Oh Pinterest, How You've Reeled Me In

Remember when you were very young and you were given shapes and had to put them in the holes of the same shape? Well, you shouldn’t, unless you played with them when you were eleven. But, most of us have played with those little shape finders. Some kids were stared at by some guy  with a clipboard, clad in a long white jacket to determine how long it took you to put the circle block in the circle hole. If it took too long, then you were retarded. (Sorry, my word in my generation.) Regardless, we had to fit things where they belonged.

And now I am doing that again with an addiction called Pinterest.

Pinterest. It’s going to what gets me fired from my teaching job. I haven’t gone to Pinterest from school yet. But, I want to. But, for those of you who have not received your invitation yet, you are probably wondering, “Vickie, what exactly is a Pinterest?”  Hell, I don’t know how to explain it.

It’s like gathering and sorting and putting things in their places. Things we like. And we put them in little squares and rectangles. And then we give those little “boards” names, like “My Style” or “Bucket List.” You see, Pinterest is for pinning our interests. Hence, the name Pin terest.

Say you like cats. Well, there are cute little images of cats that other pinteresters (my word) find on the web and upload onto one of their little boards. And then someone might see it and smile and think, “I like that, and then you would re-pin it, which means steal it in a way. Someone is doing the work finding an image online and you can take it for your own little categorized board. And then maybe your friend likes that picture and takes it from you. Oh, they don’t take it, per se, but copy it. And it goes on and on. It’s all the rage.

Being that my explanation sucks, let me say that  lot of  well known people have pinterest. Martha Stewart, Ellen DeGeneres, and Maria Shriver, to name a few. Maria Shriver is now following me. Yeah, you can follow people if you like their boards. You can even see if someone repins one of your pins. Doesn’t this sound fun?

So, as mentioned so precisely, a board is where you put everything from one category. Here are some random boards that people have on their pinterest:

Recipes to Try       Travel           Furry Friends          Quotes      My Style           Christmas

Humor         Sweet Tooth        For the Birds   For the House         Products I Love       Fall

You can have as many boards as you want on Pinterest. Some people only have five. Some have hundreds and thousands of followers. As of today, I have 70 boards. I am following 74 people and I have 50 followers. And right now I need to wash clothes. But, here I am, writing a blog post on my wordpress addiction about my new Pinterest addiction. I’m so glad I don’t smoke or drink.

I do worry about myself when I look at some of my board titles. I have some “normal” boards, but then I have weird ones. I mean, I have one titled, “Ventriloquist Dummies Creep Me Out,” where I have repinned a bunch of disturbing scary wooden people.

“Nuns Scare Me” is another board. Because, well, they do scare me.

 

And then I followed it with some food. A board just for dips. “Dip It, Dip It Good.” I liked that title.

 

Here’s a list of some of my other boards. Well, just in case something may catch your eye. And then you could say, “Hey, Vickie likes that too!”

1. My Blog-Jumping in Mud Puddles

2. Wanderlust

3. I Love Central Park

4. Favorite Movies

5. Quotes and Written Stuff

6. My Fascinating People

7. Hang it On a Wall

8. Animals I Like

9. I Dont Think So…

10. History Dork

11. Funny

12. Bare Ware

13.When Pigs Fly

14. Saturday morning Cartoons

15 All Things Mendenhall

Yeah, I could go on for another 55 titles, but you can see my sampling and the things that “pinterest” me.  Don’t you want to be a pinterester too?

Katie Couric just pinned a bunch of pictures for one of her boards, “Best Advice Contributors.” Pretty interesting selection. Or perhaps I should say pinteresting.  She’s getting into it, I can tell.

All in all, pinterest is a lot of fun. I’ve tried new recipes and now know that I can use tootpaste on a pimple.

WordPress, please don’t be jealous. I have several categories just for you, “Photo’s For My Blog” and “Blogs I Follow.”  Writing is still my passion. But, pinterest is my obsession this month.

And that’s how easy it is to put a round peg in a square hole.

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