Hi Paul,

Pinterest is a site where you 'Pin' images that you like to boards that you have created.

I.e. 'My Dream Home' would contain images that you have found online of settings/items that you would like your dream home to consist of.

Then, like Twitter, you follow people and others follow you - when you login, you can see items that others have like and your followers can see items that you have pinned. You then have the option to repin, follow, like (again, much like Twitter)

The main issue with Pinterest is that alot of the same content gets passed around as many users are too lazy to take the step of pinning items that they have found around the web - instead, they just repin items from those that they follow.

To get an invite, just go to Pinterest.com and request one, they will send you one directly.

I hope that helps.

Suzy.