Pinterest and Social Media

I'd been holding out for a couple of weeks, but finally started a pinterest board. http://pinterest.com/emilycudmore/ Check it out. It's actually kinda cool. You create these virtual inspiration boards and upload and "pin up" things that peak your interest, inspire you, motivate you, make you laugh, thing, discover, etc. etc...
I created a couple of boards.
The concept is actually quite clever if you think about it. Social media as a venue for sharing yourself and how you want people to view you. I feel many people are searching to be understood and accepted the way they are and it's easy to expose certain sides of yourself via the internet. That's why things like initially myspace and facebook took off. Plus it was a way to connect with all these people. Facebook started off a little different as the college connection social media board and you only connected to people in college. I'm trying to remember when that changed and it opened to everyone and now there are all types of Networks that you can be associated with through it. I never deleted my myspace account, however I haven't logged onto it in over 2 years.
Now there are new waves and sites utilizing the social media platforms. Things like twitter Stylized Movement's Twitter and My Personal Twitter , and linked in, google +, pinterest. Facebook is constantly changing it's face, (ironically enough) and recently went public... so we'll have to see how things change more over the next few weeks.