  PM me your email if you want me to send you an invite

I guess I don’t remember the specifics of signing up – I know that I had to “request an invite” and then I got a link in an email – just to see what would happen I logged out and then logged back in and I saw three prompts – log in with facebook, log in with twitter, log in with pinterest account.  I logged in with pinterest account, so I must not have originally logged in with fb or twitter?  I can’t imagine that I did because I NEVER log in with fb to anything.  Maybe twitter.  But I did link to my fb acct on pinterest and then my fb friends also on pinterest popped up and now we follow each other, so that was kind of convenient.

If you had to do one or the other, twitter is by far the better choice LOL as it is totally inconsequential if you make a twitter account.  You don’t have to use your real name but you should use an email you can check if you need to.