Pinterest 12+

Pinterest has always been a must have tool for me, either by using it on desktop or on my phone. It’s an amazing place to get ideas for food, DIY projects, art, crafts, and so so much more. I use it for inspiration for pretty much everything. I also love that there is a business account version where I can grow my following, post my content, and watch the interactions with my posts. Ultimately what I love about Pinterest the most is it becomes the space you create.
However I do feel that there are a few things that can be updated and taken out. There are way too many ads now, practically my whole feed is purchasing options and advertisements. While I do like the option of when looking at certain pins that it gives you a link to visit their website, the shopping feed is not what Pinterest is. Neither are the constant ads that replace pins. Another thing that I think would increase interaction with pins is when you visit the app, the pins don’t automatically refresh. I can’t count the amount of times I have opened the app and seen a pin I’d like to save but can’t get to because the feed refreshes automatically. The next thing I’d like to add is i constantly get emails about “violating community guidelines” for pins I’ve saved. Recipes, craft inspiration, character designs, and quotes. It’s more so off-putting since it isn’t any of the pins I’ve created, yet saving seemingly harmless pins is in violation.

Okay, so don’t get me wrong, it is an amazing app. It’s (mostly) incredibly kid-friendly, and, well, there are other great things about it that I could put in this review, but that would make it too long. You may be wondering: “Well, if it’s such a great app, why didn’t you put in five stars?” I didn’t put in five stars because of the AI. All the AI pins are just absolutely cluttering up Pinterest, and it’s making it impossible to find real stories that happened, real images that people photographed, real things, real drawings that people put their time and effort into making. In the words of this one person who also addressed this problem (I forgot her name): “So see, if I search up garden, and I scroll around, all of it is AI; there’s this AI cat here, and then there’s this ‘garden’ here that is absolutely AI;…” and this is becoming a bit of a long review, but please. Somehow remove the AI pins, or at least put in a filter button in the settings that people can turn on to filter out AI pins somehow. Or like really, any type of pins they /absolutely/ do not want on their feed. Pinterest was used for finding inspiration— real things that real people did that inspired other people, that were put so much time and effort into, not just something ‘inspiring’ generated with the tap of a button. People get inspired from real, true things. Not AI.