Is Pinterest the next Napster?

Re:Is Pinterest the next Napster? by mindslight on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:08PM (#3704477)

Is someone running a negative PR campaign against Pinterest? Or is this really all an organic result of the uncriticalthinking media echo chamber?

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Re:Is Pinterest the next Napster? by qq66 on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:19PM (#3704545)

That was my initial thought. Whose interest is it to run a negative PR campaign against Pinterest?

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Re:Is Pinterest the next Napster? by mindslight on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:32PM (#3704628)

Somebody who's been pinned one too many times? Somebody who's not been pinned and feels left out? Somebody who's normally used to being the only one doing any kind of forceful pinning in this town? The male-dominated Silicon Valley insiders looking to repress the fledgling feminine curation site? The Paypal Mafia?

    !!!!!!!!  STORY AT 11  !!!!!!!!

My personal bet would be just the media echo chamber ("They have a story about X? We need a story about X!") combined with a persistent lawyer who's stuck in the uncanny valley of abstraction - well past common sense but still not knowing when you're suffering from Gödel's curse, but who knows.

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Re:Is Pinterest the next Napster? by qq66 on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @03:12PM (#3704823)

The last time I thought this, though, the stories were being planted by Facebook PR to slam Google+.

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Re:Is Pinterest the next Napster? by mindslight on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @03:28PM (#3704899)

Sorry, I wasn't really trying to strongly disagree. I just started writing and it became more of a commentary on the media and people who think they're righting the world, but are really trapped in Blub.

It could actually totally could be Facebook again, especially given how the narrative is all about individual users being at risk. It seems like interaction on Pinterest would diminish a segment of mass-market Facebook usage. Spread some FUD to make people think using new 'untested' social sites could possibly subject one to liabilities, meanwhile attempt to fill the demand for Pinterest-style interaction with new features.

Actually, now that I think about it more, isn't Pinterest directly monetizing what Facebook has always claimed to be able to monetize sometime in the future?

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Re:Is Pinterest the next Napster? by lux on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:30PM (#3704608)

Theirs even? Being "the next Napster" tells a story the media will pick up, which further gets the word out for them, and isn't exactly the worst thing to be called if you want to look cool... :)

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Re:Is Pinterest the next Napster? by taylorbuley on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @02:49PM (#3704709)

Media are just starting to hit the peak of inflated expectations (heard "the social network that could be the next Facebook" on my local news last night).

Next up: trough of disillusionment

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

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