Pinterest (time waster, or decent info collector)

[Winnow]

I came across Pinterest a few months back and it didn't seem interesting to me. It's a constant stream of "pinned" images, videos, websites, etc of what people find interesting.

Pinterest does one thing very well. It is extremely easy to setup folders/categories of things you want to collect items of interest in and it has an excellent "pin this" java button you can place on your toolbar of just as a link in your favorites. Anytime you come across something on the net you like (visually, or otherwise), you can click the pin button and it presents you with a graphic list of the images on that web page for you to select what image you wish to "pin"

Now, the front page of Pinterest is pretty much a random streaming of crap people are pinning. That seems like a huge time waster but I found this site useful as a place to hold things I like, mostly images, but I also linked some audiobooks, etc., and also linked some videos from upcoming games that make it easy to have friends view. Instead of linking various youtube videos, web sites, etc. you can just link to your pinterest pinboard.

Here's my pin board:

https://pinterest.com/justafad/

That will give you and idea of the setup.

one thing people on this board might use it for is linking images. Hotlinks go down or are blocked on the net sometimes but when you "pin" an image, pinterest stores a copy of the image while also providing a link to the original site. So, if the original site blocks hotlinking, the image won't "red-x" since you first pin it to one of your pinterest folders. I used that method for pinning the "iGoggles" image I posted earlier on the iPad thread. If you go to the actual link here, click on the image and it will take you to where I found it. I setup the "Holding Tank" category to put random crap in that I don't know what to do with or want to show a friend, making it easy to access.

Overall, Pinterest seems like a time waster in general but there are some interesting pin boards people have put up.

This one is pretty cool for example:

https://pinterest.com/yoch/place/

If you think of Pinterest like an organizer, similar to Evernote or Springpad, it becomes useful.

For example, if you were researching a new PC build. As you comb the net for parts, you can pin them to your PC Build folder. Something like this:

https://pinterest.com/pattulus/audio-gear/

While the above is just a collection of audio gear, the same could be done for anything with automatic links built in to take you back to the original site you found the items.

Another example is my Audiobook recommendation folder:

http://pinterest.com/justafad/audiobook ... endations/

Books I found interesting. I just went to Audible.com and searched for the books, linking images from Audible makes it easy for someone to sample the book and get more info on it. Instead of having to tell someone links, etc. I just need to remember the link: http://pinterest.com/justafad/ and I can tell them to go to the audiobook recommendation folder, etc. Same strategy could be used for most things, movies, music, etc.

I just started playing around with it so don't have much up, and really it's not meant as a site people go to, more for my personal collection of stuff I can access quickly.

Pinterest is invite only right now. You can sign up on their main page and it takes about a week or so right now to get an invite. I can send out invites to email addresses so if you want one, just PM me and I'll send an invite. You need a facebook or twitter account to sign up after getting the invite but right after you sign up, you can choose to "unlink" your facebook or twitter account, and even change your name. Mine's Winnow Papagiorgio, because it's the fake facebook site I set up awhile back to use whenever facebook is required for something. I can change that name, and even change "justafad" as my pinterest website if I want to which Pinterest setup asked you to create.

[miir]

I didn't know you had a vagina, Winnow.

[Winnow]

I didn't know you had a vagina, Winnow.

Jealous?

[Winnow]

BTW, there's also "Snatchly" which is a Pinterest rip-off site for pr0n:

http://www.snatchly.com/snatches/popular ***NWS***

but getting back to Pinterest:

Pinterest hit ten million monthly unique visitors faster than any other website.

Anyway, they key is it's a very easy way to organize web stuff for you own use.

[Funkmasterr]

I think it's fucking dumb, and I think Facebook should add a feature to block any and all posts related to it. Pretty much all women I see using it on Facebook.

[Winnow]

I think it's fucking dumb, and I think Facebook should add a feature to block any and all posts related to it. Pretty much all women I see using it on Facebook.

I agree. fuck Facebook. (and twitter). ATM, a Facebook or Twitter acct is required to sign up. I unlinked that Facebook crap immediately. I find it useful for personal use, not spamming the world with 99.9 percent crap others don't care about.

[Lynks]

Personal use? Like anime girls? You're a fucking lonely creep.

[Winnow]

Personal use? Like anime girls? You're a fucking lonely creep.

damn, there's some seriously uptight people here! Don't click on Snatcly link up there, you might have a heart attack and die. (hopefully)

[Fairweather Pure]

My wife likes the hobby one, along with every single woman I work with.

I'll check the porn one out later but at first glance it just looks like pics and gifs? Idon't really understand the point with a simple viewing.

[Winnow]

My wife likes the hobby one, along with every single woman I work with.

I'll check the porn one out later but at first glance it just looks like pics and gifs? Idon't really understand the point with a simple viewing.

I don't see the point either (in the pron version) unless you're just bored and want some quick random porn images to browse.

As for Pinterest, depending on your hobby, you could possibly follow enough people that have similar interests to maybe get some ideas by clicking the "followed" link instead of the mainstream Pinterest flow of random things. I still have only found collecting things for myself to hotlink as I described above or just gather at one location to make it easier for a friend to check out a video or website, etc. I'm going to see how it works out for my PC build I'll be starting to research soon.

[Fairweather Pure]

My wife has about 2 dozen hobbies that rotate from active to inactive through the course of a year. She has enough stuff to start her own Hobby Lobby and I'm not even kidding. She gets lots of ideas from that site. Unfortunately, she also aquires ever more hobbies as well!

[Winnow]

Rock Climbing (I would never voluntarily do this, especially free climbing)

http://pinterest.com/billshattuck/climbing/

The always interesting Chalk Art:

http://pinterest.com/billshattuck/chalk-art/

Came upon the the above two because the guy repinned my Tesla Audiobook and I wanted to see what Tesla stuff he had. Nice pics/links.

http://pinterest.com/billshattuck/nikola-tesla/



Don't know about you but negative edge pools look so cool to me.