I don't "get" Pinterest.
08-09-2017, 09:04 PM
#42
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I've used Pinterest to share ideas with my girls. Recently we've used it to design quilts. I create a shared board and pin quilt patterns, fabric collections, color combinations, etc. They can comment and add suggestions. It works especially well with my daughter who lives in another state. And I also use the quilting designs for reference and inspiration. It's nice to have them all in one place. Yes there are dead ends, but I mostly pin for the pictures. Bookmarks are great but you lose them if your computer crashes (been there) or you get a new computer (done that). My pins are available on my computer, iPad, and iPhone, pretty much wherever I go. My color combinations board comes in handy when fabric shopping.
To each his own. I find Pinterest very useful.
To each his own. I find Pinterest very useful.
08-10-2017, 02:56 AM
#43
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Originally Posted by Watson
People seem to really like Pinterest, but I just find it frustrating.
I see something I like, so I click on it, expecting to see it bigger or perhaps be taken to a place where you get info on it and quite often you end up somewhere else entirely!
Or, it will say "Free pattern", so I click and I can't find anywhere that they offer a pattern. So I click on something else and suddenly I'm 3 pages away from my original search. It's like Alice in Wonderland going down the rabbit hole.
I just don't get it.
Is it just to look at pretty things? Or is there actual information to be had and I just don't know how?
Watson
I see something I like, so I click on it, expecting to see it bigger or perhaps be taken to a place where you get info on it and quite often you end up somewhere else entirely!
Or, it will say "Free pattern", so I click and I can't find anywhere that they offer a pattern. So I click on something else and suddenly I'm 3 pages away from my original search. It's like Alice in Wonderland going down the rabbit hole.
I just don't get it.
Is it just to look at pretty things? Or is there actual information to be had and I just don't know how?
Watson
08-10-2017, 06:20 AM
#45
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I don't seem to quite understand Pinterest either. I've also had problems on Craftsy. I'm not sure which website this was but yesterday I followed a link to download a free pattern. I clicked on the free pattern and a pop-up declared that the pattern was in my cart. But I couldn't seem to find my way to the cart to download the pattern.
08-10-2017, 06:30 AM
#46
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I don't like Pinterest. If & when I use it, it is only for inspiration/ideas. I have found very little use for it otherwise. It's frustrating to think you are going to find something that you are looking for only to find "nothing" in the end.
08-10-2017, 07:37 AM
#49
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Originally Posted by janjanq
I don't seem to quite understand Pinterest either. I've also had problems on Craftsy. I'm not sure which website this was but yesterday I followed a link to download a free pattern. I clicked on the free pattern and a pop-up declared that the pattern was in my cart. But I couldn't seem to find my way to the cart to download the pattern.
08-10-2017, 07:53 AM
#50
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Wow... so much negativity towards Pinterest. It sounds like most of it stems from a misunderstanding of what Pinterest is. It is NOT a free pattern site. It is a bulletin board. You "Pin" images you are "Interested" in = Pinterest. If someone posts a link to what they claim is a free pattern and it turns out to be a rabbit trail, get mad at the poster, not the format.
I find Pinterest highly useful for storing ideas and inspiration. So what if the links are dead, as long as I have the original picture I can go from there. And many "pins" do have live links to other places, to recipes, or to patterns. But you can't expect all to. Lots of them are just pictures from picture hosting sites such as Flickr.
It's really no different from Google images, except you can store the images you want to keep.
I find Pinterest highly useful for storing ideas and inspiration. So what if the links are dead, as long as I have the original picture I can go from there. And many "pins" do have live links to other places, to recipes, or to patterns. But you can't expect all to. Lots of them are just pictures from picture hosting sites such as Flickr.
It's really no different from Google images, except you can store the images you want to keep.
Last edited by sewbizgirl; 08-10-2017 at 07:55 AM.
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