How Pinterest Will Transform the Web in 2012

Re:How Pinterest Will Transform the Web in 2012 by there on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @01:07PM (#3425142)

so basically, people are getting dumber and lazier. writing a thoughtful weblog post took too much time and effort, so twitter dumbed it down to 140 characters. that is apparently still too much effort, so pinterest wants to enable people to use "push button content generation" to just duplicate stuff they see ("generate content") onto a stream that others can see and duplicate themselves.

maybe they could make a browser plugin that lets users grunt at things to "generate content".

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Re:How Pinterest Will Transform the Web in 2012 by KevinEldon on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @03:36PM (#3425792)

No. People are using a tool that helps them share and collect ideas to improve their lives, particularly people who aren't geeks. I've seen numerous examples of women enjoying content on Pinterest (content backed by blog posts, comments, curated collections, etc.) and using the ideas they see there to create new things... a hell of a lot of new things. I love it. I love seeing my wife enjoying herself while she creates something new and unique for our family.

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Re:How Pinterest Will Transform the Web in 2012 by MatthewPhillips on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @02:48PM (#3425563)

When in history has creating long form content been a mainstream activity?

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