Your Pinterest Repins May Not Be In Your Best Interest!

Your Pinterest Repins May Not Be In Your Best Interest!

We love Pinterest.  It's really handy for us to keep track of various sites, an extra avenue to promote our blog posts and reach a different audience who loves photos.  Pinterest is growing faster than just about anything, but today we found something we really didn't care for at all.

We love to see Likes and Repins on our Pinterest entries, and one of our habits is to go to the Repins and explore the other person's boards.  Frankly we're not likely to do a lot of following boards or people overall (our social media slate is already pretty full), but we do try to Like a photo or two to reciprocate.

But today checking out the Repins by a certain person didn't make us happy at all.  We found a board full of supposed Real Estate related items, although what was posted was as often as not pictures of real estate agents from their websites repinned.  That by itself would be fine, but we're crying FOUL because of the same comment applied to EVERY photo on the board, basically a solicitation and a link to another one of those "'Learn how to sell your home fast using sites on the Internet without the help of those Vulture brokers!" sites.  The photo of the board owner is obviously a stock photo and her name appears nowhere else on Google EXCEPT on Pinterest.  Seriously, in this day and age any adult can't help but be found on multiple sites.  And when you click through to the site listed, it's some fast talking guy.  Yep, the whole thing appears spammy and stinks like dead fish in the hot sun.

We've blocked the person(??) to keep them from pinning any more of our posts.  Left a comment on the pins that we thought the use was inappropriate, and flagged the account to Pinterest.  Hopefully they do close this fake account, but obviously there's not much to stop someone from repeating it with a new fake name.

So basically, just a word (or 300+) of warning to watch how your Repins are being used.  Are they FOR your business, or AGAINST? 

Social media, mostly good, but you've got to watch for the bad too! 

Serving Warren County's residential real estate needs, 

Liz and Bill aka BLiz