Pinterest

I think Pinterest is the coolest form of social media yet. It's my favorite kind at least.

I jumped on the Pinterest straight away. When Facebook and Twitter came out, I was very reluctant to join either of them. I joined Facebook in 2006 or 2007, sometime during my junior year of high school. I was way behind all of my friends. I joined Twitter in 2010, but I rarely tweeted and just recently signed up for a new account and have been tweeting from that one. (@ma_farley) But I signed up for Pinterest as soon as I was invited - that's a good thing about being a member of a sorority, I was able to easily find someone to invite me - and have checked the site almost daily since.

Of course, Pinterest is good for planning your future wedding, laughing at your e cards, and looking at cute animals (my favorite), 

but the site has caught my attention for another reason.

Not only do I follow 50+ people that I don't know, but I also follow 100+ people that I do know. Of these people, I'm probably really good friends with about 30 of them. The rest are people from high school, or people I know from my freshman ACS class. What's really interesting about following my acquaintances is that they pin the most unique pins. 

In real life, I know which of my friends to go to when I need cheered up, to go shopping, or to laugh. The same is true on Pinterest. I love following the people that I'm not very familiar with because they always show me something exciting. From my acquaintances, I see the coolest pictures of India, or the cutest baby elephant playing in the ocean, or the most creative way to make a picture frame. Not only does this give me great ideas and things to look at, but it also is a way for me to get a sense of the person's personality. I might not have said more than "hello" to the girl who sat in my row in Intermediate Spanish II, but on Pinterest I see that she loves memes and movies with Jason Segel. I would've never known these things without Pinterest because honestly, and this may be a fault of mine, I can't see myself randomly talking to someone three seats away from me for no reason. 

Without Pinterest I also would've never had the idea to make my mom a mirror/quote board/wall fixture if it weren't for my second cousin in California. Boy does my mom love that mirror.

A lot of adults say that our generation doesn't know how to communicate with one another, that we can't really get to know each other through technology. I'd say that Pinterest directly contradicts that. 


Happy pinning :)