Pinterest

A picture image may not actually speak to you with sound but surely has a profound impact on how you think it speaks to you and what it makes you feel like.  Much of today’s social media sites allow users to post pictures instead of just comments, or using them together which can be even greater.  An ever growing social media site that I think speaks to each person in the most personalized way is Pinterest. This site has affordances that include an organized imaged environment that can be captured on your mobile devices or PC's. It also has the ability to post pictures that pertain to your most favorite categories and allows you to repost on your own account for the purpose sharing common interests.  The user can comment or re-caption an image to make it their own.  Because this site is so easy, stimulating, and entertaining, it makes learning from others by way of information sharing that much greater!

But how would you have found these awesome pictures and images so easily? Pinterest curates and filters information by categorizing images to certain topics that best suit and interest you. This way, you are not surfing this site for hours trying to find what speaks to you the most.  All you have to do is find a category that you love, search it, like it, and/or “pin” pictures that you want to save for your own site and share with others.  You can even search other people’s accounts within your category interest and other recommended sites will be offered.  You may come across different categories you may have no initially thought! According to the article about curating and filtering by Teresa Gorman, the purpose of curating information is to “gather of the [images] in once place that are most accurate and the most relevant.” She also states that by filtering through such pictures, you are able to “expand” the information more as its relevance increases. The content of information that people post is “overwhelming” so you need a site that give you what you are looking for without having to suffer through the clutter.  This is another affordance of Pinteterst that narrows down what you are looking for and pleases you faster and with more satisfaction. Pinterest lets you relax and have fun, and the best way this site allows this is through curating and filtering the information and images for YOU!