Saturday, 15 March 2014

My interest in Pinterst

First off I would very much like to apologize for the title of this post but I thought it was funny so leave me alone.
Recently on of the sites I have been spending and increasing large amount of my internet time on it Pinterest!
Many people will already be familiar with this site and understand what I mean. But for those of you who don't, Pinterest is somewhere where you can "pin" pictures to certain boards.
For example this is my account.

My Pinterest account 
I have boards that range from things things such as hair and beauty to things for waaaaaaaay into the future like the wedding pin board. (It's sad, I know, don't judge me). It means that unless I decide to terminate my account or something happens to the website it will always be there, so in 10, 15 years I can return and I won't have lost all my ideas and likes.
It helps me to sort my ideas and it allows me to organise all the pictures I see into specific categories for later use and so that I can find them quickly and easily instead of searching through my files on my computer. Another quick example. This is my board for everything hair related.

My hair pin board
I can upload pictures (and recently Gifs) with text underneath and links to a website with possible extra information in regards to the pictures, a tutorial maybe?
Because this is online it also means that I no longer need to save the files to my computer, thus freeing up space for more important things such as work. I found it especial useful as I have several devices which I like to save pictures to, I can put them all on here so I don't have some on one computer, some on my phone, some on the desktop, no, everything is now in one place.
It's helped my clear up the clutter on my desktop and is effectively an online scrapbook, or a pin board!
Scrolling though tumblr I no longer need to like things because I can put them here, it also means i can still keep the things I like but that don't fit my blog type.
So what are your thoughts on Pinterest? Do you have an account? What kind of boards do you have?
Let me know in the comments below!!
You can see my Pinboards here -----> User:FashionistaFails