A method for establishing and maintaining a digital family & friends tree, comprising:
- providing a private social network operating on a system that comprises:
- a cloud-based server having a memory and programmed instructions stored therein,
- a plurality of computing devices in operative connection and communication with the cloud-based server, each computing device in the plurality comprising a display, a processor and a memory, wherein the computing device is configured to access the memory and programmed instructions stored in the cloud-based server and execute at least some of the programmed instructions;
- enabling a user to subscribe to the private social network to become a subscriber,
- wherein the private social network comprises other subscribers who can execute the programmed instructions using a computing device in the plurality of computing devices, the private social network further comprising a private circle comprising the subscriber and of some of the other subscribers to the private social network, wherein the private circle is enabled to include both current subscribers and future subscribers who are not yet born but are identified by relationship with the subscriber;
- wherein the subscriber accesses the programmed instructions with a computing device and actuates the accessed programmed instructions to perform:
- adding a newborn or unborn subscriber to the private circle;
- confirming that the newborn or unborn subscriber is a child of the subscriber;
- creating a new account for the added newborn or unborn subscriber, and adding a digital profile of the newborn or unborn subscriber to the digital family & friends tree, wherein the digital family & friends tree is accessible only to the other subscribers included in the private circle;
- creating and storing digital content associated with the newborn or unborn subscriber's digital profile in a data library located in the memory of the cloud-based server of the system;
- enabling the other subscribers included in the private circle to:
- select digital content and/or identified physical content for delivery to the newborn or unborn subscriber;
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- select a future delivery triggering event with known or unknown date for sending the selected digital content for delivery to the newborn or unborn subscriber;
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- delivering the selected digital content and/or identified physical content to the newborn or unborn subscriber on the scheduled delivery date.