“Loads of traffic for what? You see any advertising on my site? Any products for sale? Any consulting services being offered?”

…how come, having read your post, I now know that you’re a film maker who does corporate shoots and weddings, etc.? Should we assume that you now have stopped offering those services?

I have a mixture of boards on Pinterest – a “business” How To Write Better board (which mostly links back to about 250 articles of free writing advice on my site) two humor boards (and funny, not those limp-d*ck proverbs and sayings) and one about horses which I love.

You’d be surprised how many people are now following all my boards, even though one is “spammy” (oh, naughty, naughty, I advertise three of my own books. Consider my wrist slapped.)

Anyway, as Nikki rightly says, if people on Pinterest don’t want to see or follow commercially based boards it just takes one click to vaporize them. I am really getting fed up with people whining about “spam” and “commercialization of SocMed” when it’s so easy to avoid looking at what you don’t want to see. Have people develop mass total allergy syndrome to the “delete” key?

I agree with him in some respects that yes, the marketers are taking over ie the grubby peddlers of internet magic bullets. But that’s a good thing. They only descend on places that work, that have community and where people are active. They did it with Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus (insert plug for G+ book here* ) and now Pinterest.

We have choices, if we don’t like it… move.

*am the author of the G+ 30 day challenge

@Srinivas, yes, get there and get there fast, interact, be involved, the interaction there is awesome, more so than on FB where I have family and friends! And with them passing the 100,000,000 milestone last week, in just a few months, it pays to be there.

Add to this, the fact that FB have finally decided to float an IPO, we are seeing them taking their profits quickly, does this indicate fear? I think so!