My latest obsession is Pinterest. Are you on it?
If you’re not familiar with Pinterest, yes, it’s yet another social network. However, unlike my dust-covered Google+ account, I’m finding great uses for it. It’s completely image-based. Whatever you see you can ‘like’ or ‘comment’ on (as with Facebook), but then you can also ‘re-pin’. This means pulling the image (and its associated web link) into a category of your choosing. You can also ‘pin’ things from various web sites as long as there’s an image or video associated with the link.
I’ve found that Pinterest is particularly great for finding projects (for you and your kids) and recipes (also for you and your kids). When a birthday rolls around I’ll actually have all of those cupcake ideas saved to a single place. This beats the “oh, I saw something in a magazine that I was going to do but I can’t remember what it was or which magazine” thing that always happens to me. In fact, so long as these magazines keep putting their awesome content up on the web, I’d be happy to let Pinterest take the place of their print counterparts. (Sorry, publishers!)
One thing Pinterest has made me realize is that I have seriously undervalued paint chips.
I’d love more people to follow, so let’s connect on Pinterest. You can find me here.
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