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"Very Pinterest-ink. But stupid."
Jan. 18th, 2015 12:31 pmMaybe I'm the stupid one. There are just platforms on Teh Interwebs that I just don't get, despite the best efforts of good and intelligent people to splain them to me. Tumblr will forever be one of them: Emily's had one, others link to it regularly, but it doesn't seem to have the same give-and-take of posting/responding that I recognise on news sites, LJ, even Facebook and Twitter (for all the latter's brevity and @#code-iness). You see something, but you can't say something, other than to link to it.
This call for help, though, is more about something seemingly newer, called Pinterest. I know it's photo-based, but not in the same way that something like Flickr is. Eleanor's explored it more than I have, and found it frustrating for what she was looking for: Pinterest's "boards" are the basic currency of ideas, and for subjects involving celebrities and other pop-culture things those boards can be incredibly specific. But her interest is in pursuing her renewed talent in knitting and fiber art, and that leads her into a largely undivided board-ery that's very heavy on scarves and sweaters and makes the bigger and more eclectic projects much harder to find.
Me? I just find it hard to glom on to occasionally interesting stuff.
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Occasionally, I'll google something that pops into my head, and the image search will bring back something that's been Pinned. Such was the case this morning: I got on one of my rapid rides down the Stream of Consciousness, going from somebody mentioning Cards Against Humanity (which looks like fun but isn't it really just a riff on Madlibs?). to remembering something about Monopoly, to, finally, looking for a 70s-era National Lampoon issue spoofing the latter game which I once owned (and which I still have parts of in our Monopoly board).
Ultimately, I was able to find and preserve the images of what I was looking for; they'll get their own post here sometime soon. But the best source for them was a Pinterest link, and therein came the problem. As soon as I clicked the first of the images, Pinterest insisted on me joining up, or at least enabling their app to do all sorts of privacy-raiding stuff with my Facebook account:
Mmmmmkay. My first thought: workaround. So I obtained a handy public login from a well-known aggregator of such things, and Pinterest indeed let me in, but not without, then, getting this:
X'ing out that second box enabled me to view, and save, each of the images, but the drill repeated itself each of the seven times I returned to the well to do this.
And so, dear readers, I ask my simple questions:
- Is all this bother worth it for the stuff you will get?
- How easy is it to find such stuff, and to have others find any stuff you care to pin?
- How annoying are they if you do sign up?
And.... GO.
This call for help, though, is more about something seemingly newer, called Pinterest. I know it's photo-based, but not in the same way that something like Flickr is. Eleanor's explored it more than I have, and found it frustrating for what she was looking for: Pinterest's "boards" are the basic currency of ideas, and for subjects involving celebrities and other pop-culture things those boards can be incredibly specific. But her interest is in pursuing her renewed talent in knitting and fiber art, and that leads her into a largely undivided board-ery that's very heavy on scarves and sweaters and makes the bigger and more eclectic projects much harder to find.
Me? I just find it hard to glom on to occasionally interesting stuff.
----
Occasionally, I'll google something that pops into my head, and the image search will bring back something that's been Pinned. Such was the case this morning: I got on one of my rapid rides down the Stream of Consciousness, going from somebody mentioning Cards Against Humanity (which looks like fun but isn't it really just a riff on Madlibs?). to remembering something about Monopoly, to, finally, looking for a 70s-era National Lampoon issue spoofing the latter game which I once owned (and which I still have parts of in our Monopoly board).
Ultimately, I was able to find and preserve the images of what I was looking for; they'll get their own post here sometime soon. But the best source for them was a Pinterest link, and therein came the problem. As soon as I clicked the first of the images, Pinterest insisted on me joining up, or at least enabling their app to do all sorts of privacy-raiding stuff with my Facebook account:
Mmmmmkay. My first thought: workaround. So I obtained a handy public login from a well-known aggregator of such things, and Pinterest indeed let me in, but not without, then, getting this:
X'ing out that second box enabled me to view, and save, each of the images, but the drill repeated itself each of the seven times I returned to the well to do this.
And so, dear readers, I ask my simple questions:
- Is all this bother worth it for the stuff you will get?
- How easy is it to find such stuff, and to have others find any stuff you care to pin?
- How annoying are they if you do sign up?
And.... GO.