

As a teen during a pandemic - it’s literally like handing them a loaded gun without instructions. “ As a fully formed adult, this can be hard to deal with. You will even get emails reminding you to see new “pins on depression. And that is now top of the queue every single time you log in and no matter how many times after you search for rainbows, unicorns and abundance, the search recommendations will always have something there to draw one back into terrible content. Click on ONE of those and it opens up a new page of more and more terrible stuff on suicide, drug use, depression. AND if one day your child searches for a Halloween costume based on slightly edgy but a movie we watched together “nightmare before christmas” search string a number of neat costumes come up accompanied by a number of edgier costumes including some that suggest self harm. We thought it was a hobbyist site for makers to share stuff. My only use of this site had literally been for a few recipes and home remodeling ideas. Our 13 yo daughter signed up for this during the pandemic. We very very nearly lost our daughter to this app. I will take heat here for being “irresponsible” although my spouse and I try our very best.

You will even get emails reminding you of updates to horrific content. And the site will keep populating that content for you once the “artificial intelligence” determines that is your interest. The algorithms on this site can lead to horrific, traumatic content on suicide, death and drug use. Although its features aren’t identical to the original app’s, you can still use all of Pinterest’s most popular functionalities without any trouble.Parent warning to anyone with a child using this app. Pinterest Lite is a fantastic app that brings the Pinterest experience to Android devices, no matter how modest. Another one of its appeals is its themed search feature since the search engine lets you access the most popular searches, or you can look for whatever comes to mind. This is why so many people are using Pinterest regularly. With this Lite app, you can create boards, save pins or even make group boards. Browsing is really easy-there are four tabs at the bottom to access the homepage, boards or the people that you follow, your notifications and profile. Since it hardly takes up any space, its performance is excellent. Like Instagram Lite, this streamlined version of Pinterest is an adaptation of the web version designed for mobile devices. Enjoy this social media platform’s themed boards on an app that only takes up 1MB on your device.

Pinterest Lite brings the best features of Pinterest to modest terminals.
