Website Helps Families Plan Meals Simply, Quickly, and Affordably

Online services such as Blue Apron and HelloFresh have offered people the ability to cook better meals at home with less hassle. Mindful Meal offers an alternative for those who do need food items shipped to them, but are willing to do their own shopping while maintaining the ability to do so more easily, cheaply, and healthy-consciously. It is a website that offers what its developers claim to be unlimited recipes, meal plans, and grocery lists from a personal dashboard. Users can utilize a monthly, six month, or yearly subscription at a low cost in order to save time and cost while making healthier meal choices for their families. A few aspects that make it different from services like Blue Apron include family profiles and more personalized meal planning. Read more »

For all of the social media that we engage in daily, there is very little that tailors directly to families while allowing the privacy we need in a potentially dangerous online environment.  Along with the dangers that can come with browsing the Internet, it can be challenging to keep family coordinated and emotionally connected.  Squarehub is an app that, in its developers’ words, is the private social network designed exclusively for your family. The development of technology brings with it unique new problems as well as solutions, and Squarehub looks to solve these problems.  While social media offers us myriad new ways to branch out and connect to people we may not otherwise meet, the lack of privacy can become increasingly worrisome. It can also be difficult and complicated to gather family information through multiple emails, text messages, and social media accounts.  Meanwhile, teenagers desire more freedom while parents are concerned about their safety, and they do not always understand online etiquette.  Along with all these things, communication between family members can significantly diminish between all of the online chatter and busyness.  Squarehub offers an innovative solution to deal with all these dilemmas. Read more »

Large families constantly have trouble keeping their days organized, especially when every member has their own commitments on a daily basis.  Cool product Hub is a mobile app that wants to make it easier for families to stay informed of each other’s schedules and what they’re doing at any given time.  Hub lets each member of a family have their own profile on the app.  Hub groups profiles into family units that have access to each other’s information at any time.  This system makes the app a place where a family can put all their important information to check on quickly and conveniently on any smartphone, tablet, or other mobile device that runs iOS or Android.  This way, when there are parent-teacher conferences, football games, book clubs, dance lessons, and more all going on in the same week, no one in the family has to lose track of each other.  Hub could be especially useful for any families that depend on each other for transportation.  With Hub, there is no excuse for one sibling or parent to forget to pick up another family member from an event or activity.  Any users who want to take advantage but struggle with mobile technology can get help from a mobile computer support company. Read more »

With improvements to the Internet and the rise of Internet social networks, it is becoming easier than ever to connect and stay connected with members of your family.  At the same time, social mobility in the United States has made it commonplace for families to move around a lot and keeping track of how members of your family relate to one another can be a full time job.  To make genealogy simple, comprehensive and fun, Ancestry.com has now released Family Tree Maker Deluxe 2012. Read more »

The first blog in this series on Apple’s success at creating an increasingly strong global following—an obsession—discussed how Apple consumers are able to establish a unique social identity by identifying themselves with Apple products. IPads, iPhones, iPods, MacBooks are all means to stand out in a positive way, to belong to a family. So aside from wanting to establish an individual identity, Apple users are able to establish a familial, group identity. The products aren’t merely a way for their owners to create custom app collections; they’re the small connection that suddenly links you to a huge, wealthy, and powerful family—the Apples.

Indeed, once a member of this family, company events become family reunions; corporate announcements become a source of pride; and family reputation becomes a matter of personal responsibility. Likewise, celebrating the arrival of a new iPhone for the members of the Apple family is like celebrating the birth of a new sibling or relative. The days that lead up to an Apple product debut are just as—if not more—exciting than the countdown to Christmas or summer vacation or election day.

Of course, the people at Apple are no fools; they know that their customers/relatives have a special relationship with the company and its products, and make good use of that knowledge. Perhaps this kind of relationship between the company and consumers is why Apple users as so patient in awaiting remedial tech support, as was the case with Siri and battery problems with the iPhone 4S and the antenna problems with its predecessor.

The strength of the bonds in this particular family is such that Apple users are aggressively loyal to the brand name. Again, though this may be due to other factors like the products’ reliability and limited need for computer repairs, or as previously discussed, identity formation, it is also largely due to the sense of belonging. Which is why you’ll often notice (or know from experience) that owning one Apple device usually leads to owning several others. One obstacle to this trend might be the expensive nature of such a commitment, but even with that, Apple loyalists are constantly on a quest to rid themselves of their un-Apple-like devices and make the full transformation. Naturally, the folks at Apple know this and are more than happy with it.

Ultimately, belonging to a family, albeit a technological one, isn’t a bad thing. It certainly works well for Apple’s wallet.

The series’ next blog will depart from discussing the socio-psycho dimension of Apple’s success and turn temporarily to discussing Apple’s technology.

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