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Does anyone here is use Pinterest? I tried it last night and I will be honest I don't "get it". What am I suppose to be doing besides repin pictures from people who follow me?

Can someone offer me a quick tutorial of how I am suppose to add outside of my followers (because honestly their stuff is not all that Pinteresting).

Ha ha. I had the same problem. Hope someone can tell us. I have a friend who invited me to join but I just can't figure it out.

I joined but I don't get it either. I now have a lot of followers watching me do absolutely nothing :p

I don't know what I'm doing either!! lol
My daughter is going to show and explain it to me tonight...I know you pin things that you like...maybe for inspiration on how to do things? I know they have some good recipes on there...not sure what else your supposed to do though! lol

Will you come back and give us lessons please LOL. I am so GLAD I am not the only one who isn't quite sure why I have to be a member of Pinterest.

It might be a fun way to save items I like when web surfing but I can't figure out how to pin those items

I push "repin" and it does nothing :rolleyes::cool::confused:

Had that issue also and realized I had to "confirm repin" which takes a long time to appear.

Wow don't sound like it is very user friendly.

I went and looked at it a while back...looked to confusing for me:D I didn't join..let me know if ya'll figure it out and that it is something worthwhile.

Great place to share recipes lots of home ideas. I just got it last week and still figuring it out. I do know when you pin something you put it into a category. Then it will be in your profile. So it will take you to that page when you pin it. Then when on that page hit the category you want it in and hit repin.

I look at Pinterest like an online filing system for things that interest you. I do a lot of DIY things, so I spend a lot of time in crafts and DIY. Within your profile you set up catagories. I set up one for "DIY" that way, when I find something on Pinterest I may want to make or do later I can then easily find it in my profile under DIY. It saves my old aged mind from having to remember what it was called, and where it was that I seen it and having to go find it again. We have also been doing some redecorating so I have different catagories set up for different rooms I am working on and when I find something I'd like for my kitchen, I repin it to my kitchen catagory.


Honestly, I don't really get the idea of having friends follow you though. Except that maybe they will find something that you too might like, but I see it more of a personal filing system of ideas and inspiration. That's the readers digest condensed version. LOL

I love Pinterest!!! I'm handy and LOVE DIY PROJECTS...but I'm not very creative, so can never come up with ideas myself. But on Pinterest people post their ideas and things they come across...and boom...I've got ideas for DIY projects :D

Now if only I could find something to motivate me to finish projects I start :rolleyes:

Can you give a little tutorial for us that are just getting started? Any help would be appreciated!

It's just like here on YT, you browse the PINS (threads) and see what interests you and then you can comment on them, and/or like them so it reflects your style on your profile, and/or you can pin them to add to your boards for your own future reference and so you can share cool things/ideas with your followers.

But, just like YT, it works best when everyone contributes by starting your own PIN (thread) by uploading something interesting that you come across. The more that is shared, the more there is to browse :)

That is a great description, thanks.

Now let me ask, do I need to upload things that interest me or can I pin something like example a recipe from Allfoods.com? If can just pin it how do I add a pin? Do I need to use Pinterest as my web broweser (this is the part that is confusing me, it seems I can only pin things that others have already pinned, why can't I start a new pin).

On the very top line there is "Add +".

Click on it and it gives you the option of uploading from your puter under "Upload a Pin" or posting a website address under "Add a Pin" (or you can create a new board under "Create a Board").

So, click on "Add +" on the top line, then click on "Add a Pin" and you will see the highlighted area to paste the website for a specific recipe on Allfoods.com.

Hope this helps :)

I LOVE Pinterest!!!! I have found so many interesting tutorials. I will admit when I first started it was very confusing lol not user friendly at all. but once u get the hang of it and add the pin button to your browser it is awesome :)

I'm glad you made this thread, because I had absolutely no clue how to work pinterest! My friend talked me into joining and she made it sound all.... unconfusing. But when I tried doing things for myself it was a total bust. This thread is awsome!

Okay now for my second question, how do add the pin button to my browser? I think that is something huge I am missing.

I'm with you on the huge missing link

Follow the same path as before:

Click on "Add +" at the very top of the page. Right above the "Add a Pin", "Upload a Pin", "Create a Board" selections, is a line that states "Pin images from any website as you browse the web with the "Pin It" button." click on where it says "Pin It" in that line. It takes you to a page and tells you exactly what to do. Right click the PIN IT on that new page and click on "Add to Favorites" scroll down and select your Favorites Bar, and it adds it right to your favorites bar. Then whenever you are on a page you click the PIN IT icon and it will post to Pinterest.

could not have said it better :) :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Thank you, thank you and THANK YOU!!! This may change my opinion (will let you know). KazzyK810 just gave me a lightbulb moment:bulb:

Okay that was a HUGE missing link for me, I added the Pin It button and now I am adding things.

So far I have added two Dainty Dawgs.

Yay!!! :)

Not sure if the 'followers' thing was really addressed. When you invite friends they become followers. If you click on the red Pinterest sign at the top of the page it will show you everything that your followers and people that you choose to follow have pinned for a period of time. The more followers and people you are following that you have the more ideas you see. You may choose to just follow certain boards from certain people as well, for example recipes, or DIY. You can also look at the area under the red Pinterest sign and choose an area that interests you from the 'everything' drop down box. Hover over the Everything sign and the box will drop down showing different categories that you can explore. Sometimes you will find someone that has lots of ideas pinned that you really like and you can choose to follow that person as well, again seeing the items that they pin. You can then repin those ideas that interest you onto one of you 'boards' or categories that you set up. To see your boards go to your profile picture, hover on it and the drop down menu will show you a 'boards' option. You can also set up a new board when repinning an item if you don't currently have a board you think the idea fits easily into. Hope this is clear....whew!

I am having the same issue.I "repin" ad nothing happens.How am I supposed to confirm the repin??? Also, I have Firefox, and I keep getting a "forbidden" message which doesnt allow me to pin anything....I feels so stupid wanting to pin and end up saving the ideas in my computer :(

I love Pinterest! I started by only re-pinning things other people had. If the people you follow aren't that "pinteresting" (ha!), try just browsing "Everything".

I use Internet Explorer, and Pinterest crashes my browser ALL the time. If you have a slow computer, it may just take forever to pin... Or maybe the browser crashed. If you have a smart phone, the Pinterest app is pretty good -- MUCH faster, and doesn't crash. I still get a lot of messages saying, "oops, something went wrong!", but it still pins stuff, so yeah.

If you post the error message you're getting, we can try and resolve it for you. It sounds like a security setting.

I only recently started adding my own pins. I use the little IE addin that adds a "Pin It!" Button to the toolbar. I am redecorating, so I pinned a bunch of furniture I was looking at from different sites.

I really love Pinterest for three things: first, it really helped me develop my personal style, because after a few months I could look back on everything I pinned, and recognize patterns. I was having an extremely hard time putting a "look" together for my place, and I realized it's because I like several different styles that don't go together at all.

Second, it has really good tips. I now know what all those mysterious icons on clothes tags mean! They actually are information about how to clean the item, not just random little cartoons!

Third, there are a lot of cute, funny animal pictures. I've repinned a bunch, and whenever I need a lift, I go review my collection. :)

The error message is 502.Already tried with another browser and still the same

Can you copy and paste the full text of the error?