Pinterest doesn't want to be a social network anymore

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April 23, 2017, 9:46 am

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Pinterest doesn't want to be a social network anymore

Pinterest is certainly a one of a kind social media platform. Apparently, they also realized that and began starting to evolve into something else, away from the classic concept of a social media network.

This is why they removed the "like" button recently and also because there wasn't really a clear difference between the save button and the like button, everything is way more clear now, especially for the users.

In my opinion, Facebook wants to put as much as space possible between them and Facebook. Every social network that came into contact with facebook and their market share got into trouble at one point of the other. It seems to me that Pinterest doesn't want to give Facebook any ideas or reasons to pick on them and copy their ideas like they did with other social networks in the past. They want to be a "discovery platform" not a social network in which people connect.

I believe Pinterest have huge potential in terms of selling power, they could totally evolve into an ecommerce funnel platform.

What do you think? Is Pinterest afraid of Facebook?

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vinaya

I have a Pinterest business account, however, I have not checked this site since a long time, therefore, I had not realized that they removed like button. I never considered Pinterest to be a social network. It is, of course, a social media, where you can socialize with other people by checking their contents and interaction with their contents, however, it does not have social networking elements like traditional social networks. Pinterest is more of a content curation platform.

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kgord

I used to try to display my blog link on Pinterest but they never seemed to pick it up for some reason so I was always getting disappointed. Oh well..I guess I can find other sites to try. I like to go there just to look around. It is a good site for that.

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Corzhens

Maybe it’s a good idea for Pinterest to shift their focus to e-commerce. That’s one good way of putting a distance between them and Facebook. At least Pinterest will have a different color and businesses will be coming in if in the event that it becomes a portal for businesses. It’s not an easy task though but with enough budget and promotional strategy, Pinterest can do it in a year or two. But the question is when will they start to do it?

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Pinterest doesn't want to be a social network anymore

Pinterest doesn't want to be a social network anymore

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