I guess I will be the first commenter who’s not ready to sing the praises of Pinterest.

I’ve been on Pinterest since the days when the action was “Pin”, not Save, LOL. The refine home feed feature is better as an idea than in practice. Every time I get fed up with the amount of irrelevant pins in my home feed, I go to the refine tool and see that once again, Pinterest has turned on facets I turned off the last time around, like Dessert recipes. No I don’t want to see every single one of the millions of dessert recipes on Pinterest, thank you very much. I am afraid to EVER search on anything for fear that I will then have to retrain Pinterest so that my home feed isn’t taken over by, to be blunt, crap.

Some days I get so ticked off at the crap in my home feed and the time I waste trying to train the algorithm again, that I don’t return for a week or two. Despite my NEVER having purchased anything from a Wayfair or Etsy pin, I get ads for fashion products for young women I have ZERO interest in, or cheesy home crafts pins.

Every time I search on something, my feed then gets inundated with every variation of that search term. I wish there was a way to actually TELL Pinterest that just because I like, for example, embroidery, doesn’t mean I also want to see every crocheted or knitted kids doily pattern.

Every so often for inexplicable reasons, I’ll start getting pins for elementary school activities.

Having said all that, I have often discovered craft artists on Pinterest, mainly via following fellow creatives on Pinterest, not via their algorithms, and checking out the “Related” pins section.

And for the record, I don’t think Pinterest IS a social media platform. I don’t go there to interact with anyone, I go to collect visual inspiration in graphic design and art.