How to Invite Your Friends to Pinterest

One of the best parts of any social network is interacting with all of your friends. Pinterest is relatively new and is still gaining popularity, so all of your friends may not necessarily have their own accounts. Pinterest allows you to use your e-mail and social network contacts from a variety of different services to invite your friends to create their own accounts on the rising social network. You can accomplish this by following just a few steps using tools that are present on your main Pinterest account page.

Step 1

Click the “Username” button in the upper right corner of your main Pinterest homepage. Instead of literally saying the word “Username,” the label on the button will be your own first name. Click the “Invite Friends” button in the drop down menu to continue.

Step 2

If you know the e-mail addresses of some friends that you’d like to invite to Pinterest, enter those e-mail addresses into the boxes on screen at this time. You can send Pinterest invites in waves of four at a time. Compose a personal message to the specified friends in the box at the bottom of the screen. Click the red button labeled “Send Invites” to send each of those specified friends a new invitation e-mail, complete with the personal message you composed.

Step 3

Click the “Facebook” button on the left side of the screen to invite friends to Pinterest using your Facebook contacts. You can click on the names of friends in the window that appears to automatically send out invitations. You can also search for a friend by name, similar to the way you would do so if you were actually logged in to your Facebook profile.

Step 4

Click the “Gmail” button on the left side of the screen to invite friends to Pinterest using your Google Gmail account. Click the blue button labeled “Find Friends from Gmail” on the page that loads to start browsing through your Gmail contacts list for people you want to invite to the Pinterest service. Select the name of a person to send him a personalized Pinterest invitation.

Step 5

Click the button labeled “Yahoo!” on the left side of the screen to invite people from your Yahoo e-mail contacts list to the Pinterest service. The page that loads will operate identically to the one that were loaded in the “Gmail” step.