If you live far from family, how do you keep in touch with them? We're big phone people, but I'm thinking I'd also like to find a way to share pictures and videos of little one when he or she comes. I'd rather avoid Facebook, though.
What do you do?
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Blog with Blogger. I started it when DS was 7 months old and we moved to PA (he is 5.5 now) .
My family loves it!
Plus I print them out and have kind of a journal of our entire year
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Blog - I use Wordpress. It's REALLY picture heavy, but includes some narrative so my family can know what she's up to. I have a link in my profile if you want to see. It's probably pretty boring to most people, but my family (and select close friends) soaks it up.
I go back and forth on wanting to make it private, but I have too many older family members that use it, and if I made it private I know they wouldn't sign up and log in each time to see the pictures
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We do a lot of FaceTime with grandparents and a couple of her aunts, but mostly we text photos of her to family. I'm not super comfortable posting photos of her online.
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I have a tumblr blog for him and I use https://ifttt.com/ to share the posts. Before he was born, I asked friends and family if they wanted to get the emails and how often. During his first year, I posted a new picture every day, but now I post a few at once about once a week. People love it!
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I post a ton of pictures and short video on Instagram. And then select ones on facebook. It's pretty much only family, close friends, and HB people on my Instagram so I don't think they would get totally sick of all the pictures of her like FB friends would.
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FaceTime.
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@mrs. tictactoe: what is iffft.com? I went to the site, but I don't quite understand...
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we skype and I send photos through Kakaotalk.
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Our family uses a group chat on Whatsapp! My sister in law (with the babies) lives in a different country.
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i send a weekly email to family members with pictures. i don't have facebook, and am generally technologically behind when it comes to all the cool apps out there.
i think one of my friends uses smugmug, which requires a password so that's fairly private.
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We have an iCloud photo stream set up for all Apple users.. I like it because I know the people in the group want to see pics so I don't have to overload my Facebook page
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We have a private you tube channel, where we post videos.
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I don't have a LO yet, so I don't know what I'll do, but a good friend just created a private group on Facebook for family and close friends who want to keep up with the kids.
I thought that was a nice compromise to keep the ease of Facebook but make it a little more protected.
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We text a lot of photos
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We share photo albums on Picasa and YouTube videos on a private YouTube channel.
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I upgraded my Shutterfly to do unlimited video and created a share site. If I add people as members they get a weekly digest of updates emailed. It's mostly private and I can password protect it if I wanted.
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Well my son is a week old today, and I have a lot of friends who already have kids so I have posted the initial series of photos on FB because people are interested (or so they say, at least).
My parents don't use FB, and anyway in the long run I don't really want to spam everyone with kid photos on FB. So I just built a Picasa album and will start archiving everything there. In the long run I will probably put more photos there than I do on FB.
ETA: You could also set up a group on FB and only post the photos to that select group of FB friends.
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I used to use Shutterfly and load pics on there for everyone but it took so much time! Now I do monthly email updates listing what we did, what she loves, what she can do and her health and one or two pictures. I can't really Skype because of the time difference and by the time we get home they're in bed so email works best for us.
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Mainly email or text pictures. Once in awhile, we'll FaceTime, but texting is the easiest and quickest. On the spot right after the picture is taken, bam! Sent!
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We have a picasa album. I have family receive auto updates every time I add pictures and for friends I send the link only if they ask to see pictures.
ETA: we also Skype once a week.
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I text a lot of pictures to SMIL.
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Face time and email, but lately I've been utilizing google + more. I have it set up so it automatically backs up pictures and videos from my phone and computer, and then sharing those privately is really easy and convenient.
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We FB and during the holidays we send a holiday card with pictures of LO on it
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I do Facebook, but only a select group of family & close friends can see the pics and videos I post.
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For LO's first year I texted a daily picture to immediate family. I still text one everyday to my mom but a little less to everyone else. We also do FaceTime a lot.
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Picasa for photos and private YouTube videos
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We have a private, only family-accessible FB album, a private Shutterfly share site, a private YouTube channel, and I email and text some photos and videos as well.
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We have a private Shutterfly share site with strict permissions since my MIL is notorious for lifting pics without permission. Occasionally, I email pics to my dad if there's a cute pic. I keep very few pics of LO on FB.
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FaceTime.
I use a private photo hosting site, but my dad is too techtarded to figure it out. So I email him photos from time to time.
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@Andrea: we do exactly this!
I sent a picasa album once a week for the first year or so and now do every 1-2 weeks. Keeps me organized too, which made it easy to make photo books later.
Videos we do a couple a month when we can catch something cute. I've later made those into DVDs for each year which was fun too. -
We set up a Dropbox account where we share all of our photos with our immediate family and close friends.
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We don't have a little one yet but we set up a flickr page and bought the domain name the[ourlastname].com i hate facebook and this makes it easy for everyone to access.
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I'd use Facebook, but you could also make a shared folder on Google Drive to put pics in.
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I send a bunch from my phone over WhatsApp.
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@LovelyPlum: if this, then that. So if I post to tumblr, then it automatically emails people the post. You create "recipes" for what you want to happen.
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We text or e-mail pictures. I've only posted 1 photo of LO on Facebook.
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If everyone has iPhones you can create an album to share and people can "like" & comment on your pictures!
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We mostly text pics to our families, but I also post to facebook. I sent out way more stuff by text than facebook - I figure my parents might want to see 5 pictures of D in one day, but probably the rest of my news feed doesn't.
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I do Facebook with a private album that only they can see.
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