Quick! Name the most perplexing social site you can think of. If you are a dude, it is probably Pinterest. Pinterest is a social network, like everything else one talks about on the internet nowadays. It’s “a virtual pinboard” that “allows you to organise and share all the beautiful things you find on the web.”
It is also mostly used by women who are between the ages of 28 and 34, according to their Compete demographics from like six months ago, which pegged 54 per cent of its users as women — but it’s probably even higher now, based on anecdotal evidence.
In other words, it’s Tumblr for ladies*.
Here’s what it looked like when we tried to discuss it at work.
Sam B. I don’t get it at all
matt it’s like rarified tumblr
Barrett you’ve got those pinterest pheromones
Mat H. matt it is for ladies
matt like if you distilled a blog down
you’d get a tumblr
and if you distilled tumblr, you’d get pinterest
like how deep does the rabbit hole go
Sam B. how do I even add things
this is so confusing
Casey C. am i dumb for not knowing pinterest
Kristen P. Pinerest is awesome actually
Mat H. SEE!
SEE!
Sam B. how do I follow you kristen
will you pin me kristen
But no, really.
*It’s OK, I can say things, I have a degree in ladies. (No, really.)
i think tumblr is the de facto blog source, while it's a toss up between pinterst and Juxtapost.com for social discovery. One has lots of members the other has a better user experience.
Can we therefore have a site dedicated to reaffirming women's fear that men think about nothing but alcohol and porn?
Pinterest is a good solution for all those people who just use tumblr to 'reblog' other tumblrs.