Believe it or not, everyone is pinning. And we don't mean that old act of men giving women their fraternity pins.
Thanks to Pinterest, a website that helps you create digital bulletin boards on the Web, pinning has taken on a totally different digital meaning now.
The service, which you can access in any Web browser at www.pinterest.com, is simple to use. After requesting an invitation and signing up, it will prompt you to add a "Pin It" shortcut to your bookmarks bar. Then, when you come across an article, picture or video you like, you use that bookmark to pin it to your own bulletin board(s). Pin lots of items and the result is a colorful page full of images and links.
Of course, this is a social network, so you can then share the boards with your family and friends, or you can keep them entirely to yourself. You can also easily see which of your Facebook or Twitter friends are on the service and repin their content to you own board.
It is unlike a lot of the other services out there in that you just share by pinning, not text updates. It has become popular among twenty- and thirty-something women. But there's plenty of uses for everyone. Here are five ways to use the digital pinboard.
via : abcnews.go.com