How to Connect Family online

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By MidniteWriter
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There are websites where you can connect with family, friends and business associates in your city or around the world online. Many are free and simple to set up. It is very effective for sharing photos and not having to send them via email and be concerned over file size, disk space. Websites serve as a great pregnancy or wedding blog, birth announcement, retirement or party planning place. For example, the Internet website Myfamily allows a generous amount of storage space, even for free accounts. Think of these sites as a backup in case your computer hard drive crashes with your photos and videos on it.
Here's how to easily connect with your family, office coworkers and friends online.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Email
Account
Photos
Internet

Step 1

Explore websites on the Internet such as myfamily, twitter, myspace or facebook. If you have been invited by another member, click on the link they provided in the invitation email.
Step 2

Click the "create new account" button on the correct location of the computer screen to create your account for family and friends to view. You will need an email address for most accounts.
Step 3

Fill in the registration information fields using your first and last name. Create a user name and password you can easily retrieve. You may want to record these in a secure place or log out and log back in so Windows remembers your login information.
Step 4

Name your website, web page or email a link to it to contacts in your address book and then proceed directly to your web page or theirs.
Step 5

Create a free, basic Internet site which provides a link directly to your page. You can then can invite other users via email, word of mouth or showing them your Internet website directly on their computer.
Step 6

Leave comments and post photos, blogs, links to other websites, videos and special memories of your own on your site or the website for family and friends to view on the Internet.
Step 7

Do not forget your scanner. You can use it to scan in programs, family documents and miscellaneous items you wish to share and upload to the Internet using the same process as you did to upload photos. Scans are generally stored in "Scans" or "My Scans" folder, respectively by date.
Step 8

Click the sign in button in the right hand corner when you return to the Internet website. Return often for status updates on your familiy and friends.

Comments

mrchuck999 said

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on 7/1/2009 Good article! Convincing older family members to get involved in internet connection has been my weakness.

jerseygirlmedia said

on 7/1/2009 My family lives all over the country, I never though about staying connected by using the internet beyond e-mail. Great idea!

shenandoah said

on 6/27/2009 Good read! One my family uses at christmas time that is kind of fun is http://www.christmaswishlist.net/

tracysmith159 said

on 6/26/2009 With 800 miles between my family and me, it is very nice to connect to them. I find them on facebook and myspace. Plus send emails is much cheaper than the post office.