Has it ever occurred to you that you have pictures which you will like to share with your family, relatives or friends but, unfortunately, they are in hard copy and in an album and the only way to share them is, either, when those you want to share them with come visiting or you take pictures of the hard copies and send to them via email or social media.
It then hit me, how about having a family website, which can also be used as an online family album. It can start from your wedding, children, and to even continue to generations unborn. In this case, you can share your family pictures, events, occasions, vacations, easily and invite particular people to view them, or make them public.
Advantages of having a family website or online family album
You can register the website/domain name as www.familyname.com. E.g www.thejosephfamily.com
Biography
A family biography can be done so that generations, down the line, can know more about their parents, grandparents, great grandparents, etc. This can also lead to reuniting families, who may have lost contacts due to relocation.
Sharing
You can easily share pictures with people near or far, even in another country or continent. You can also limit access to particular pictures but making them private for only family members or make them publicly viewed.
Each member of the family will have access to share pictures or information themselves.
The pictures can be shared on social media accounts, either created by individual family members or family social media accounts, such as creating a facebook group for your family.
Email Accounts
Each member can have family email accounts. Just like the example given with the domain, the emails can be mary@thejosephfamily.com.
Family Tree
A family tree can be created, detailing each member and where they belong in the family.
Chatting
Families can chat with each other privately or in a group
Business opportunity
Families can offer business services or products to each other or to the public. Also can sell family products through the website.
Bonding
This can lead to closer and possibly better relationships in families because, even though members are far away, they can easily share experiences, occasions, information etc. to every family member at the same time.
Up to date
Families can be informed on occasions, birthdays, programmes etc. by using a calendar feature, so that each member is alerted before and on time.
So what are you waiting for?
Start your family website now