Dave Copeland gives you a guy’s opinion on Pinterest. This and more in today’s Daily Wrap.
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A Guy’s Guide To Pinterest
Pinterest users are more likely to be female, but today ReadWriteWeb writer, Dave Copeland, decided to venture into the visually oriented social bookmarking site to give you a man’s point of view. From signing up to actually pinning some items, take a look at his first thoughts about the site.
From the comments:
Jeff Downer — “I suppose that women being the early adopters of Pinterest says something about women and visual stimulus. It must indicate something about men’s brains being different than women’s.
What that may be I’ll leave to smarter and wiser folks than me.”
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