critical degree. Pinterest users who fail to take advantage of home feed filtering (which automatically occurs as soon as images from other users are followed) may have erroneously concluded that the randomly unfiltered flow of indiscriminate images on an public login grid is all that Pinterest contains. Using a Facebook analogy, assuming that the unfiltered Pinterest login grid reflects all available content within Pinterest is similar to opening a Facebook account but then failing to add friends. The login page on either site rarely delivers value without some level of personalization and interaction on the part of the user. Pinterest users principally customize their home feeds by finding and following the images of others. Social Collecting: The Emergence of ‘User-curators’ Zarro and Hall (2012) define Pinterest as a and describe “social collecting” site, how users become and This user-centered “user-curators” “patron-curators” (p.2). perspective allows comparisons of pinner activities to traditional library service tasks as shown in Figure 4, but Zarro and Hall (2012) also note that and patron “the cataloger roles are one and the same in the social collecting model” (p.3). Figure 4. Pinterest Activity and Library Technical Services The ability to arrogate cataloging authority is presumably not the central reason that millions of people create image collections on Pinterest each month. User-curators appear to employ Pinterest to collect and share concepts, large and small, which take the form of images linked either to other Pinterest collections, to sites outside Pinterest
critical degree. Pinterest users who fail to take advantage of home feed filtering (which automatically occurs as soon as images from other users are followed) may have erroneously concluded that the randomly unfiltered flow of indiscriminate images on an public login grid is all that Pinterest contains. Using a Facebook analogy, assuming that the unfiltered Pinterest login grid reflects all available content within Pinterest is similar to opening a Facebook account but then failing to add friends. The login page on either site rarely delivers value without some level of personalization and interaction on the part of the user. Pinterest users principally customize their home feeds by finding and following the images of others. Social Collecting: The Emergence of ‘User-curators’ Zarro and Hall (2012) define Pinterest as a “social collecting” site, and describe how users become “user-curators” and “patron-curators” (p.2). This user-centered perspective allows comparisons of pinner activities to traditional library service tasks as shown in Figure 4, but Zarro and Hall (2012) also note that “the cataloger and patron roles are one and the same in the social collecting model” (p.3). Figure 4. Pinterest Activity and Library Technical Services The ability to arrogate cataloging authority is presumably not the central reason that millions of people create image collections on Pinterest each month. User-curators appear to employ Pinterest to collect and share concepts, large and small, which take the form of images linked either to other Pinterest collections, to sites outside Pinterest
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