Pinterest

So who all has heard of Pinterest?

Most of you have, and for the few who haven't here's a quick breakdown:

Pinterest is an image-based, bookmarks-sharing, social media platform.

To break that down, Pinterest allows you to graphically catalogue your favourites while also giving you a platform from which to discover new related material and interests. It also allows you to share your thoughts and comments on these materials with friends and followers.

It's like having a set of bulletin boards that the world can see... in as organized a fashion as you see fit.

I personally love Pinterest, and here's why:

1. Follow as much or as little as you want
• whether you have a focused interest on planes or a broad interest in everything that flies, Pinterest will let you follow it
2. Custom categorization
• rather than using just a system of messy tags or labels Pinterest lets you pin things to different boards (folders, basically) so you can quickly find that one favourite
3. They use comments as labels
• ever wanted the program to just know what labels and tags you need for a post? Pinterest does. Anything in your main comment is used as a tag for the image, 
4. Your home page is customized
• Everything that shows up on your home page comes from the boards you are following. Don't like bears? Don't follow any bear boards and the chances of seeing one is slim.
5. Integration with Twitter, Facebook and Google+
• As is standard for this day and age, Pinterest seamlessly integrates with the major social medias to allow you to post to them from within Pinterest itself.
6. Mobile deice support
• Pinterest is even easier to use on a mobile device, with a simple press and hold mechanic to pin things.
7. Pin your own content
• Pintrest makes it easy to pin new content by introducing a browser widget that will let you select images from the page you are on.
8. Simple layout
• Pinterest doesn't clutter up your screen with boxes and boxes of text or extraneous information. Instead it has a pleasing waterfall layout of the images in your feed, with one box the the left helping you find friends, and your information in a banner at the top.
9. Simple usage
• Hover over an image to select to pin, send or heart it. Pinning it opens a box over everything (that gets greyed out) to select where to pin it. and gives you the option of posting to Facebook. It then opens up a suggested board to follow, making it easy to follow related boards.
10. Easy to find new content
• In addition to the suggested board that pops up after pinning an image, you can also find related content by clicking on the image. Scrolling down you will see boards that contain that image, as well as other related pins. You can also look within categories, using the tripple bar icon in the upper left.
11. See what's popular!
• For those who like to see what is trending Pinterest makes this easy by having a 'Popular' section. This shows you what is being repinned the most!

Those are some of the reasons I adore Pinterest. What're yours?

Feel free to follow me on Pinterest!