Pinterest and Diigo

This week, I will be comparing two social bookmarking websites: Diigo and Pinterest. I had opened a Pinterest account a long time ago, but I did not quite figure out how it works, so I deactivated my account. This week, I have watched a few tutorials on how Pinterest works, and actually it turned out to be pretty straightforward. Diigo, on the other hand, is a little bit confusing for me. Both Diigo and Pinterest have their own advantages and limitations.

You create a library in Diigo, where you save websites. You can download a Diigo extension on Chrome, which I found very useful. When you save a website in Diigo, you can go back to it and highlight parts. You can even insert comments. You can follow others, send them messages, or you can create groups in Diigo. While you are saving a website in Diigo, you can enter a description and multiple tags. You can also see other people’s tags and websites that they have saved.  

You create boards on Pinterest and save your websites on these boards. Link to your saved websites are found right below the images you saved on your boards, so you can click on it and read further. You can follow other people and their boards. You can repin something that someone has pinned. You can send messages to others and leave comments under their saved images. Pinterest offers you suggestions based on your pins and boards.

Diigo has a more academic feeling, while Pinterest is much more fun. I will definitely continue to use Pinterest. I will create more boards and discover new things. I also like checking out other people’s boards and see what they have. You get a lot of ideas while doing this. I will use Pinterest to save classroom ideas and come back to these as needed. I also love the website design of Pinterest. You can spend hours on Pinterest. There is a lot to discover! I think I will use Diigo when I work on a research paper. In the past, I used to bookmark the websites that I wanted to go back to, but it was not very well organized, and it was not enough. I can save websites in my Diigo library, highlight parts of the text, insert comments and tags. It is a perfect platform for this purpose.