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Most Frequently Asked Questions Please read How It Works to get an overview of how FamilyZip works. If after reading that and looking at the questions below, you still cannot find the answer to your question, then Ask Support.
What is FamilyZip?
FamilyZip is the first family-friendly sharing network that helps real people share valuable tips and ideas. Tips and ideas can be about kid-friendly activities, family travel, eating out, parenting, datenight for parents, a great local theatre, etc.
View the Newest tips or view them by Topic or even Search for Tips based on keywords. When you find great Tips, you can Zip them to add them to your My Zips for easy access This also increases their popularity. If you think a post is bad, you can Zap it to decrease its popularity. The community, not any editors, decide what's best.
FamilyZip is all about sharing and also provides an opportunity for community members to earn royalties when they post great Tips that are useful to the community.
Why should I join?
FamilyZip is the ideal community for finding & sharing family-friendly ideas on things like activities, family travel, parenting, using the Internet, books, local venues, and more. The content is driven by the community, so the tips most popular tips bubble to the top.
Joining lets you to save your favorite tips to your "MyZips" page for easy access. It also enables you to weigh in your opinion by Zipping great posts and Zapping the bad ones. If you have a lot of great ideas of your own, you can even make money by sharing in the ad revenue of the tips that you post.
It's all good, and it's all Free.
How do I Join?
Joining is easy. To Get Started, simply click the Sign Up in the top navigation menu. It really takes just 1 minute to sign up. and it's FREE.
What can I do if I am not receiving my activation email?
Some email services can mistakenly file an email into a bulk mail folder. To avoid this problem, put "familyzip.org" into your whitelist domain list. If you are unsure how to do this, we suggest sending a question to your email service provider.
How do I control who sees my stuff?
FamilyZip let's you control how you share your stuff in the following ways:
Tips and Topics
Your posts to Tips and Topics are shared with the community at large, because this is the main purpose of FamilyZip - enabling the community to share great family-friendly ideas. However, any personal information about you is still kept private - only the content of your tip is visible to the community.
Journals
When you create a Journal, you can specify who can view it - Friends only, Friends of Friends as well, or everyone. You can set this when you first create a Journal, and you can also change it later by clicking on the Journals tab, then clicking on the Journal you want to edit, and then clicking the "Settings" button to change the sharing settings.
Gallery
By default, your Photos are only shared with your friends. If you want to share a particular photo with Friends of Friends or to make it available publicly, you can always post the Photo into a Journal and set your desired sharing settings for that Journal.
How is my personal information protected?
All personal information is kept strictly private and shared only with your friends when you invite them into your network. For example, your full name would only be visible to friends with you who specifically choose to connect.
You can publish tips to the world and also publish anything you would like to say about yourself publicly on your ZipPage, which is like your own mini-website for publishing tips and ideas. But even when you publish tips, your personal information is still kept private.
Once I Join, How Do I Get Started?
Once you join, you will immediately receive an email that will allow you to activate your account. Simply click the link within that email and you are on your way.
You will then be logged into FamilyZip with a number of options to choose from.
Respond to Invites
You may have a pending invite from a friend or family member who has invited you to join their personal FamilyZip network. You can click the link to Accept of Decline this invitation.
Invite Friends
Now that you are a member of FamilyZip, you may want to tell your friends and family about it so they can also discover & share their own helpful tips with you.
Personalize your Screenname and URL
Here is where you can finalize your screenname which will also become a part of your personal FamilyZip URL if you choose to start posting your own useful tips to share. Click edit to change your screenname.
MyPage
When you are ready to start sharing your own clever tips, you'll want to set up your MyPage Profile. First you'll select a screenname for yourself which will identify you however you want to the FamilyZip community. Next, you can upload a photo of yourself or a favorite thing as well as write a few words about yourself.
I forgot my password or email address, what should I do?
Click on the Forgot Password link directly below the login on the homepage.
If you cannot remember which email account you used, you can try various email addresses under you find the one that you used to sign up.
Your password will be emailed to you. If you still cannot get access to your account, contact us through our feedback form feedback.
How do I set up my Profile?
Setting up your FamilyZip Profile is easy and only takes a couple of minutes. To get started, simply login using the username and password you received when you signed up.
Click on the My Profile tab on the top menu and then, follow the easy steps to add your information.
Only your connected friends are permitted to view your in-depth profile.
To protect your privacy, even friends of your friends are not permitted to see the names or birthdates of your children. They can only see genders and approximate ages so that they can contact you if they have children of similar ages.
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