Pinterest

Pinterest makes it easy to swap pins and ideas with educators across the globe and to help keep lessons fresh and exciting. To do this, as well as connecting with existing contacts, I can search for educational content and boards, and follow those educators that inspire me and will be a good asset to my classroom.

I've been using Pinterest as a 'visual resume' for the past four years. Up until a year ago, it was a very useful social media tool. But now, with it's blatant consumerism & switching it's algorithms in a way that is not beneficial to business pinners; I find it a total mess. The worst problem several pinners are having now is; their follower number counts are dropping massive amounts of numbers & not revealing the corrected numbers, after their fluctuations. But the worst of it is - their Help Center is completely worthless - No one ever gets back to me, with legitimate problems that need to be addressed. It's all about Money & Promoted Pins & it's nothing like the original 'user friendly' formatting - I wish someone could start up a new & improved, less commercial 'Pinterest', that really would be of interest to us all!

Suddenly I can't use the site without my birthdate. It won't let me continue. Nope, I'm out. Have a right to share IF I want! You don't get to demand it as a condition of use. Some genius in your marketing department thought privacy was a 20th century idea no one cares about. Finished!'

I've done as much research into this company as humanly possible because everything they've done for the past year or so has not made sense. They've blatantly run off their user base, flooded the AppStore and Google Play with the most ridiculous fake reviews and implemented changes in increments to batches of customers at a time. I've learned who a major investor is and a lot has fallen into place. From reading employee reviews things are really going down fast. Find something else to do with your time. This is a duplicitous, deceitful operation.

Really enjoy this app. Always the most incredible ideas to share with others and uplifting quotes and images that gives us a new outlook for us to try. I always find something to catch my eye and so many different types of expression that is the beauty in the eye of the beholder. Great app and really easy to install and get started on your ideas from hairstyles to tricks and clean pots and pans... enjoyable experience for me

Someone in the development should really look into how bad their ad policy is. I keep getting irrelevant ads for Chinese suppliers, things that I am not interested in at all, and most annoyingly underwear - which makes it totally inappropriate and unusable at work! If it at the very least used all the info they have on me and suggested me promoted link that are similar to what I've pinned, it would be bearable. Still use it with adblocks, because I like the idea behind the website and having all the visual inspiration in one place.

Pinterest is misleading. They charged me for 1 ad for a year on a product I only gave them trial authorization to use. Then insist on keeping my money I never reinitiated these charges but each time I reposted the photos with the same title they charged, 50, 25, 35, etc. Do not trust them since I started they sent 3 emails that look just like their constant junk mail. They charged me over $150 for a shirt advertisment that they knew was not connected with an active Etsy account

I was a Pinterest evangelist. I got so many users signed up on their app I should have been paid. But no longer. First it was ads. So everyone understands a few ads but they have made it into ads on every scroll line. Then they started inserting random "picked for you pins" with a poorly designed algorithm. Then they blacklisted many websites because they believe in censorship. And now, on top of all of that, they have made their platform almost completely useless by taking away titles and descriptions from pins. Pins don't make sense anymore without descriptions to explain them. Who runs these changes at Pinterest? Who approves them? It's no wonder that they've lost millions in the last quarter... they don't listen to their user base! Here's some million $$ advice for you Pinterest. Get a consumer advisory board made up of REAL LIFE users and run changes by them. Someone will unthrone this company soon if they don't become more user friendly.

So I've been interested in aesthetic lately, but all the pics I could get are on pinterest, which, by the way, has just about a million ads, so I decided to create an account and it was pretty nice, and THEN after 10 minutes, I could not get in! My account has apparently been suspended. I emailed them twice. The first time, they sent me an email back saying (quote) Oof! It looks like your message didn't go through. This usually happens if it's been awhile since we've heard from you, or if your original question was closed. Sorry about that!
Well it has only been about 5 minutes! So I re-emailed them, because I was interested in the account. I have not gotten an email back and, reading the reviews, I don't think I will. Great while it lasted, which was about 10 minutes.

At first, I won't lie. I thought Pinterest was only for icing topped snacks and roasted Brussels Sprouts Recipes. I had no interest in knitting projects and to be honest, I didn't see many guys on the site.

Not that I can't hang with the ladies, but I thought there was a reason most users were women. After a while, I found books and reading boards that I liked to follow. Then designers. Then after that, if started following some wood workers and got some ideas and tips for furniture making.

The site helped me start planning the remodel of my backyard... and I indirectly got into a bit of gardening! Don't find the app as usfeul as the site, but it's a great site!

As i'm sure most people have noticed now, pinterest has been kicking people out for not having businesses, a once free community, now only for people that have a business and money. They are kicking people out and claiming it as "inappropriate pins" or "copyright" that no one can help. Scandals are becoming stronger now about their rise in money, please business owners don't use pinterest. And for those that want to show the world the pictures, memes, gifs, or inspirational works, please find a way to do so.

I used to LOVE Pinterest. I got all of my ideas, healthy recipes, and school lunches from them, but one day while I was just sliding through Pinterest, they suspended me for nothing! It sent me a gmail saying, "You have been suspended for 7 days because you broke our spam policy." What even is a spam?!? Any way bottom line is Pinterest has good ideas and valuable things, but is all that worth being suspended/ spammed? Also they need to stop suspending people for things they didn't do. My advice, avoid Pinterest and just get Google.

I used to use Pinterest all of this month, but after getting a copyright claim, I decided to close my account. Why? Because I found out on another site that people who make pins on Pinterest basically steal art from websites like deviantArt and even images from Wikis. Also, the site will literally spam you with images you may not want to see, and on two occasions, I have come across some disgusting images that I reported. This is not a social media site worth using, especially since it's full of stolen art and images.