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Set up a Google family account

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Set up a Google family account

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- [Instructor] A recent development is the ability to build a sharing account that reflects the relationship of most families. Let's look at those options and consider the security concerns. In a family account, there are parent accounts called family managers and children accounts called members. We'll look at how to set up family sharing, but before we do, I'd like to make one point. All that you share is only as secure as the weakest synced account. Don't add sharing accounts you cannot also secure. If we open up a browser and go to families.google.com, we'll find this. We're logged in as Billy the adult and we'll click get started. We need to create a family group. For demonstration purposes, I've created a child account called Billy the kid. I need to invite Billy the kid to share this account with me. I'll enter his email address here, add recipient, scroll down, select send. Now I'll go to the family group. Here you can see myself as the family manager and my invitation to…

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