Tim Dowling 

Is Pinterest a man-free zone?

Some 97% of Pinterest's Facebook fans are women. So is there anything to interest men on the site?
  
  


The runaway popularity of photo-sharing site Pinterest, on which users mount images on virtual "pinboards", is generating some impressive statistics. Here's a key one: 97% of Pinterest's Facebook fans are women. Tucked among the millions of pinboards of crafts, clothes, cupcakes and cats, is there anything on Pinterest for men? Let's see …

Heineken keg R2D2 model. Typing "Star Wars" and "beer" into Pinterest's search engine seemed the quickest way to get started, but this model robot, made from a five-litre party barrel, was actually pinned by a woman.

• A cool picture of a guy cycling with his bike tyres on fire. A man put this one up, natch.

• Interesting knives. From a board entitled "Sharp and pointy".

Sheds. Mostly twee and largely pinned by women, but worth sifting through.

• Very expensive trainers. Like many objects of male interest, the best of these can be tracked down just by searching for the comment "Sick!"

 

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