How to upload and share family photos
November 4, 2008 by Alexander
We all love to share photos with our family. But sending photos to each other using e-mail is complicated and leads to full e-mail boxes. There is a simple solution for it. Glubble for Families provides you a private personal Family photo album. A great way to store and share family photos with the entire family. As soon as you upload photos to your family album all family members, including your children, are notified and everyone can enjoy these family memories.
Uploading photos is really easy. On your Family Home page you can find the Family Album tab. Click on that and it will open your Family photo album.
Your Family album is located on your Family Page
Your Family album contains some default photos the Glubble team has uploaded for you. You can delete them if you want and start uploading your own family photos. To do that click on the “add photos” link.
You can upload family photos by clicking the "Add Photos" link
When you have clicked on “Add photos” you will see a form in which you can upload up to 5 photos at one time to your Family Album. Click on a browse button to locate photos you want to upload from your computer.
You can select photos from your computer by clicking the "browse" button
When you have selected one or more photos you can add a short description to each of the selected photos (for example “Joey’s birthday”). Then press the “upload photos” button and your photos are uploaded to your Family Album.
Your selected photos are uploaded to your family album
Your Family album provides you with options to look at the photo in full size, delete it again, see who uploaded it and watch a slide show. Just go with your mouse to any photo and you will see a menu appear.
A convenient menu with options
You can watch a fun family photo slide show!
Glubble automatically warns all family members that you have uploaded new photos so that everyone can immediately look at them and share the family experience! No more full e-mail boxes when you want to share family photos!
All family members are notified when new photos are uploaded
And your children can enjoy the family photos a well in their Kids Page.
Children can see family photos in their Kids Page
The Glubble Family photo album makes uploading and sharing family photos easy and convenient for the entire family.
I am enthusiastic about Glubble and what it has to offer my family. I would like, however to see significant improvements on the messaging function. I have become increasingly frustrated with the current Glubble messaging concept and interface.
I think we all see the success of instant messaging in our every day lives. I would have expected that this type of instant messaging be included in Glubble as core feature.
It is the interaction between parent and child that is most important and instant messaging in a Glubble way would enhance this communication as well as help to facilitate and strengthen the family’s social network. I would have thought that with open source messaging applications such as Pidgin, this would have been a must for Glubble.
I have seen some discussion pertaining to control and privacy however it all seemed a little too confused / off the mark for me. Here is what I feel is required:
1) Real time messaging interface – in the tried and true fashion as with yahoo, google or msn. This interface should be capable of interacting with all of the known services just as Pidgin does.
2) Parental control – child accounts are locked so that new “pals” would only be added with parental consent. Similarly, request from other users to add a child account to their list would also have to be approved by a parent.
3) Privacy – conversations would by default be private. All conversations would be logged however, consent must be provided by the user to view the conversation log.
4) Family wall – the messaging should include the “Post message to family wall” option. This option would use the instant messaging interface to post to the family wall, instead of to an individual. If this option were selected, then the message would be sent to each member of the Glubble family as and instant message, as well as to the family wall.
5) Master user access – in the event that for some reason a user log had to be viewed without consent, then the master user could access the log however a message would be sent to the individual user indicating that the the master had acessed the specific log. This master access should be limited to any log that includes a child user as one of the participants. Conversation logs where there is no child account involved should remain private.
This does not seem like rocket science to me. The messaging interface and parental control over which pals a child can add is a no brainer. The default privacy rule, I feel, is extremely important as it teaches children that they do have a right to some level of privacy. Requesting consent to view a child’s conversation log is only sensible as it shows a child that there is respect for their privacy and would promote a conversation between parent and child where a concern had arisen. Master access notifications (and the normal absence thereof) letting a child know that their logs had been accessed without specific consent, would provide a level of comfort that no one, not even mom or dad, could view their conversations without their knowledge.
I sincerely hope that you would agree with what I have proposed and make it the focus of development for the next release.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE FOLDERS IN EACH FAMILY MEMBERS NAME. SO WE CAN CHOOSE TO LOOK AT THOSE OR NOT. LIKE A VACATION FOLDER, PARTY AT WORK, ECT. I MAY NOT WANT TO SEE THOSE PICTURES. BUT WITH FOLDERS WITH TITLES I CAN CHOOSE. MAYBE THERE IS SOMEWHERE WHERE THIS IS AN OPTION, BUT I HAVEN’T FOUND IT.
RHONDA
I HEAR YOU!
This is on our list for near future release.
We thought this to be a great new feature too.
I would like to see access to uploading folders given to children so they can also upload pictures to the family page.