Photo Stream seems useless

I am trying to send some photos top family and friends via photo stream :-(
It does not recognize my family email "groups" in Apple Contacts
Does not create a URL for me to send to others
Does not create a URL for me to post to family websites, blogs, facebook or twitter
If I have to type in all my family email addresses everytime I send family photos, photo stream is "useless"
Oh and also everytime I want to add a photo to a photo stream, I have to do the entire process over again!
• create new photo stream
• type in all the email addresses again
Either I am missing something our photo stream is way over hyped
Thx

The Photo Stream doesn't accept groups from the Contacts. What you can do is create a drafe email with all of those you want to send to routinely and save it. Then select and copy the email address in the draft email and paste in the Photo Stream address field.
Send a feature request to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html.
OT

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