Share Your Private Movies/Videos With Family And Friends Using These 3 Sites

by Karan Goel

There are tons of video and media sharing websites out there. But, you would not like your personal or private videos and movies getting viewed by others. You can checkout the Coolest Video Sharing Websites here.

In many cases when you want only your family and friends to watch your videos, my list of below mentioned websites comes to rescue!

Why Not The ‘Private’ Mode on YouTube?

You may upload your videos and choose the “Private” viewing of the video that is allowed only to up to 25 users that you choose.

The only thing that may frustrate people is that only the users that have a YouTube account can access the private videos.

Shutterfly

Shutterfly is leaps and bounds ahead of YouTube when it comes to creating your own little network of family and friends that you want to share your personal videos with – without opening them up to the freaks that prowl the public video communities. On Shutterfly, you’re provided with your own personal, customized website where you can post up to 10 videos at a time (the paid account offers unlimited storage).

Under your account, just click on “Create a Share site” to generate a new, custom page for your photos and/or videos.

When you first set up your private site, you can choose the subdomain name it falls under, and then configure “All visitors” and set a password of your choice. This is a better option, because if you set it to Site members only, that might limit it to only Shutterfly members, but it allows all Shutterfly members to view your videos and photos. Once you’ve uploaded your content to the page, you can just send your friends and family the link and the password.

Uploading is as simple as visiting your own page logged in with your Shutterfly ID (which puts you in page edit mode), and clicking on “Click to add videos.” As you add more private videos, they automatically get published to your password-protected website.

Vimeo

Vimeo is another great video sharing site with good privacy features. Unlike Shutterfly, you don’t have a private website, instead your videos themselves are password protected. Vimeo is very much a community video sharing site, but it offers a much easier privacy setup than YouTube does.

All you have to do is click on Privacy in the left menu bar, and change the setting from “Anyone” to “Password protected” and set your password. It’s as simple and easy as that. You can even have a different password for each video so that you can easily control who has access to specific videos.

I should note however that one major drawback of the free Vimeo account is that the upload takes about half an hour to go “active” before it can be viewed. However, as a free private video sharing service, the pros definitely outweigh that one con.

Upload Your Video To Facebook!

Of course, one of the easiest ways to share your video with only friends and family is by uploading it to your Facebook account. Since you’ve only allowed your personal friends and close family with access to your account, it makes sense that Facebook would probably be the first place you’d go to share your private home movies.

Most people think of YouTube when it comes to uploading and sharing videos, but few people are aware (yet) that you can directly upload videos to Facebook right off your hard drive.

After it uploads, the video gets shared to your wall just like when you post comments or upload photos. The video isn’t published to the entire world – only the people who you’ve already added as friends and family can see your video. Just make sure, when you upload it, to set the privacy settings to “My Friends Only.”

Do you know of any other websites where it’s especially easy to share private videos without publishing them to the entire Internet? Share your own resources or insights in the comments section below.