How Can Anyone With ADHD look at Pinterest?

hearlady

hearlady

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I downloaded Pinterest years ago but lost interest. I've started looking at it recently and it is so busy and disjointed I'm found wondering if anyone has thoughts on this. Maybe it's my OCD nature that wants to organize it in my mind. 🙂
I realize you can organize it with your "pins" but it's the home page that feels like I've opened up "too much information at once!".
 

Kaila said:
I've never seen and have no knowledge of what Pinterest is;

And, with a recommendation like that post of yours, 😉😊
I won't be going there anytime soon!☺️😁😄😅😆

I'm sure I'd agree with you totally, if I did,
@hearlady
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When you open it you're hit with little squares of topics taking up the whole page and more as you scroll. Too much at once for my brain! 😊 Sort of like YouTube I suppose but more.
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hearlady said:
I downloaded Pinterest years ago but lost interest. I've started looking at it recently and it is so busy and disjointed I'm found wondering if anyone has thoughts on this. Maybe it's my OCD nature that wants to organize it in my mind. 🙂
I realize you can organize it with your "pins" but it's the home page that feels like I've opened up "too much information at once!".
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Years ago I accidentally uploaded or signed up for Pinterest and felt the same way you did. There’s way too much info for my brain to handle.Too much. Too soon.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
Years ago I accidentally uploaded or signed up for Pinterest and felt the same way you did. There’s way too much info for my brain to handle.Too much. Too soon.
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In addition to information overload for my brain, l also dislike internet items that are too easy to download unintentionally or to accidentally sign up for.

There's far too many that seem like that to me!

They don't want you to spend 5 minutes or 30 seconds deciding for yourself.?

If so, I'll just turn and run. 😊😃
 
My step-daughter loves Pinterest, mainly for all the recipes and...whatever interests she indicated when she opened her account.

I don't have time for all the stuff there, of course at every juncture you're being probed and coaxed into giving up more personal data.
 
i am disappointed in what that became. It was a virtual bulletin board that u could pin things u wanted to refer back to.

Now, it has inserted things it thinks i am interested in (i am not) and random ads (gotta hit you somewhere).

If, for instance, i look up a pic of a snowman, then my board is completely taken over by snowmen. if i look up a bacon recipe, the board automatically changes to everything bacon.

It's a turn-off for me.
 
As a quilter, crafter I found pinterest, in its early days, helpful. It was a good way to find new crafts and keep a record of where I saw them. It was a virtual bulletin board. There are bookmarks, but I was more of a visual person. I visited pinterest and there it was, in all its glory, staring back at me.
 
AnneTeak said:
As a quilter, crafter I found pinterest, in its early days, helpful. It was a good way to find new crafts and keep a record of where I saw them. It was a virtual bulletin board. There are bookmarks, but I was more of a visual person. I visited pinterest and there it was, in all its glory, staring back at me.
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I'm curious when it changed?
and was it mostly all at once or a gradual change?

It sounds like it was unique and useful, at one point.

Then perhaps eventually copied other sites and lost its original purpose?
 
I remembered something about Pinterest years ago that is probably why I quit it then. A square came up with graphic gay porn.
I had a shock then sort of brushed it off as I figured someone thought it was a funny joke but gradually as I thought about it, it creeped me out and bothered me. Graphic. 😟
Pinterest was apparently having a problem at the time with this sort of thing. They addressed it, I believe, and I've never seen or heard anymore problems. Again, it was a long time ago when it was fairly new.
 
I've never had anything to do with it and now I definitely won't. If I want to know how to do something or a recipe using the two items I have left in the pantry, I just type them on my home Google line and find more then enough info.

Long ago, when people started shopping at malls instead of on the city streets, I found out I could only stand them for about 30 minutes. Someone told me about sensory overload. I think the whole world is trying to overload us.

I feel sorry for the little kids who are bombarded with it. All the kid shows are so busy. They don't have any peaceful show to watch like, Mr. Roger's house or Captain Kangaroo's quiet place. For a while I couldn't watch "Everybody Loves Raymond" because their house was so cluttered and the wallpaper and curtains fought with each other.
 
Once you start pinning things, the algorithms kick in to show you similar things to your taste on the home page which makes it custom for you and less busy.

I mostly use it for pinning crochet patterns, home decor, gardening, recipes and it accurately portrays pins I like even within those interests. Crochet pins that show on the home page are similar to projects I've pinned, no crochet animal or toy patterns show up because I've never pinned those. Home decor pins that show on my home page are the decor styles and colors similar to my pins.
 
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I have lost interest in Facebook years ago. Looking at those idiot postings of idiots doing stupid things really stresses me out; so I love reading books. Books are so much more relaxing.
 
Packerjohn said:
I have lost interest in Facebook years ago. Looking at those idiot postings of idiots doing stupid things really stresses me out; so I love reading books. Books are so much more relaxing.
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Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool, a way to organize webpages about hobbies and interests by photo thumbnails (pins) that hyperlink to the articles. It's not where people post personal stuff. The homepage @hearlady mentions in the OP is where you get suggestions based on things you've pinned. There's also a search feature.

Here's an example of my board for my camper van. Each "pin" links to a product page, webpage article or video.


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I never saw the need for Pinterest. Seems to me there are better ways of organizing things. And how many things need organizing anyway? I also have OCD and ADD BTW.
 

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