Facebook vs Simirity: Your Family’s Safe Space
Facebook offers families a great way to connect in the present moment with shared media and messages. But it’s less focused on exploring your family’s past or preserving your posts for future generations to enjoy. And it shouldn’t have to! That’s not the purpose of social media.
Simirity’s focus is very different. As a family-owned business, we’re dedicated to strengthening family bonds through authentic, meaningful stories. We go beyond likes and comments—inspiring families to rediscover their past, enjoy deeper conversations today, and build a lasting legacy of precious stories that your children and grandchildren will cherish.
In this article, we explore the top five similarities and differences between Facebook and Simirity, helping you understand how each platform serves different family needs.
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- Facebook vs Simirity: 5 Similarities
- Facebook vs Simirity: 5 Differences
- Summary of Facebook vs Simirity
Facebook vs Simirity: 5 Similarities
Similarity 1 – You can share all kinds of content
You can connect with your family in a private group and share text, photos and videos. It’s like an online home of family content.
Similarity 2 – You can interact with all your family
You can interact with family via comments and emoji.
Similarity 3 – Enjoy reminders about past experiences
You receive welcome reminders about posts from previous years, connecting you to your past and reigniting family discussions.
Similarity 4 – You can access them on all devices
You can access them from your smartphone, tablet or computer.
Similarity 5 – Profile pages
There are profile pages, where you can explore people’s posts, photos, videos and more.
Facebook vs Simirity: 5 Differences
Difference 1 – Stories instead of posts
So many important things in life can’t be shared in a short message.
Facebook is all about ‘posts‘ which are short messages and media that take seconds to read.
Simirity is all about ‘stories’, which can be as brief as Facebook posts or as rich and detailed as you’d like, with no limits on photos, videos, or audio files. In stories, you capture so much more than just moments… Imagine wanting to share a story about the fun times you had with your best friend at school, how your career evolved, or how you met and got to know your partner. These are the meaningful stories your family truly cares about, but they’re nearly impossible to tell properly in a Facebook post. That’s where Simirity helps, giving you all the tools to build compelling family stories.
Authentic stories, free of adverts and available only to those you choose, are a great way for families to support each other. Real life, told by those we love.
Difference 2 – A lasting legacy not just short lived fun
Facebook can be fun in the moment, but it’s challenging to find old posts in the endless feed.
Simirity is the digital home of all your family’s stories.
In Simirity, you can find exactly what you’re looking for with powerful story filters. Browse by author, story participants, dates, story tags, countries, reading time, or just your favourites. There’s even a dedicated gallery where you can explore all photos and videos from your family’s stories, with its own set of filters to help you quickly find those precious moments you’re searching for.
A library of family stories, clicks away, and safe for future generations. With comprehensive filtering and search, so it’s easy to find what you’re looking for.
With Simirity, every story you create adds to a precious family legacy that your children and future family will cherish.
It provides enjoyable entertainment today and will be a lifelong accomplishment you can be proud of.
Difference 3 – Inspiring meaningful discussions that enrich relationships
As a family business, we have been using Facebook for many years to stay in touch. More often than not, we post the same things old things about social events and kids having fun. We enjoyed sharing these moments and receiving thumbs up and comments. But I wouldn’t describe these interactions as high quality and fulfilling.
With Simirity we wanted something more engaging than ‘likes’. We wanted to feel a part of each other’s lives, not just look at life’s highlights.
The first issue to solve was inspiring people to share topics outside of those usually discussed in social media. We curated hundreds of story ideas, exploring the past, family culture, health and genes, family food, education, heirlooms and far more besides. These ideas, homed in a family oriented and private platform, set the stage for stories that are altogether more authentic to those on Facebook.
Discover stories that are fun to write and treasured by today’s and tomorrow’s family.
The second challenge was helping people feel comfortable sharing personal stories.
In Simirity, your stories are 100% private, with you in complete control of who reads them. Share with just yourself, your children, partner, parents, siblings, or extended family members—it’s entirely your choice. You can even create private sharing links for family or friends who don’t use Simirity yet. What matters most is that YOU decide who sees what—this isn’t a public feed with everyone watching your family’s precious moments.
Be reminded about your family’s past with story anniversary notifications. Bringing the past into today’s conversations.
Simirity is THE place to feel safe and share personal stories with the people you care about.
You’re not aiming for ego-boosting ‘likes’ here—it’s all about authentic interactions that enrich relationships in your family.
Difference 4 – Exploring your family’s past, not only focusing on the present
It’s easy to forget that the people we love won’t be around forever. We think we have all the time in the world to ask them about:
- Their past.
- Their experiences, thoughts and learnings along the way.
- Interesting world events they experienced firsthand.
- Your ancestors.
- Family heirlooms.
- Family genealogy and your family tree.
- Your childhood years.
Facebook will not encourage your family to explore these meaningful topics. Simirity does.
It’s stories like these that truly connect your children with their grandparents and relatives, not the quick updates and casual posts typically seen on Facebook.
In addition to providing hundreds of thoughtful questions within the Simirity app to explore your past, Simirity users can send ‘Story Requests’ to family members. This simple yet powerful feature makes preserving your family’s history so much easier. Whenever you think ‘I really must ask my mum/dad/sister about that’, you simply send a Story Request. Each Request ensures your important idea is not forgotten and acts as an optional to-do list for recipients.
Encourage your children to engage with extended family by asking them questions about their lives using Story Requests.
Over time, Story Requests enrich family relationships by initiating engaging discussions while preserving precious stories for the future.
Difference 5 – Building a supportive family network through quality interactions
As a parent, you want your child to seek support from family during challenging times.
- To learn from your experiences and those of their elder cousins, aunts, uncles and grandparents.
- To know that these people are there for them, ready and willing to help.
Social media platforms often highlight the good times in people’s lives, but what about when things get tough? Few people seek helpful family advice on Facebook when they are struggling in a relationship or facing career challenges. Would you? That’s not what social media is used for. This is, however, what Simirity is designed for.
Stories in Simirity, inspired by in-app story prompts and family requests, often contain more substance than Facebook posts. Most stories are happy and uplifting, but tales about life’s challenges also belong in Simirity.
As an adult, you might not enjoy speaking about these topics face to face. But writing about your challenges is much easier. And its extremely motivating and rewarding to share learnings that might help the youngsters in your family.
To help consolidate the lessons from your family, users can add snippets of wisdom as ‘Life Lessons’ within their Simirity Stories. And all these Life Lessons are collected on a single page of family wisdom.
Help others with short snippets of wisdom presented as text within stories. All your family’s Life Lessons can be viewed on one page, and clicking on one will access its story.
On your family’s Life Lessons page, people facing personal challenges can find advice and discover which family members to ask for help.
Summary of Facebook vs Simirity
Hopefully you now see how different Facebook and Simirity are, and how they can be used alongside each other for different purposes.
There are many more differences between Facebook and Simirity than the five presented. Get a visual overview with this comparison chart, or explore this post about staying connected with family to learn more.
If any of the following are appealing, consider giving Simirity a try:
- More high-quality interactions with your family online.
- Exploring your family's heritage and stories from the past.
- Preserving family stories for your children and future generations.
Getting started with Simirity is easy and hassle-free. Sign up for a free account today—it’s your first step towards nurturing family relationships and bringing wholesome family goodness into each day.
Simirity is a family business, committed to providing a safe space for families like ours to share and preserve real-life stories.
Facebook and Simirity complement each other perfectly.
Facebook excels at keeping you updated with friends and providing daily entertainment, while Simirity serves as the home of family stories, connecting all generations of your family.
Go beyond small talk—explore authentic family stories in Simirity.
