1. If you’re having trouble getting those creative vibes flowing, Pinterest provides the creative boost, the source of inspiration necessary to complete your own goals. Speaking from personal experience, Pinterest saved me so many times in high school when I needed inspiration designing the school’s magazine pages. The idea is that it is just that, something that inspires you, but in recreating it, you inevitably make it your own.
2. For my fellow sorority women out there, I think I can get a unanimous agreement that Pinterest revolutionized crafting for the little, cooler painting, and everything. Enough said.
3. There is the ability to directly share with your friends by sending them pins of instant mood boosters, inside jokes, memes, you name it, so the option to be social is there.
4. It’s simple. The idea is straightforward. Press the “Pin it” button for what you like, and show it off.
5. You can pin all the cool pictures that you find on the web directly from the Internet to your organized boards with the toolbar application.
6. Pinterest exemplifies a unique branch of social media, one completely unlike its rivaling counterparts like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Pinterest taps into a realm where everything is centered around the individual, their potential, and creating your own “brand” through what you pin.
7. Through the app, you are creating your ideal self. Every aspect of your life is now planned out, down to what centerpieces will be on your wedding reception tables to what you’re cooking for dinner that night.
8. Everyone has a niche, and I mean EVERYONE. People who like food, photographers, artists, designers, sorority women, moms, rich men from the UK, brands that like traffic, bloggers, people who like to organize, check.
9. There is, however, one huge drawback. The excitement that arises from creating your virtual perfect life through Pinterest with the ultimate home décor, wedding, wardrobe, and fitness boards inherently construct existential angst for all the things that we want but can’t have.
10. WAIT. There is hope! Soon there will be a “buy” button installed within the app that takes the user directly to a purchasing landing page for the item. Now those dreams of having that emoji-print dress, tea-cup Yorkie, or regal Southern plantation home can become a reality.
