While growing up, I was encouraged to experience the world around me. No matter where my strengths and passions lie, I will never turn down an opportunity to learn more about something or gain another perspective. While I think every aspect of social media has impacted my life in some way, I think Pinterest had the most profound impact. Pinterest has become my social media best friend for our shared goal of being a sponge of varied information—or as they say it best “the world’s catalog of ideas”. I build Pinterest boards spanning my wide variety of interests—food, hiking, crafting, fashion, travel, impactful advertisements, ted talks, music, books, slam poetry etc.—and use the platform to learn more about areas I’m less versed in.
My pinterest makes me look like I'm a health fanatic married woman with kids that wants to build a house
— BRI TUCK ↠ (@briannatucker23) March 5, 2017
…or like Bri, sometimes it makes me look like a dessert-obsessed, fashion loving, workout weirdo–and I’m okay with that. Its explore option also helps me to identify new areas I want to deep dive into. Pinterest perfectly represents my passion for learning and exploring and my belief that you never stop learning.
Where will you go next? Top travel destinations: https://t.co/bw17OK7I86 pic.twitter.com/XkK6LxFmWj
— Pinterest (@Pinterest) March 3, 2017
Our world is bigger than we will ever know and each person has a different perspective on things—each worth hearing and taking into account. Pinterest, like me, is soaking in and capturing the experiences, and ideas of the world. This experience brings into focus our “sameness” or what makes us unique and interesting – and like Pinterest- what ultimately pins us together.
Oh and shameless plug..check out my Pinterest Boards 🙂 https://www.pinterest.com/gabschnell/
I enjoyed this analysis of Pinterest because of the opportunities to pick up on new topics. I think Pinterest is more suited to expanding one’s horizons compared to other social media platforms. As discussed in class, it’s important to break out of echo chambers and Pinterest allows feasible ways to do that.
I really liked your take on how Pinterest is shaping you as a person and expanding your world. It’s clear that we have a great amount of access to information in the digital age, and I think it’s really cool that you are using Pinterest to aggregate information from places all over the world!
I really enjoyed your perspective on this. I appreciated how you viewed Pinterest as a new way to experience the world around you. Many people, especially older generations, often dismiss social media platforms as distractions that keep younger generations from spending time outdoors and seeing the world around them. I think this perception could easily be shifted when realizing the access we have through social media. We get to see and read experience that we may not have been able to without the power of social media. I hope that more people continue to see social the way you do; as a way to expand horizons, not limit them!
I really liked your comments about Pinterest because I feel like my experience with social media has been similar, but different. I was never super into Pinterest at the height of its popularity, but I have recently gotten more into it, and I agree with your analysis. I think it’s an awesome way to create something unique and shareable that is often even useful.