What Is Pinterest It’s a summer afternoon and you’re hanging out with friends One gets the idea for a project She wants to tie-dye some T-shirts None of you are sure what supplies to get or what steps to take You find an adult to help you search on Pinterest The adult logs in to the site and types tie-dye shirts in the search bar A list of ideas and projects appears You and your friends choose the project with the brightest colors Then you follow the directions and start making your supercool new shirts This is the spirit of Pinterest Pinterest is an idea-sharing website and app Users find articles images recipes crafts and more on the Internet They post this content to their Pinterest profiles where each item becomes a pin Users can connect with each other to see one another’s pins Then they can repin other users content to their own Pinterest profiles 4
Pinterest users create different boards for their pins Pinners organize and name their boards by topic event color and more Pinterest’s mission is to inspire people to find and share things that interest them hem The site connects creators thinkers The site connects creators thinkers and doers across the globe and doers across the globe 5
Pinterest Site Bytes Purpose sharing ideas Type of Service website and app URL www pinterest com App name Pinterest Date of Founding March 2010 Founders Ben Silbermann Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp Compatible Devices Tablet Smartphone Laptop 6 Tech Terms Pin Pins are the images that make up Pinterest When users find content they want to post they turn it into pins This is called pinning A pin includes an image on the user’s board and a link to the website where the original content is located Repin If a user visits another user’s Pinterest profile he or she can repost that user’s pins to his or her own Pinterest profile This is called repinning Board Boards are how Pinners organize pins Users can name and organize their boards as they like The group of boards a user creates makes up his or her Pinterest profile
Founding Pinterest Pinterest was created by Ben Silbermann Paul Sciarra and Evan Sharp Silbermann had the original idea for the site As a child Silbermann loved collecting and displaying objects In 2009 he got the idea to create a way to do this online He asked Sciarra to help Around this time Silbermann and Sciarra met Evan Sharp a website designer They asked Sharp to help work on Pinterest Sharp put together 50 different designs before the Paul Sciarra Ben Silbermann Evan Sharp three men settled on a final version The trio’s hard work paid off Pinterest was officially launched in March 2010 By July 2013 Pinterest had 70 million users Today it has more than 100 million Account Info (cid:3)(cid:115) Users must be at least 13 to create an account (cid:3)(cid:115) Once a user creates an account he or she chooses a username and uploads a profile photo (cid:3)(cid:115) Only users logged in to their accounts can view like repin or comment on Pinterest content (cid:3)(cid:115) Users find other Pinners to follow searching for them by name username or topic (cid:3)(cid:115) Users can create secret boards Users can invite specific people to view a secret board Otherwise only the user can see his or her secret boards (cid:3)(cid:115) If a user pins something to a nonsecret board anyone logged in to Pinterest can view it 7
