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Here's Why My Mother-In-Law (Like Millions Of Others) Is Obsessed With The Latest Internet Phenomenon, Pinterest

Nicholas Carlson | Jan. 18, 2012, 12:45 PM | 5,057 | 8

Pinterest is very popular and getting more so by the day. Users visited the site 11 million times during just one week in December. Its growth trajectory looks a lot like Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr's.

Why is this happening? Yesterday, we explained Pinterest's very effective and sticky user sign-up process.

But more important than all that is the fact that Pinterest's popularity seems to have started with the "normals" rather than early adopters.

The first time I heard of Pinterest, it was when my wife signed up on the recommendation of her mother last Spring.

That is remarkable!

My mother-in-law is plenty "with it." She's kept a blog and a Facebook account for years and reads her books on a Kindle. But she's not the kind of person that is typically the first person I hear about using the latest new social media site. She's not a San Francisco or Brooklyn hipster or a Silicon Valley product manager.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-my-mother-in-law-and-millions-of-others-are-obsessed-with-the-latest-internet-phenomena-pinterest-2012-1#ixzz1jso8KgiU