Why Should I Follow Someone on Pinterest?

After a friend of mine introduced me to Pinterest it took me a little while to get going on my Pinterest account. One of the reasons why was because I hit a mental block. I had an account, but had no idea what to do with it. I didn’t know what type of boards I wanted to create, so I couldn’t pin. I needed a start.

One of the first boards I created for myself was a board called “Recipes I MUST Try”. I knew that I had found a few different recipes that I wanted to pin, so it seemed like creating a board to contain these recipes would be a good start. As I started finding recipes that I pinned to my recipe board, I found that I had similar taste in recipes to a few different people. It occurred to me that I should start following their recipe board. That way, when they post new recipes they want to try I can see what they are and repin the recipes to my recipe board.

It worked like a charm. Moments after I started following several recipe boards, I noticed that my home page on Pinterest was full of recipes pinned by the boards I was following. I loved the instant access I had to see new recipes, and not have to do the work of finding them for myself.

Another great perk to following another Pinterest member is that you can see everything they pin if you have common interests. I had several coworkers that had similar interests as me, or siblings I wanted to follow. Rather than deciding each individual board I wanted to follow. I decided to follow each of their accounts. This means that I was following everything they pinned, rather than just an individual board.

TIP: Although it is much easier to Follow All on an individual, you may quickly find out that you don’t have a lot of similar interests. If your interest for their boards is isolated, click the Follow button for each individual board rather than following all of their Pinterest boards.