I received a frameo touch screen digital picture frame for my birthday

[SheltieLover]

Ironically, this was from daughter, her wife, and presumably their young daughter.

I've only received 2 pictures in the past year from them.

So wth am I supposed to do with this thing?

I never download apps to my phone, detest the cloud concept, and am not likely to change my thoughts.

Guessing this is their way of allowing me to see pix of grand daughter?

No idea, but this song came to mind...

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TYIA for any insights you can provide before I ask them to send someone to pick this thing up & return it.

[Harker]

1. From my experience, when in doubt - ask a child for help.

[SheltieLover]

3. Lol. True.

My adult gs is a computer guru, but not with cloud stuff. He detests it as much as I do. Lol

[Harker]

5. Yesterday I got help with a vexing problem from librarian and her daughter...

" I don't even have a cloud, and I don't want one", I said.

She replied, "you do have one, whether you know it or not."

Damn.

[SheltieLover]

6. Oh no!

Where does it come from? Theft of data, no doubt.

[Harker]

7. It's in the fine print of terms of use, I suspect.

[SheltieLover]

8. To quote Piglet: "Fuck."

Thx.

[viva la]

2. I have one too.

I think you need to have THEM download the app, and then they can send pictures to the Frameo for you.

It's kind of more complicated than I like... but then again, it's easier than getting pictures developed at the photo store and then mailing the photos.

I remember those days! It always seemed like so much trouble to take photos then. And expensive!

[SheltieLover]

4. So is it a complete stand alone system then?

That would be ok.

But there is absolutely no way I would give permission for pix on computer or phone to be accessed. Not no, but hell no!

Ty for sharing!

Do you like & use the thing?

[viva la]

9. As I recall, you give the Frameo ID to the person with the photos

They might have to DL the Frameo app, but they might just email a photo to the Frameo address. (I've only received, not sent.)

Then the picture appears on the Frameo, and you can set it up to show all the pictures as a slideshow, or just change occasionally.

You can also have the Frameo app on your phone. I don't think it goes "two-ways'-- I don't think it can get into your phone because it doesn't actually have any interface. It just receives and displays the photos.

The time I really used it was after my FB got hacked and I lost access to my photos of the grandkid. I wanted to make a collage of PRINT photos, lol, real old school. So I used my Frameo app on the phone to DL the pictures my son had put on the Frameo, and then I sent the photos to my computer to print. It was kind of a reverse-engineering process.

I like the Frameo okay, but it relies on someone sending photos to it, you know. And you know how it goes with photos of kids. When they're little, you take thousands of them, and then they get older and you get busier and less obsessed and ... almost no photos of the kid at 8!