@matigo Wow, Skype. I forget that is still cruising along under Microsoft.
For photos, I send a weekly email with a photo or three to a few family members. I don’t have any photos streamed to where any extended family could see; selection and framing are crucial. (Not to mention all the documents that get dropped in my photo stream from scanning, and other randomness from working around apps not supporting paste or files, just photo library picking, to add an image.)