You Love Pinterest. Find Out Why The Police Do, Too : All Tech Considered : NPR, via Will W.
Eight hours after posting on his department’s Facebook, Twitter — and the Pinterest page the agency launched in February — Stahler received information from not one but three people who helped identify the owner of the bracelet. That alone would be a good story — but when you learn that the jewelry was actually a mother’s keepsake engraved with the names and birth dates of her children and stolen during a residential burglary in 1983, well, it’s sweeter than all the red velvet cupcake recipes on Pinterest combined.