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"Pinterest is a visual search engine"

Aaah, ok kinda make sense now. Been hearing about this site for years, and I still don't 'get' what it actually is.

I think the part of my brain that understands social media is broken.

Maybe it's social media that is broken.

I just use it for bookmarking images I might want to come back to or share in the future (e.g., my favorite XKCDs, screenshots of GUIs for inspiration, etc.).

The funny thing is that even though I have lots of clippings, I rarely ever go back to Pinterest to actually look at them.

I've found that for myself, the joy is in the collecting, not in the having.

That was the case for myself as well. I used to find in therapeutic to pin cookie recipes and Halloween decorations during my work break (from a job I was not too fond of).

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