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I recently found an old board in my Pinterest profile that was filled with inspiration for decorating my dorm room for my first year in college. That was from five years ago.
I'd been using Pinterest well before then, and still do today, to save everything from travel tips and clothes to recipes for healthy eating and photography. I even have a board dedicated to keeping tabs on what different family members might like for a Christmas gift. The site is my saving grace.
So ever since Instagram waded into the "pinning" waters last year, adding a Pinterest-like way for users to save and organize content (dubbed Instagram Collections,) I've been skeptical that it could live up to one of the pioneers of the digital bulletin board.
Taking into account that Pinterest has historically been known for curation and Instagram for its photo-sharing and social aspect, I compared the two and focused on two big points: how I was able to save and organize posts on both platforms and the quality of content curation on each app. I concluded that both have their respective purposes, depending on what you're using them for.
