Alicia64 Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 recipe after recipe or pillow after pillow or bracelet bangle after bracelet bangle? I don't know enough about Pinterest to understand why it happens. It's like that right now. Alley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annandatje Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 (edited) I have not used pinterest, but supposedly it is a site where you post items of interest to you. Thus, a significant number of pinterest users find pillows, bracelets and recipes interesting. One of my acquaintances posted kids' Halloween costume ideas. Edited November 9, 2012 by annandatje Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somo_chickenlady Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Because people keep repinning it, and every time they do it shows up as a new pin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicia64 Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 Because people keep repinning it, and every time they do it shows up as a new pin. Then my guess is that it's businesses paying people to repin and repin and repin certain things. Because sometimes Pinterest is really interesting, but other times it's filled -- filled -- with recipes or pillows. Alley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somo_chickenlady Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 No, there are just some things more people find interesting, and other things they don't. If a lot of people don't find it interesting, it will only be pinned once or twice, but if people love it it will be repinned repeatedly. Think of how many people use Pinterest. If all of them like the same things, it will show up a lot. At the bottom of each pin it shows how many times it was repinned...I've seen some upwards of 2000! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicia64 Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 No, there are just some things more people find interesting, and other things they don't. If a lot of people don't find it interesting, it will only be pinned once or twice, but if people love it it will be repinned repeatedly. Think of how many people use Pinterest. If all of them like the same things, it will show up a lot. At the bottom of each pin it shows how many times it was repinned...I've seen some upwards of 2000! I still think businesses are getting in on the act. Alley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 They are. Google "paying for pins". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Sometimes people I follow will repin the same pin to different boards--especially if it's something like an educational idea that could apply to science, math, and other subjects at once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mergath Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 They are. Google "paying for pins". Plus, some people have way too much free time. A few months back someone that I follow went and pinned literally hundreds of pictures of the Kardashians. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicia64 Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 They are. Google "paying for pins". Okay. Thank you. I was wondering what the deal was. Alley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MistyMountain Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I use pinterest as a place to organize my links so I do post a lot recipes to it. I am not a good cook and depend on online recipes to mix things up. I have a lot of recipes on pinterest but cooking is definitely not my only hobby or interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somo_chickenlady Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I use pinterest as a place to organize my links so I do post a lot recipes to it. I am not a good cook and depend on online recipes to mix things up. I have a lot of recipes on pinterest but cooking is definitely not my only hobby or interest. Same here. I pin most of my recipes rather than bog down my browser by bookmarking it. Plus, it is easier to find that way. ;) Some may say I have too much free time b/c there are times when I pin a TON at once, but I have really bad insomnia, and I do most of my pinning when I'm up at night b/c I can't sleep and I have nothing better to do...like last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicia64 Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 I think it depends on who you follow also. If you only follow a few people and they are really into recipes and pillows...well...;) Are you talking about the same picture over and over on a page? I've had that every once in awhile. I think it happens either when it's loading, a glitch, (which Pinterest has lots of those) or yeah....companies have basically spammed Pinterest. It's weird like that right now. I think the person who said Google is being paid to do this is right. Alley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie in Austin Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Sometimes if I am researching something (the last thing was homemade ravioli!) I will find five recipes I like and plan on using aspects of each one, so I'll pin all of them in a row. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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