Monday, February 20, 2012

Pinning for what reason?

There always seems to be new things to distract me.  The latest, Pinterest.  As best as I can describe it, Pinterest enables one to collect pictures (and their links) from around the internet.  Like poodles?  Pin a picture of your favorite on your board.  Recipe for croissants?  Pin the picture, which will eventually link back to the site with the recipe.

I've spent the day learning how to pin and access my and others' pin boards.  Basically, this is like cutting out pictures and putting them on a bulletin board.  What I haven't figured out is why I'm doing this.  If I didn't collect the pictures before, why now?  And a bigger question:  Why are people looking at what I've pinned?  And why on the earth are they "repinning" my pictures?    I hate to say this, but...

What's the point?