How To Block Someone On Pinterest

Hello friends, Looking for block someone on pinterest?. You can now block someone on pinterest and be safe from spammers and phishers on pinterest. Here many internet users getting some unwanted messages and activities fro m spammers.

In this time most of social media sites allows you to block them from your account to keep secure.

Like facebook and twitter, Pinterest is also one of the fastest growing social media with millions of active users. You can start pinning your favorite topics from internet and interact with your followers.

Here most of spammers sharing some illegal links and malware in pinterest to attack your privacy. So here you need to block them from your account for be safe on social media sites like facebook, twitter and pinterest.

Follow the given tutorial and block all unwanted spammers and phishers on pinterest. Before blocking someone pinterest, Keep in mind : you can't view them profile and repin their pins again to your account.

And also you can't get the list of blocked users in pinterest account.

Pinterest blocking option is more different than other social media sites. Your followers can logout from pinterest and view your recent pins like before.

Once you blocked someone, It is not means you are blocked them completely from pinterest, Still you can view them pins on category feed and other group boards. They can also able to download pinterest images from your profile.

How To Block Someone In Pinterest :

Login to your pinterest account and search for the user using search feature. Pinterest search feature is quit simple to find all followers by typing the users name.

Once you find the profile to block, Open the profile and click on The Flag icon in their profile section. Then it will show you the notification popup in the screen for confirmation. Like below screenshot.

Finally click on the block button to block them on pinterest account. Unlike facebook you can view the blocked users profile again in pinterest. The user can't send messages to your profile. But they will able to view your pins when they browsing feeds.

Pinterest don't have any options to view the blocked users list. But you can search the profile and unblock them directly by opening their profile.

It will show you the unblock option on all blocked profiles. So you can unblock them at anytime you want by just opening their profiles.

Block feature in pinterest is not similar to facebook. It needs to be improve by the pinterest security team.

Because the blocked user can view your boards and pins after you blocked them and they will able to get your pins on the feeds.

Once you blocked the user from pinterest, It will delete all previously pinned pins and repins from the blocked user. Or you can remove them manually to keep secure your boards.

Also you can make private boards to secure your boards from public users. This will make your boards secret and disallow search engines to crawl your pins page.

If you still have any questions and security tips for pinterest, Then simply feel free to share comment here