I have discussed Facebook with many of my friends and work colleagues and quite of few of them have told me “Oh, I hate Facebook!” (to be clear, I don’t!) However, they still use the platform for various reasons, including because all of their friends and family are on it (and not on Google+), or for business and marketing purposes. So, for all of you who don’t like Facebook and/or want to stay in touch with family and family only, here’s JustFamily – a new social network just for family.

You probably ask yourself “Why should I join yet another social media site?” Here’s why according to the founders of JustFamily:

"There are lots of ways to share “what’s happening now” with friends and the world. But family is different. Family is the only social group that cares about the past, the present, and the future. We’re building JustFamily so families can share life together and stay close in a private place, away from work and friends.”

Well, that sounds reasonable to me. Therefore, I decided to join the network and now I want to show you what it looks like and some of its features. The site is very clean and easy to navigate – I assume because it’s supposed to be used by the elderly people of the family as well.

You can post anything just like on Facebook or Google+ – images, text, video – but you can also add audio files. Furthermore, you can put family members into different groups to specify who can see your updates and you can additionally choose default sharing options from the settings section.

There’s also a family tree, which I find quite cool (it would, of course, look much better when it’s filled in – I need to ask my family to join).

To give you some more clarity and visuals, here’s also the promotional video:

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/45996386[/vimeo]

You can still use Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. to keep up with your friends and peers, but if you are looking for a platform to communicate with your closest people, then JustFamily might be ideal for you.  

Are you going to join JustFamily? 

Image from Vimeo video