Concept question

Hi Stackideas, (and others too)

Having played around with EasyBlog and EasySocial for while I have to say that im pleased on how nicely things work and the details some of the things are worked out. Nevertheless I have a few remaining questions on the concept how I should best use this. Especially the nice way how your media manager is integrated in the article creation is nice. I never understood why other (ad Joomla as such) never di so, so im very glad to see you guys (and ladies maybe too) have done a nice job on that. So please don't take this as a complaint, im learning this as I write, but want to make sure I set this up in the right way.
Apology for the lengthily write up here.....

Our site is mainly a family blog we maintain as our friends and family are a little spread around the globe. At the same time its (is the intention) useful to use our site to also have photo albums and info shared with day to day friends and friends of friends.

So the team blogs feature seems to me - correct me if not right - the best way to split friends from family, who can see what on our blog entries. And based on who I add to which team blog they can either see one the family blog or the friend blog, or both depending to which blog they are members of. (and a private one for even just our own home-blog items.

But now on events and albums. What would be the best way to manage the visibility of albums and/or events? Events I could somehow manage with just allowing those to subscribe that we want. That would not be too complicated and limiting, but albums Im stuck. If I add albums to events, then the albums don't show up in the album overview or I can't use those albums in the media manager when writing articles. And I can't manage who can see what albums.

When I create generic albums I can't specify who has visibility to these albums. As I understand I can't assign groups to albums. So how would be the best way that "family" can see all, but that "Friends" can only see a selection of the albums?

So what way would be the best way to organise the albums and events? Any suggestions (even with a plugin or something else) And/or will a future version solve this so I don't bother much now and way (a little). When I set this up I don't want to do it all over again if you guys have something in the making for a future version, so would appreciate if you can guide me in the right way here so it might work now, and is easy to adopt to maybe something in the future you guys may have on this (I know things may change voer time etc.)

Thanks for your feedback and suggestions, and the time to read and reply.

Regards,
Luc

PS: Just read your update on Group Social Events. So thats one way to limit the Events per group, nice. Would still appreciate some advise/suggestion on how to best go forward with the albums. (How would you do that today)