Pinterest has garnered the attraction of millions of people in less than two years.
The social media website was launched in March of 2010 and was named one of the 50 Best Websites of 2011 by Time magazine.
“I use Pinterest to show what I’m interested in and to find neat and inventive things I haven’t seen before,” undeclared freshman Kenzie Hedges said.
An image that is submitted to Pinterest is called a pin.
“It’s like a giant bulletin board filled with pictures,” said Chelsea Melchor, a junior integrated strategic communications major. “If you see something you like it’s almost like virtually taking that from the giant bulletin board and re-pinning it onto your boards.”
Pins are then divided into pictures, videos, discussions and gifts.
“People pin ideas for weddings, recipes, crafts, funny quotes or pictures and you can go on and re-pin what you like or just browse,” Melchor said. “Also it makes it really easy to find recipes, craft ideas and stuff in one place instead of having to search through the Web.”
Pictures are divided into a variety of subcategories so they can be easily located.
Subcategories such as architecture, fitness, home decor and photography exist, along with many more.
“I use Pinterest to get new and creative ideas for recipes, fashion trends and weddings,” said Paige Krall, a merchandising, apparel and textiles sophomore. “This website is so unique because it’s like an online journal of your favorite things that you can pull up anytime you want.
“It relates to a lot of different types of people. Whatever your interests are they have pins for it.”
Pinterest is not limited to a specific classification of people.
“There are so many topics to relate to different generations,” Krall said.
Pinterest was named one of the top 10 social networks by Hitwise data in December 2011 as the website averaged 11 million visits per week.
“It has endless creative and crafty ideas for do-it-yourself projects on a social network website,” said Erica Kepler, a senior sociology major.
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