As I am 32 and a mom, I shun all things hip until they’ve been around a good long time and are no longer cool, especially in the social media field. Example: Facebook. I didn’t join that thing until 70-year-olds were creating Bridge Club pages to laugh about their last meeting.
So of course I’ve spurned Pinterest for a couple of very good reasons, the most important being that it would be a huge time suck for me. Looking at what my clever real-life friends and creative people I don’t know in person have pinned could easily occupy me for hours. If I don’t watch myself, I am easily occupied for hours reading blogs of people I do not know and am not really interested in.
Yet right now we are in the midst of transition in the Fox Household. G is soon to move into Baby Chickadee’s room; Baby Chickadee and Little Missy move into mine and Hubby’s room; Hubby and I will move into G and Little Missy’s room. It’s a giant switcheroo. And when we move the children I’d like their rooms to be adorable. The nursery is currently decorated quite well, but G and Little Missy’s room was thrown together and I want their new rooms to be colorful and full of life.
Needing inspiration, I’ve been reading Apartment Therapy and Ohdeedoh anytime I get the chance. Wanting to go back later and show Hubby specific rooms and specific ideas I joined Pinterest. And I’ve been vigilant in not looking at others’ boards, no matter how clever they are. So far it has not been a huge time suck.
But here’s what gets me: people I have never met are re-pinning my stuff. How did they find me? If my boards were super interesting, cultivated with things not readily to be seen, I could understand how they might stumble upon me. But my finds are not all that enthralling. So how did people I’ve never met find my stuff?
The internet is a weird thing.
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Ahhhh… Pinterest is the jam! People repin your stuff because when you pin something it goes on the “everything” board where people can just scroll through what people have been pinning. So if someone sees something they like they will pin it, regardless of who pinned it.
Anyway… can’t wait to see the big switcheroo!