Pintrest is a newly popular website that was created to organize the intrests of users and compose a personal account that makes life a little bit easier. Though the website was first started in December, 2009 by a company called Cold Brew Labs, the website has just now gained widespread attraction. Pintrest’s popularity has grown and now the website has an app on the iPhone, and a mobile website. This new website has become successful very quickly in the recent years, and is now becoming a popular trend among many people.
Pintrest is fairly easy to use for newcomers. First, each person must request and invitation which will then be sent via email to whomever is trying to make an account. Once the invitation is received, an account is set up and ready to use. On Pintrest, each user starts out with five pin boards that can be used for whatever topic the user desires. However, the user must choose one category for each pin board. Once the user names the pin board they can begin to look for items on pintrest that fall under that category. If they find something they like they can simply pin it and is automatically pinned to their specific board, that can be edited at any time. Boards can also be shared, which gives other people have the ability to edit users’ boards.
Pintrest has reached a high growing popularity, but has mostly piqued the interest of women. They use it for many different reasons such as wedding planning, recipes, fashion, and simple projects for the house. It is a good tool to keep all of their ideas organized, and in one place. With the website’s capability of being shared, many ideas and projects have been spread and made easy to obtain. Many women of all ages find Pintrest to be a viable resource for many different needs.
StumbleUpon is a website that is similar to Pintrest; however it is not as popular. StumbleUpon’s downfall may be its cluttered atmosphere. Pintrest puts each topic on a separate board, whereas StumbleUpon puts all of your interests on one long list in no specific order. Although their basic goal of finding items or websites that interest the user is the same, Pintrest does this in a more orderly fashion. In turn, Pintrest attracts older users, as well as younger users. Adults may use it to plan events, and keep themselves organized, while teenagers use it to find new trends and the latest attractions, but their goal is the same- being able to find topics that interest them.
Pintrest is becoming the new increasingly loved website. With its immediate success, it is hard to deny that it will become even more popular as word spreads. Pintrest will not be leaving the social network scene anytime soon. Being easily marketable to people of all walks of life it appears this new website will never have a lack of users.
