Pinterest Fail
I have deactivated my Pinterest account. I am sad that it came down to this but the platform was not conducive to allowing for me to have some sort of control over my account. My problem? Group invites. I get that people use groups on social networking sites like crazy. I do not. Matter of fact the only group I belong in online is related to our Temple and that is for communication purposes between board meetings. I do not do any group anywhere else because I don’t have any time to contribute anything to a group. I have joined some in the past and I end up leaving within a week or two because I don’t feel like anything more than a lurker.
I had contacted Pinterest because I had someone consistently slamming me with group invites. This is someone who was following my boards but I was not following theirs. I had asked politely for the invites to stop. I was ignored. I asked not-so-politely and I was ignored. I contacted Pinterest and was told there are no features for blocking group invites available and anyone at anytime could send me 50 invites a day. Yea, that don’t fly with me at all. I loved Pinterest for organizing rituals, meal planning, DIY inspiration, and holiday planning. But I don’t love it enough to have to be consistently bombarded with group invites.
If you are on Pinterest and enjoy groups, be respectful. If someone asks you to stop sending invites, stop. And for the love of all things holy, don’t send an invite to a random person. Try contacting them and asking if they are interested.
That bites! I didn’t even know Pinterest had groups, no one has ever sent me an invite. You are complete right about people being respectful about sending invites to others. Facebook has a similar problem with group invites because it just automatically adds you.
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I wasn’t aware that you were able to interact with people like that on Pinterest. I don’t get invites and I’m not sad for it. Pinterest is my internet file cabinet and nothing more. It’s a shame people spam everything online so much that it becomes more of a hassle than a helper. I’m sure you can block people on the site; every site has that feature. Maybe you can try Google+, I have it but I haven’t messed with it enough to make proper use of all its tools. Good luck hon and bright future my dear!
It’s a fairly new feature on Pinterest. I agree about FB, I have only been put into a group once without prior knowledge and that really ticked me off.
Pinterest does not allow you to block anyone. It’s in their Support documents as well as the emails I received from them. They refuse at this point to even allow any blocking feature, including not allowing for group invites (which is all I wanted anyway).
G+ is simply put, NOT Pinterest. I liked my boards because I could organize rituals on there and visually see how it came together. G+ has burned me in that it is a link farm and I am not too interested in a link farm. It also doesn’t really have a board format unless I decide to take pictures of everything and put it into an album.
If Pinterest ever allows any user controls when it comes to groups, then I will consider activating my account again. But until then, I would rather not have the hassle.