Pin What?

So one of my friends and one of my co-workers was talking the other day about this new website/social network they had signed up for called Pintrest. I had never heard of it before and became intrigued by the name of the site. Little did I know that it was an exclusive site and you had to be invited to join the site. There is a button to where you can "Request and invite."

I asked my friend Erin, who was already a member to send me an invite where I could check it out. After signing up. The user has the choice of logging in through facebook or twitter and then changing the login preferences after that.

Basically all Pintrest is, is an internet cork-board or multiple cork-board where users follow each other and pin things to these boards of things that interest them. Users search through pictures and search through pictures and post them on these boards and it uploads them for other followers to see what you have pinned to your boards. The above image is a screen shot I took of a music search I did and some of the images that popped up.

Within just a few days of having Pintrest I already had quite a few of my facebook friends following me on Pintrest even though I had not "pinned" anything on there. I had just mainly looked around and checked out the site to see what it was all about. It seemed like a normal google search but just a way you could save the images with out wasting hard drive space. I think I would use it again, I just wouldn't spend as much time on it as I do facebook and twitter.