Pinterest – the Site I Love to Hate

I do love Pinterest, I do. I love updating my boards and uploading new pictures of work I’ve done or places I’ve been. I love scrolling through all the images, its like a magazine of inspiration that I don’t have to recycle when I’m bored with it. Because images are constantly being uploaded, there is always something new to look at. I’ve had a Pinterest account since 2012, it was a New Years thing – must sign up for Pinterest – and in those days uploads took ages, sometimes they came in sideways and you never quite knew how much of the picture would be visible. Things are very different now and that is both good and bad.

To start with Pinterest was used by people who had an interest in design; it was first developed in 2009 as a closed community. It became a publicly accessible site in…