Pinterest and instagram images.

I haven't really browsed Pinterest much lately, but I've always been a little annoyed when I click on an image and it's just an image with no explanation or anything. So I'm sure clicking on it and being taken to Instagram would probably be annoying as well unless I could follow that post to something more useful, like a blog or video. I'm guessing that a lot of people are finding inspiration on Instagram these days so that's why there's more of those pins appearing.

 

I find it pretty annoying too. Sometimes I try to do a Google image search (on Chrome, right click, "Search Google for image"), but in most cases it just leads to more Pins.

 

YES! I hate when the link leads to Instagram! Or even worse, when it's an uploaded image. I hate both of them. I'm like you, I want a tutorial, a blog post or at least credits for what they used to make the project!

 

I don't really understand the instagram love or following, but it is what is being done for now, so I play along.
I am still so old school I enjoy my blog reader, LOVE the blogging, tutorial and longer article style content.

 

I gave up on Pinterest a long time ago. Not necessarily because of this issue but because of all the ads that get inserted in the feed when I'm trying to see what my friends are pinning. At one time it seemed like every other pin was an ad.

I did go into my account a few months ago and deleted a lot of my pins that were for projects that are now done or things for interests that I am no longer interested in.

 

I'm pretty much over Pinterest, to tell you the truth. I've been on it since the inception - in fact (brag moment coming) I was "invited" to be one of the first members. It was kind of a test run to see if it would catch on. Obviously, it did. LOL

 

I barely use my pinterest anymore. I love Instagram though. We have an account for our dogs and it's fun!

 

Another super annoying thing about Pinterest: every once in a while I receive an email "Don't miss out on these Pins... We found some fresh Pins for you". And almost all of them are my Pins. Not my LOs pinned by someone else; my Pins! Makes no sense at all.

 

I agree! Lots of photos/ideas you click on now and expect to see a tutorial or an interesting article or something and it just leads NOWHERE!!

 

Like @Cherylndesigns I was invited to join Pinterest before it was public. I hardly ever access it anymore. But when I do, I am disgusted with all of the ads that I have no interest in... And I agree with @cinderella about those daily notifications. They want me to follow pins that are my own. But the freakiest notification I got was one with a board named with my first and last name. Apparently I have a fan. LOL.

 

That's a good one, Marilyn. I also had a "ghost board" and I finally got rid of it! It showed that I had like 8 boards and just a handful of followers, but it did have my picture - ie an old one, but it looked legit. I rarely click on anything because since they monetized it, you can't see anything about your pin anyway. If I go on, I just "look". It's so completely unlike it started out to be and what drives me crazy is to look at a "board" that I'm interested in and it's full of shoe ads and spanx, I-yi-yi.

 

No, believe it or not, it is a woman who really enjoyed my glue book pages, so she created a board to pin them, and named the board with my name.

 

Well, you know what "they" say "imitation is the greatest form of flattery".

 

That's a good one, Nemla.

 

yep it bugs me too! but any kind of pinning that takes me on a weird detour bugs me and i think i'm getting about 50/50 ad's to actual pins these days when i scroll thru (not sure if that's just a local change to pinterest but the 'you might like these' suggestions are also waaaay off when i click through and actually look at a page - like there algorithm or something saw there was a dot of yellow on the page i looked at so they'll just suggest anything random with a miniscule dot of any colour as well)

ETA: complaints are out of my system now - i still pin but useit more on my phone now, chrome or my laptop or something hasn't liked pinterest for a while now

 

YES! Mostly because I'm not an instagrammer and I dislike having Pinterest taken over with that format.
I do still use it, we do a lot of Lego inspiration on there. I hate when there's no directions or even a general idea on how to create the Lego creation.

 

It bugs me a lot, same with the suggested posts and the adverts. Just sit there longing for the good old days.
I always made a point of going through and finding the source of the craft idea (etc) instead of just repinning, because a LOT of them are either just a picture or they are a reblogged-reblog of someone else's idea.
I hardly go on it any more. More often than not, if I am looking for a project, I just google it!

Me too!! I was just talking to my sister about it the other day!!