Pinterest is a digital scrapbook for all things that interest people. It’s Facebook or Twitter for pictures, allowing you to create image scrapbook collections on just about any topic that takes your fancy.
Your Pinterest can be private and only accessible to you as a place where you horde images you like from the internet. Or you can share your Pinterest with others interested in the same topic.
It could be wedding dresses that you like, pics of classic cars, home furnishings, pics relating to a hobby. Just about anything your imagination can dream and wish to collect in one handy web-accessible location.
It’s also a great location to get inspired or creative, be it your travel plans, searching for home designs, recipes, or looking for fashion and fitness ideas. If Pinterest didn’t exist, someone would invent it as an essential lifestyle tool.
iOS gets a new widget
Pinterest announced that they were dropping their latest widget for iOS called “Interests.”
The widget for Apple fans means Pinners can select their top interests and have refreshed content delivered every day to their home screen.
Pinners will be able to choose from interests categorized as:
Beauty
Food
Home Decor
Fashion
Quotes
To take advantage of the feature, iOS users have to ensure they are using the latest iOS version.
Get inspired and creative with Pins from all over the world
Searchable
Save your ideas and interests
Collaborate with friends on a project
Pinterest Lens to capture ideas and images and find out more
Advanced audience insights
Direct messaging
Pinterest is a treasure chest of ideas and inspiration. The site is very searchable and will recommend images and trends you will be interested in.
It is very much tilted at lifestyle issues but is a great place to organize your ideas and thoughts in one location and share them with others. Pinterest says they have over 100 billion news ideas to explore for every aspect of your life. Literally, from what haircut might suit you to what you could cook for dinner.
With Pinterest on your smartphone, there’s no excuse for running out of ideas. If you have something on your mind, it’s guaranteed someone has already had the same thought.
As well as pinning your own images, you can also follow others who have similar interests.
It’s free
It’s more than just an image sharing service
Niche lifestyle interest
You can download the Pinterest app from Google Play and Apple’s App Store. It’s free to sign up using Gmail, another email service, or Facebook.
Once they activate your account, you can begin pinning images straight away, collaborate, and connect with others who share the same interests.
However, before you dive straight in, you should edit your profile within settings from the default profile info.
You can fine-tune your preferences to show recommendations only from selected feeds. Otherwise, you are likely to get a tsunami of images based on every pinboard you visit.
