[iambateman]

Pinterest is that it’s a fantastic way to browse collections (“recipes”, “decorating ideas”, “gift ideas”) which are both stable and visual.

I use Pinterest on a weekly basis for recipes because my wife and I share a board. Evidently I’m a power user by their metric.

But the problem is they are bound by impossible growth projections, which prevent them from making Pinterest into the best once-weekly-recipe-tool.

In my opinion their search for social media dominance is a real drawback.

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You can tell they don't want to be a useful tool, rather they want to suck in as many users as they can and extract as much eyeball time as they can.

I have multiple friends who are addicted to just scrolling through pinterest. The few times where I've thought it might be useful I've been stopped from using it and told to make an account (I don't want to post anything back to them, I don't see why I should have to keep track of yet another set of credentials just for them.)

If they where less aggressive toward their current and potential users and instead looked at them with realistic and helpful attitude they would probably be awesome. Right now I want nothing to do with them and I personally stay away.