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I agree! I don't want people seeing my wedding inspiration! I'm holding back all the real photos I have.. I wish we could keep people from following us!
And good luck and many good thoughts with your husband! I know this feeling all too well (job searching).
Ugh, I'm the same way with wedding stuff. Nobody knows that we are thinking about getting engaged soon, so it was embarassing when people started following my wedding idea board.
I would just make the folder titled "Maybe someday" or something similar just so they don't jump to conclusions.
Ladies, its time to make ghost accounts- I do NOT want my friends knowing knowing where I got my insperations from ;)
They're not actually following you necessarily. Whenever one of your contacts joins pinterest, it follows their friends automatically, whether they view the items or not.
Agreed. I think it's really annoying, especially when it's random fb friends I barely talk to.
Was gonna say the same thing as @Miss Longcoat. It's kind of awkward, too, because it makes me wonder how many people got e-mails when I joined pinterest telling them that I'm following them.... Pinterest automatically tells Facebook friends you're following them which is why you get emails about random "friends" following you.
UGH! I feel your pain! We are pregnant and I want to pin all sorts of baby stuff but don't want any one to get any ideas! So I have been holding back but it has been killing me!
Lol @JessieK I've soo been thinking about a ghost account.
and @Miss Longcoat that is true. I know a lot of them joined and it said they were following me but I can tell they're never on. But I do have a pretty fair amount of friends that are repinning and commenting on my other pins, so I know they see the baby ones :P
@MrsMeNow Haha, I titled it "Someday for Baby Swank" I'm thinking of renaming it "For Someday Baby Swank"
Hmmm...well when I joined pinterest I got to choose which of my facebook friends I wanted to follow...it didn't automatically follow all of them. Maybe it's changed though. I agree, I don't want people all up in my baby board!
Whoa, I love the idea of a ghost account. There's like 10 random fb friends getting married and are like- oh I'm doing that too thanks for the idea! Um hello rando I haven't talke to in forever!
@PennyLainne Are you meaning you don't want them to know you're pregnant yet or you don't want them to take your ideas? Lol, because there's also a small part of me that doesn't want people to jack my nursery ideas. Oh Gawd, I'm such a spazz. Someone put me out of my misery!
ETA: I'm glad I wasn't on pinterest when I was planning my wedding. It would drive me nuts to see everyone doing the same things as me. Although I know a lot of the wedding ideas floating around are super popular and everyone is doing them, it's probably the same for nursery decorating. I just don't want to SEE that I'm unoriginal, like right there in my face! :P
Yup. Feel your pain. I have an extreme case of the baby rabies but I don't want to pin anything just in case people start to make assumptions.
I totally agree... my friend gave me an invite and after a few weeks said "WOW you have a lot of wedding stuff.............." (not engaged yet, but soon~). Now I have fb friends I haven't talked to in years starting to follow me, and I feel self conscious of everything I post!
A ton of facebook friends I have not talked to in years have started following my pinterest. I feel odd because I'm pinning things that give away my overall wedding feel...and these are people that wont be at my wedding. I think some people started following me because I have talked about my wedding so infrequently on facebook. You probably wouldnt know I'm getting married besides the fact that it says "engaged"...and I know how a few of these girls are, they are using it to snoop!
I got to pick and choose who I followed when I signed up, but that was a long time ago. I don't want people who wouldn't even say Hi to me in the grocery store know how I want to decorate my house, what I want to cook for dinner, what's going on with my uterus...lol. I understand that it's a social networking site...but booooo....
I tried making a ghost account and you HAVE to have it linked to a facebook or twitter account, and then you can opt to "unlink" it afterwards (Something I should have done in the beginning of signing up, now it's too late, damage is done and everyone and their mother is following me!) I'm thinking of making a fake twitter or something just for Pinterest because I love it so much lol.
@swanks4tw: Both lol. I don't want the FB community to know yet but I don't want everyone seeing out nursery plans yet either.
AHH, I feel the same way! One of FI's cousins is getting married right before us and I peeked at her Pinterest Wedding board and HALF of my ideas are on hers as well!!
I totally had mine made before she even got engaged FYI ;)
I totally “lol’ed” when I saw this thread since I’ve been complaining about this to DH for weeks. Somehow in the last like 2 weeks pinterest completely blew up. I liked that I was one of very few people that I knew IRL who used it. It was kinda like my own little DIY haven. Well, now every god damn female on my FB has joined and is “following me”. I’m sure they’re very confused to see nursery inspirations boards and what not. I pin things that I like and want to remember whether I’ll be using the idea today or in 10 years from now. I’ve already gotten comments like “I see you’ve been liking some baby stuff. Do you have something to tell us?”. YES, I do have something to tell you. Stop looking at my boards and mind your own f’ing business! Sheesh! I had a few people request an invite since they’ve been on the waiting list for a while and I somehow always manage to “forget” to send them one.
how long does it take to get off the waiting list- do any of you ladies know? I went on the other day and added myself (I've never heard of Pintrest until I read about it on the bee).. or could anyone invite me? I'm almost positive I don't know any of you IRL! I'd love to start some secret wedding/ baby pinning! lol
Welp, I was going to give up pinterest for the day, but then weddingbee went down, so I gave in. Oh well :)
In other news, DH thinks the interview went super well (and he's one of those perpetually realistic people) So I guess we'll wait and see what happens. Like I said, we're fine if he doesn't get it but I'm still crossing my fingers and toes. I feel good about it.
I'm actually having this same issue! Mostly with the fact that there are some people that I'm not friends with AT ALL that have decided to follow me. One girl is a friend of a friend and has never been anything but completely bitchy and nasty to me, so i can't understand why she'd care what is on my pinterest! She better not leach wedding ideas from me for said friend's wedding!
@missjamie143 I think I got mine the same day or the next day. If you wanna PM me, I'll send you an invite :)
@CaitMarae Hahahaha, my sentiments exactly. Every. Last. God. Damned. One.
This is why I wish there was an option to have a private board! We're TTC in secret so I've been browsing for months and it's so hard to resist the urge to pin!
@swanks4tw - It's been days.. so I've pm'd you, thanks!
Hope your DH lands the job, i'm crossing all crossables =)
I was able to not link the two (and actually I think you can unlink them but you have to choose to do that now) and Im glad because I have a board called "My Future Family" that I dont want all my real life people to see!
I wish that there was a private option too. I don't like being followed.
i understand that keeping pinterest "private" would defeat the purpose of pinterest... but i totally don't want people i know and people who are coming to my wedding knowing too much about what im doing.
when i signed up i didn't want to link it to my facebook, but i couldn't figure out how to get around it! very frustrating.
I don't even have my Pinterest linked to FB and I got followed by someone on my friends list the other day! I have no idea how the heck she found me, I must have repinned something from a mututal friend or something? I didn't want it posting to FB every single time I pinned something, and didn't want my nosy previous inlaws to see everything about my wedding...and I absolutely do NOT want anyone from my FB to find me on weddingbee! Online world, so tricky!
Ugh I hate this! I understand that a lot of the wedding ideas circulating on pinterest are quite popular right now, but I STILL DON"T WANT ANYONE TO SEE SPECIFIC IDEAS OF WHAT I WANT TO DO! To even make it worse, I have an aunt who thinks that her daughter is going to get proposed to soon, and so she is already getting wedding ideas..... OFF MY WEDDING BOARD! UGH! I've stopped pinning wedding ideas and instead taking pictures of the ideas with my phone. And like some of the others on here, I don't want any of my FB friends to find me on Weddingbee....is there a way to change my display name on here? I made it too personal :(
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...Now they all know I have an extreme case of baby fever! Lol, I've been posting so much on my nursery inspiration board I'm just waiting for rumors to start.
On the plus side, DH has a second interview today for a job that actually has health benefits, so TTC might not be years away like I thought it would. Aaand I'm not reading into it too much but last night at the store he wanted to take a stroll through the baby furniture. I'm just sayin' :P
*sigh* I would love to spend my entire day pinning adorable baby things, but I really don't want all of my friends to know that I'm already obsessing over an imaginary baby. Ah well, I'll find something else to do. Hehe, maybe I'll actually get some work done.
If you think about it, keep those fingers crossed for my husband. I'm hoping he gets the job. He already has a great one, but the raise and health benefits would be so huge to us!