What is Pinterest and How to use it?

What is Pinterest?

Pinterest CEO Ben Sibermann defined his product as "catalogue of ideas that inspires users to go out and do anything".

Pinterest is a private web and mobile application that is usually invented to discover ideas.

Its done mainly using images or gifs of shorter scale, which technically we call it as pins. I will discuss about it further. 
It has 175 million active users spread worldwide.

Founder Of Pinterest :

• The founders  are ----

1. Ben Sibermann     

2. Evan Sharp

3. Paul Sciarra

• Founded on March 2010.Ma

Where can you find Pinterest?

Pinterest is an active visual discovery, with an around 175 million active users. You can enjoy the experience in their regular website- 

Pinterest

The pinterest founders didn't disappoint the mobile users. As it is also active in all the leading stores.

Get signed into google play store account and enjoy the services of Pinterest

Google Play Store: Pinterest

Apart from google, its also in apple store;

Apple Store : Pinterest

In windows store you can find an extension for microsoft edge for pinning to Pinterest.

Microsoft Store: Pinterest Save Button

Inside Pinterest

The pinterest has gorgeous, straightforward UI. It has following Menu's. These are exceptionally essential for the learners. They ought to know about these straightforward things before utilizing it.

Pins

As I referred to the word 'PIN' earlier, it is generally an image that has been linked from a website or been uploaded. At first there use to be 'PIN IT' but now they have changed to 'Save'. Pin it remained the formal term for the work.  

Apart from 'Pin It' tag there is other term called 'REPIN'. Repinning is generally pins saved from one users board that can be saved to someone else's board.

Don't get panic the next one is Board. You will get clear form that.

Boards

Boards in simple words is collection of pins subjected to particular specific topic. Users create a particular board of their interest and save pins in it. Its for the most part the Title of the pins you include it.

Explore

Its a sort of search bar, which suggest a keyword while entering a term. The term EXPLORE suggest that its the place to get explored or investigated into the particular watchword. It is partitioned into all the related topics which you have provided while signing in. Including this there are all the trending topics and last but not the least, it has all the Boards registered in it with a slidebar down.

Following

Its a typical term which can be found in each social stage. In Pinterest users can follow or unfollow users boards. Similiar to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter it gives us the feed of the users update to the board.  

How I Used Pinterest?

Its been a time of 2 years I have been a member of Pinterest Group. Feeling bored from the regular social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc I switched to Pinterest. It progressed toward becoming habit from that point, every user will be used to after experiencing their UI and simple basic designing. The significant limitation of this platform is How to use it? 

  

Apart from the image based social network its much more.

At that point I began figuring all the outline and formats. Thier features will be a wholesome mystery to the beginners. Bunches of people have also requested me to figure it out.This blog is the consequence of that argue.

I utilize this platform for-------

Promotion

In significant I used Pinteret to promote and advance my blog TechZoomy. Pinterest is helpfull to rank our site effectively. I will write it in the next blog to How to bring traffic through Pinterest?

I likewise advanced my interests through this. I created boards of my interests and make it became a interest to other users. One of it is Sherlock Holmes. In straightforward I had promoted the web series Sherlock Holmes.

I likewise made a board of my city as Vizagians. I shared all the important events of my city through pins associating to the respective destiny sites. Through this I elevate my city to the world. Also Pinterest is a world wide platform.

Learning

The serious reason of the founder in establishing it is to share ideas. I usually share ideas in it through boards. One of the topic I choose was Blender, which I titled as 'Blender made Easy'. I will provide you the link of my blog on Blender Intro below.

As social media

It can be used as great social media sites yet we ought to know about its technique. Lets compare it with social media site Facebook.

• In Facebook what we for the most part do is we share post which get back in our timeline. In Pinterest we share pins which get back in our profile.
• In Facebook we add friends to our profile and follow them. In pinterest also we follow other users through follow tag.
• In facebook we create a album or page in our profile of our own interest. In pinterest we create Boards of our own passion and get followers.
• In facebook we have all the trending news or information, likewise in pinterest we can use it as news platform by giving our interest specifications while signing in.

How to Get into Pinterest?

1. Sign In

For entering into any site we have to get attached to it. It literally means that we have to sign in. We have to accept their terms and conditions and get recognized by them at first. For signing in just visit the officially site Pinterest.

It looks like----

The UI design of pinterest is such an awesome thing, through which anyone can be attracted to it.

Get an E-mail and sign in through it.

Or directly get through it through facebook connectivity option- 'CONTINUE WITH FACEBOOK'. This will be better option as  it will get you regular instant notifications. You can also get into touch of your friends using Pinterest through facebook.

   2. Complete the requirements

After you do the above step you would get following 4 steps for setting of your account------

•  Select your gender. 
  
  
  
  
  
• Pick you language and country. You have to select the language you want and country of your present stay. It generally helps the Pinterest to filter the pins for you when you all setup.
  
•  Pick 5 interested Topics. Its generally the topics which you have interest in. There will be lots of selections according to the users selections. You can select any number of topics of your interest. These will be saved to your profile and at your home page pins regarding these topics will be shown as a preference.
   
• You can find lots of topics as you scroll down like---
  

 

• The last step is nothing but your Pinterest page. 

You can see the magnificence of the site after you followed these steps. 

Enjoy Pinterest and start following people and importantly be followed.

Enjoy creating Pins and Boards. 

In my next blog I will provide you with these informations -----

• How to earn money through Pinterest?
• How bloggers use it?
• What's hidden secrets in Pinterest?