Pinterest has CHANGED (again)

This week my Pinterest account has a new feature.  When you make a pin, a window pops up that lists another board where the pin is featured.  You then have the opportunity to "follow" that board.

At first, I liked the idea, and pushed the button to follow several new boards.  If you follow the featured board, the next time you pin the same picture, it will give you yet another board that shares that particular pin.

I'm not sure how many times I've decided to follow someone in one short week.  But from my feed, I think it's a lot!  I need to select a wider variety of boards to follow.  I'm up to my eyeballs in flower pictures.  Not that I mind.  I LOVE flowers.  But I like to look at a wider diversity of pictures.  :)

The other thing about this new feature is there is no
way to bypass it.  I'm learning to be patient, as the window stays open for about 5 seconds.  It seems like a long time when I'm impatient, and it tends to make me mad.  So I'm using it as another tool to remind me to stay calm, breath deep, and let go.  :)

Guess other people are pushing the button to add ME to their feed, because I now have 840 people following me.  That's up from 660 last week!!

I'm also sporting 184 boards, and 23,736 pins.

Pinterest is back as my #1 addiction!

http://pinterest.com/pinterest4jan/

Group Boards

I've been invited to join a couple of group boards.  This is new to me, but something I'm finding enjoyable, and is another source for pins!

The first board is titled "Color Our World"
http://pinterest.com/grandok/color-our-world/
and contains some wonderful, vivid colors and subjects.

Next, I was invited to join a board titled "Olympics"
http://pinterest.com/grandok/olympics
Today I got this image off Facebook, and have to publish it so I can pin it to the board.  :)   Hope everyone has a sense of humor.

Changing My Ways

I'm always looking for things to pin to my various boards.

Facebook has some great photos posted, but we are unable to pin directly from FB.  I've learned to download the photo onto my desktop.  But I have to post the picture to a website in order to pin it.

Guess it's time to get an account with Pisca or Shutterfly or one of the other photo account services.

Just one more thing I have to find time to research.  Then it's one more login I have to remember along with the password.  I hate that passwords have become so complex.  I need a memory boost just to remember all the various passwords!  :)

Meanwhile, I want to pin these photos, so I'm publishing them here so I can get them onto my Flutter-By's board.
http://pinterest.com/pinterest4jan/flutter-by-s/

23,342 photos on 183 boards with 669 followers

Unpinned

Yesterday I got two (2) letters from the Pinterest Crew saying they had to remove a picture I had posted because the owner of the photo didn't want it posted.  They told me this was an unusual request, that most people are happy to let their photos go out into the world, with the proper credit.

So, I opened the file to see the offending photos.  I expected to find wonderful photos of faraway places, taken while someone was on vacation.  One was a very ordinary picture of a flower.  The other photo was of a bird.

Wow.  Now I'm starting to take seriously that business about crediting photos.  So far, most all my pins are from pictures I've seen that others have pinned.  A few times, I've tried to click through to the original pin to see the credit info, but haven't been too successful.

Which doesn't bother me, really.  I'm not trying to sell anything, or make money from the labor of others.  My boards are for MY entertainment.  I like to look at them.  They make me happy.  In my heart, I'm so grateful to the people that have taken such great photographs.  Otherwise I'd not get to see most of these places or things or events.  I'm happy to share my photos.  Trouble is, my photos are ordinary.  I keep trying though.  One day I might just capture a moment that makes others gasp or smile or sigh.  And I'll be happy for it to go out into the world, as long as no one is selling it, or making money off it, or claiming the credit for capturing it.

By the way, I took these two photos!

Followers and Following

Today I opened the e-mail account associated with my Pinterest account, and found I had dozens of e-mails from Pinterest.

I opened one to find that someone had chosen to follow one of my boards.

It was flattering.  The e-mail asked if I wanted to follow the person back.  So, I clicked on their account and spend some time looking.  I pinned a couple of pictures, decided to follow a couple of boards.  Then I deleted the e-mail.

There were DOZENS of these e-mails.  After several hours, I'd only accessed maybe one dozen of the e-mails.  This will keep me busy for weeks!

It is a treasure chest of new pins!!  Now I'm busy looking at the pins of others, as well as my own pins.  If it makes me happy (and it does) then I don't count it as time lost, but as time well spent!

Thanks everyone that is following me, and Thanks to those that I'm following.
It's a win/win.

My Introduction to Pinterest

My addiction began over the Thanksgiving Holiday, 2011. My cousin, Kelli, who is always on the forefront of new ideas, had posted on Facebook that she was trying out Pinterest and did anyone want an invitation.

I was on a 4 day vacation from work, so I thought "Why not. Let's see what this is."

Being somewhat obsessive, I actually READ some directions! I spent some time looking at what you can do, what others have done, and some guidelines for how to proceed.

Then I created an account and signed on.

Within moments, I was hooked. Such lovely images to pin. Repin. I do very little actual pinning, as you have to have your own photos on the internet, and I haven't done that yet. So, my pins are mostly the pins of others.

I created a couple of boards, as the photos soon needed organization.

In the beginning, I probably didn't look in every day.

That was Then. This is Now.
http://pinterest.com/pinterest4jan/
Currently I have 15,000 pins, 120 boards, and my imagination has only begun to see the fun I'm going to have.

So, YES, it's officially an ADDICTION. But I'm happily hooked!