Blocking a Follower on Pinterest.

Updated on January 25, 2013
J.T. asks from Victoria, TX
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I am asking on behafe of another friend. How can you or even are you able to block someone from viewing your pintrest account? I tried searching on pintrest. But I am not lookingin the right places??? and she cant figure it out either!

Back story My friend (well call her Bonnie ) was business partners with her very good friend (we will call her Diane ). When Bonnies husbands job moved him out of town several hours away she split from the business (legally and fairly). Well it wasnt a congrats going away party. In fact it was a bitter friendship break up deal? Very odd but non the less.... Now Diane who still owns the business has a pintrest account. The women arent following each other but Dianes husband is following Bonnie but not Diane and has 50 other followers ,from all over the world, no one that he actually would likely know. No other friends just Bonnie. I think those fifty other friends are given by pintrest when you start your account and pintrest states"you may be intreasted in foloowing thes pp". Its all very odd. They arent on speaking terms and arent on any other fb accunts and are blocked from Bonnies accounts. I know both parties and I still do business with Diane (truthfuly I am related to one and the other was in our wedding. Both parties are involved in my life and I think its very odd the husband even has a pintrest account. ) Not only is it odd for him to have the account but for the husband and wife not to be following each other and the husband only following Bonnie. Its creepy and seems like he only made the account to watch what she is doing. And it might be Diane using his name to follow her??? Non the less Bonnie would prefer not to have him able to follow her. I am sorry if this seems more confusing than it should if so just answer the top question. But she has good reason to want to block him. Trust me its out of place.

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Momapedia you bitter sweet site. I thank those who gave answers with out judgment or a slap on the way out. I gave the back story because I try to predict the negative back lash and figured if I didnt give back story I would get replys like "why whould any one need to block someone on pintrest"? So I gave the back story and still got a bit of bite to the answer. All but one could be adult about it and give a straight answer. Bitter sweet momas!

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I.G.

answers from Seattle on

To block someone on Pinterest:
1. Go to his/her profile.
2. Click the flag icon on the right-hand side of their profile information.
3. On the menu, click Block.
4. Confirm that you really want to block the person.

However.... as long as her board is a public board, that person can still just punch in the URL or google it... I don't even have a pintrest account, but frequent certain public boards all the time.
For pintrest as for any other social media: if you don't want the person you don't like to read it... don't put it online!

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V.P.

answers from Columbus on

Click on the person's name and go to their profile. There is a little flag in the bottom right -- The menu from that flag will give you a series of options, with block it being at the far bottom.
Hope that helps!

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J.J.

answers from San Francisco on

I use a fake name on Pinterest & my real friends that know are ok with this...
I do this because my brothers ex wife is CRAZY & I know she's goggled my name looking for any kind of info she can get.

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J.M.

answers from Philadelphia on

why does it matter? its not like he can see anything except crafs she likes?

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M.R.

answers from Seattle on

I'm curious what the business or crafty thing on Pinterest is? Is the party that moved trying to scoop ideas for their own?

anytime, anyone, goes on-line and puts up anything personal, like photos or business ideas, you are opening yourself up to the public eye and you lose a lot of control over who can/cannot see your personal business.

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L.M.

answers from Cleveland on

Around christmas time pinterest debute (sp) hidden boards. So if you were planning gifts for xmas or a surprise bday. You could keep it private. I don't know if that is something for your friend or not. I never knew u could block someone so I found this helpful. I would just create a fake account-name and not have it connected to fb.

I also didn't realize until recently that. If I title a mamapedia post. Purple popsicles and someone googles purple popsicles. That my mamapedia post will pop up. Some how I thought you cound only search with in this site guess not.

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