28 February 2012

today i made a decision


Lots of people have had lots to say about Pinterest lately; Francesca, Jen and this lady. I've read what everyone has to say and I've decided to delete my boards.


I really enjoyed Pinterest - I enjoyed looking. If you ever checked out my boards you'll have seen I wasn't great at pinning. It just didn't really gel with me, I always had a little pang of should I be doing this guilt. 


I work as a designer and I use other peoples images on a daily basis, the images I use always come through an official channel and their use is paid for by the company I work for, I always make sure picture credits are created at the end of a project and these appear on the stuff I design (somewhere, usually small and out of the way - but there). 


I'm not saying everyone should do what I've done, had I had as many boards as some of you I think it would have been a much harder decision to make, but I didn't. In fact I struggled to find time to pin, so in a way this has just taken the pressure off slightly, I'll no longer feel a little deflated that my boards aren't as busy as yours!


I stick stuff up on the walls around my desk all the time, those walls can be my pinboard for now, who knows I may even start to take pictures and share them with you here.


P.S. I hope I don't sound like too much of a party-pooper!

5 comments:

  1. Hi! I don't think you sound like a party pooper at all! It is a hard decision and i think we'll be debating this for quite a while. I think you made the right choice for your boards if it just didn't feel right to you. For me, i'm still undecided!

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    1. Thanks Jen. I'll be following the debate it's an interesting one. And would be a shame to loose all your lovely boards.

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  2. Hi Pols, so funny, I just had my very very first look at Pinterest just now (I don't quite get it yet I have to say, it looks a bit like Facebook 'like' thingies?), it was the most recent thing I did before reading your blog. My first time on Pinterest and you've already left. OMG, what does that make me? A tortoise for sure...

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    1. he he! Think I'm a bit of a tortoise too, you know what I'm like with Twitter - slow as slow can be! And I'm not existent on Instagram (still)!

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  3. I feel the same way about Facebook to delete or not!

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