- Understanding Social Networking
- Using Facebook on Your iPad
- Using Pinterest on Your iPad
- Using Twitter on Your iPad
- Using LinkedIn on Your iPad
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Using Pinterest on Your iPad
Facebook isn’t the only social network that may interest you. Pinterest is a newer, different type of social network with particular appeal to middle-aged and older women—although there are a growing number of male users, too.
Unlike Facebook, which lets you post text-based status updates, Pinterest is all about images. The site consists of a collection of virtual online boards that people use to share pictures they find interesting. Users “pin” or save photos and other images to their personal message boards, and then they share their pins with online friends.
You can save images of anything—clothing, furniture, recipes, do-it-yourself projects, and the like. Your Pinterest friends can then “repin” your images to their boards—and on and on.
Like Facebook, Pinterest is totally free to use. You access Pinterest from the Pinterest app.
View and Save Pins
You can download the Pinterest app, for free, from Apple’s App Store. The first time you launch the app, you’re prompted to either sign into an existing account (if you have one) or create a new account. Follow the onscreen instructions to proceed from there.
Tap the Pinterest icon to launch the Pinterest app. You see a variety of pins.
The pins in your feed include items pinned by people you follow, as well as recommended pins from Pinterest. Tap a pin to view it full screen.
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Press and hold a pin to display the command icons.
Keep your finger pressed to the screen and move it to the Save icon to save this item to one of your boards.
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Accept or edit the current description of the item.
Scroll down and select which board you want to save to (or tap Create Board to pin to a new board). The item is then saved to that board.
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Pin from a Website
Many Pinterest users find images outside of Pinterest to pin to their boards. When you see an image on a website, you can easily pin it to a Pinterest board.
From the Safari web browser, navigate to the web page that contains the image you want to pin and then tap the Share icon in the browser to display the Share panel.
Tap Pinterest to display the Pick an Image panel. (If you don’t see the Pinterest icon, tap More to display it.)
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You see thumbnails of all available images on that web page. Tap the thumbnail you want to pin.
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Accept or edit the description for this pin.
Tap the board you want to pin to (or tap Create Board to pin to a new board). The selected image is pinned to that board on Pinterest.
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