Going on the internet and looking around on Facebook, Google, or Tumblr is like going into a candy shop as a kid. You see a Jolly Rancher and want to try every flavor. With so many interesting topics and pictures, it’s difficult to organize what you like or want or remember. Pinterest, a new social media craze, allows you to “pin” your favorite pictures, quotes, ext. to your own virtual bulletin board.

Here’s how it works: When you see something that you want to add to your Pinterest you click the “Pin It” plug-in and add it to your “board”. Friends that follow you can see your “pins” and comment on them too. They can “repin” images to their own boards and you can explore what is on their boards. When you click on the image it will take the user to the original site that the photo was taken from. By pinning and repining, you share pictures, creative ideas, and many other things with friends and find other people’s ideas and photos as well.

Senior Lauren Parsons likes Pinterest more than actual blog sites, like Tumblr, because it’s more organized and you can see where the pictures originally come from.
Exploring Pinterest is easy. Simply search the “everything” category, where you can see other user’s pins, or narrow your search by selecting one of the other many categories, such as food, art, and apparel.

Junior Audrey Guerin likes to look at the many pictures that her friends post on their boards. She started using Pinterest through her job, but she found herself forgetting to use it.
“I miss using it,” Guerin said. Her Pinterest described her style and her personality. She enjoys pinning photos of outfit ideas that she would like to wear or a cute hair style that she would like to try.

Parsons likes to pin healthy recipes that she can try, cute clothes, nail designs, and ideas for her dream wedding to her many boards.
“It’s a cooler way than Facebook to express yourself,” Parsons said. At first she thought that it was a stupid fad, but she soon became a Pinterest fanatic.
Pinterest made its internet debut in March of 2010. The photo blog grew from the 418,000 users in May of 2011 to just under 5 million users in November 2011. With Pinterest being one of the 10 most popular social media websites it is the social media craze of the year.