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1 June 2020

Moaning Monday

Yes it's another of those Moaning Monday posts again.

The subject this time is Pinterest. I HATE Pinterest and will not pin anything there AT ALL. The only thing I have done is add my own pattern links on my 'bit' in the hopes that people can find what they want if they want to.

When I go searching Google (which I often do) for things I have seen before but can't remember where (usually a tatting design and because I'm too lazy to go through my books) the first few places to come up all lead to Pinterest. I ignore those and go further down the page.

I left Pinterest some years ago as I could see so much copyright theft going on but realised that it could probably and possibly help me if I set up my own board there just to put links to my individual patterns. This is what I've tried to do over the past year or two although I do tend to forget!! 

Yesterday I spent valuable tatting time updating my Pinterest board which you can find here - if you should want/need it.


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6 comments:

  1. Tim Kaylor9:08 am

    I'm with you. I hate Pinterest so much i blocked it. It is one of those "you have to have an account" type places, like facebook. They just want your information so they can market at you.

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  2. Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane11:50 am

    I have a Pinterest account, but I don't think to go there very often. I mainly use it as a place to store ideas for future projects, and then I forget to go back and look. It's just one more place to collect clutter.

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  3. Stephanie Grace5:21 pm

    There is a way to block Pinterest results... I can't remember it... Lol.

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  4. Anonymous5:43 pm

    I agree with you (and TIm). When I do any sort of search, I end it with '- pinterest' and that eliminates all the Pinterest links.
    StephanieW

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  5. Anonymous7:44 pm

    Pinterest is the worst, especially since everything on it just leads to more Pinterest instead of the source. If you type -pinterest into the search bar then you shouldn't see anything from it.

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  6. Jane Eborall8:30 pm

    So relieved it’s not just me who doesn’t like Pinterest. Thanks for the tip StephanieW and also Anonymous for the suggestions of adding -Pinterest to search. Very useful tip. Hope you catch this, Stephanie Grace!!!

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