Pinterest 12+

I ADORE PINTEREST!
It is my favourite app and I just love finding exactly what I am looking for whenever I need it. Pinterest is perfect! However I have one problem.. recently there is a new update for accounts under 16 years old are to be made private and some boards disabled. This is not necessary for Pinterest to do as I believe it is such a safe space already. I am particularly annoyed with the restriction and the accounts being made private as some people are no longer able to see my acc at all. My girlfriend and I have board for each other that we can look at but now she is no longer able to view my account! This is really heartbreaking as our first way of communicating our feelings was through our pins we had saved and sent to each other. I also have looked up to see if anyone else is having difficulties and are unimpressed, there is quite a lot. The update may have had good intentions but the functionality of Pinterest is now broken. I urge to you remove the update and keep private account and option. I will continue to support the app but this change is disappointing. Hopefully you take action.

Kind regards,
a beloved Pinterest user 💜

I have been using Pinterest since I was 12 and absolutely love it. But they recently put in place a new policy meaning that all users under the age of 16’s account is made private and all boards shared with under 16’s will be disabled until all collaborators are 16. This is ridiculous, I am now 16 turning 17 and have had over half my boards, most I use for school, disabled. All my friends and board collaborators on Pinterest are all over 16 as well, yet our shared boards are lost. I am a VCE student and a lot of my subjects require evidence of though process and collaboration, this new feature means I cannot access the boards I use for the subjects and inhibits my ability to provide evidence and injures my study score and grade. I also lost a lot of boards for my passions of art and fashion, which I share with friends, and they are lost too. I’m taking about 5 YEARS worth of pins GONE. Pinterest is meant to be a place where users with common interests, likes and hobbies and collaborate and communicate with like minded individuals. A massive portion of Pinterest users are under the age of 16 and this inhibits and isolates them from a community of common people. This entire policy is stupid, unnecessary and ridiculous. I have written complaints to the help centre and hope this policy is dissolved and removed effectively and soon.