If you read this blog then you know we have been pretty excited about Pinterest lately, and how we think it represents a new kind of digital ‘scrapbooking’ behavior.  But here is another really nice way to think about the significance of Pinterest (courtesy of the blogger Elad Gil)… in terms of a new, simpler, ‘push-button’ way to be social.  

The shift from long-form to push button social expression reflects a cultural reaction to the exponentially increasing amount of information that is coming at people daily through the internet.  The more and more people have to process, the less time they have to really think.  

Wait, what’s that saying… “a picture says a thousand words?”

Here’s Elad’s post

http://blog.eladgil.com/2011/12/how-pinterest-will-transform-web-in.html