Gary wrote:
> Ophelia wrote:
>>
>> Oh take no notice. She is bitching because no one is interested in
>> her beloved Pinterest
>
> OK... time for me to step in here. You and Julie are ganging up on sf
> for no good reason other than maybe past issues.... cat fight.
>
> SF did not turn Julie's message into a pinterest issue.
>
> If you use a real newsreader, go back and read the tread from the
> beginning.
>
> Julie posted her first thing asking about other fruits to use for
> fritters.
>
> SF responded next and included a very helpful link to Pinterest. All
> of the things there were vegan fritter ideas.

No. She *thought* she posted a very helpful link but when I clicked on it,
it brought me to my own Pinterest page. If I had wanted to search Pinterest
for recipes, I would have done that. Had I been interested enough in
Pinterest to know that they did have a search function on there. But I am
not.
>
> From there, the next 5 posts were about pinterest between you, Julie,
> and Imags. SW finally wrote again on post 8 being annoyed that Julie
> dismissed it so quickly. And I don't blame her. Evidently, Julie got
> that crappy looking dates/apple fritters from the same place. When
> she clicked on sf's link, she evidently got the same page and
> stupidly thought that was her home page.

I honestly can't be bothered to click on a bunch of pics of things to get at
a recipe. I do know how to use a search engine. I did in fact do that and
I do in fact have recipes for fritters saved to my computer. I just can't
fathom how Pinterest came into play to begin with. I did not do anything
stupidly. I clicked on sf's link twice and both times it brought me
straight to my page. Why? I don't know. As I said, I don't use Pinterest.
I did put up a few boards one day some time ago after being told how fun it
was. Frankly I didn't see the fun in it and found it cumbersome to use.
But then sf just kept going on and on about how great Pinterest was and how
it was easier to use it to save recipes than bookmarks. I disagreed and I
still do.
>
> I stick up for sf on this one. She was just trying to be helpful and
> you two have dissed her for that? Only on RFC! :-(

I didn't diss her for that. I just don't see why she dragged Pinterest into
this when there are perfectly good search engines. It's like clicking on
one of those links that you think might be helpful only to discover that it
is some weird search engine that you've never heard of before.
>
> Personally, I'd never heard of pinterest before but I liked the page
> that sf gave. It seems like a good way to browse for new recipes. I
> do like to see a pic of what they are talking about rather than just
> text. Most of my real cookbooks have pictures too.

All Pinterest is, is a site where people go to websites and then "pin" them
to boards they have created. Then others can go there and repin the posts.
It all seems very silly to me but I can see how it would appeal to the scrap
booking types because you can decorate your boards and stuff. I can get a
lot more recipes a lot faster by using my search engine. And I don't have
to look at all the pics before clicking on something.