
What business owners will hate about Pinterest:
1. More social media!
It’s yet another social network you have to worry about.2. It can eat your time
It’s very compelling and therefore easy to get sucked in. This blog has taken me four hours to write – three of which evaporated in a cloud of vicarious Pinterest board surfing.3. It can be fake
4. They hijack your efforts to make money
Pinterest appends affiliate links to some pins (products featured on Amazon and eBay, for example). They don’t declare this in their terms of use. Sneaky.5. It’s a copyright minefield
Though its terms and conditions are very specific in that they prohibit members from posting copyrighted material without the copyright holder’s consent, the majority of Pinterest users will violate this element of the T&Cs because people tend to not to read them before accepting. The main issue is that Pinterest stores near full-size copies of images on its server, rather than the more regular thumbnail images associated with other social networks, which are usually covered under copyright “fair use”.Share this story