Farhad Manjoo didn’t get Pinterest.com when he reviewed it in Slate last month. This is unsurprising. They sent a tech writer to do a culture writer’s job, and he failed spectacularly.
Or maybe it had something to do with the fact that Pinterest is still largely an image-sharing board for middle-aged women, largely devoid of video game art, geek memes and pornography … so far.
As one of the pioneering males in this new online social experience, I’m just trying to stake a small beachhead for my brothers, because I think the site has the potential to be a great media-swapping place for grownups. However, I think there are a few things the developers should consider if they want to lure the boys out of 4chan and Reddit:
- Drop the requirement that I add a description to my posted images. A picture is worth 1,000 words. I don’t necessarily need to add any.
- Write, buy or steal some kind of Facebook-style image enlarging widget. I do not want to go to an entirely new page to view something I’ve clicked on, only to have to hit the back button and lose my place in the torrent of pics.
- Fix the database so my last umpteen pins do not show up under the “Pinners You Follow” heading. I have no need to follow myself. There are plenty of tools for seeing my own posts.
- Develop an Android app already!
You can just enter a single character such as a period, if you don’t want to write a description, but the descriptions are needed for searches.
Really? So when I go searching for “OMG SO AWESOME,” I’ll be sure to find exactly what I’m looking for.
On a completely different subject, I think watch makers are spamming the menswear board, because NOBODY wears that many watches anymore.
That is indeed a different subject, it has nothing to do with his comment, so why did you caught your own mistake and purposely bring that up?
Why do you fucking suck dick at english writing so much? You must be a retard’s retard.
Oh, and I won’t come back here to read your reply. Feel free to argue with a wall, as if you’re doing some graffiti work in a hope that someone would agree with you, while in reality, no one gives a shit.