It's funny, to appease my Mom and others not on Facebook I setup a self-installed WordPress site to share family content. I then notify subscribers via email, which even these days still is an effective communication tool.

It's actually worked (although publishing to it on my part isn't consistent), and makes me feel much better that my content is stored on my server, in a format I control almost completely.

I have a cousin who does that with pictures of her kid, and no one follows the links. She receives less than two unique visitors a month at this point. Turns out we've taught our families to be overly suspicious of 'CLICK HERE FOR XX' advertising and e-mails that even look similar to that model.

Made me giggle quite a bit.