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hi5 - Who's in?

With over 50 million members around the world, Hi5 is one of the largest and fastest growing social networking websites around. The website has gained much acclaim as an excellent venue for meeting new friends and keeping in touch with old ones, especially among young people in their teens and twenties who comprise the bulk of Hi5’s users.

How It Works

New members begin by creating a profile online. They provide basic personal information that Hi5 requires and upload their photos.

Once done, a user is now ready to meet new people by sending out friend requests to other users that capture his fancy. These users may either accept or decline the friend request or block the user from ever contacting them again. If a user accepts another user’s friend request, the two of them become "connected" in the first degree. Connected users appear on each other's friend list or network.

A member's network consists of three types of friends: their 1st degree friends or direct friends, their 2nd degree friends or the friends of their direct friends and their 3rd degree friends or the friends of the friends of their direct friends. The member can contact anyone in his personal network, whether they are 1st degree of 3rd degree friends.

As a security measure, members can choose to allow only people in their network to view their profile or allow anyone on the Hi5 website to view their profile.

Basic features

Like most social networking sites, Hi5 offers the following basic features:

1. Messaging - all members can send messages to their fellow members

2. Bulletin Boards - all members may post messages via bulletins, which are blanket messages that are forwarded to all their 1st degree friends

3. Groups -- all members have the option to join various groups in Hi5, especially those groups whose members share their particular location, hobbies, interests or points of view. A list of a member's groups appears on his profile.

4. Journals -- all members have access to their archive of past posts. Their profile's main page features the member's latest post as well as a link to all his previous posts.

Additional features

1. Video – Members can upload videos to their profiles (still in beta testing)

2. Music – Members can upload up to 15 songs through the Hi5 Musicplayer that enables them to purchase songs in five genres (Hip-Hop, R&B, Electronic, Rock and Reggaeton) from REAL or iTunes. Musicians can also upload their own songs on Hi5.

3. Photos – Hi5 provides members with up 1 Gigabyte for storing photos as well as up to 100 albums. Each album has a capacity of 50 MB and can store a maximum of 250 photos.

4. Chat – Members can chat with one another in real time

5. Testimonials – Members can write testimonials about their friends and other people in their network. A member must first approve a friend’s testimonial before it appears on his profile. Hi5 displays up to 10 testimonials at a single time and provides a link to the rest.

6. Fives – Members can describe their relationship with other members by choosing from a wide array of playful icons (“fives”) such as the following: Cute, Cool, Pretty, Trendy, Cousin, Champion, Best friend, Better Half, Swank, etc. A member must first approve a Five before it appears on his profile.

7. HTML Scripting – Hi5 offers the unique feature of letting members add HTML to their profiles, except for JavaScript, which is not allowed.

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Languages

English

Address

San Francisco CA US

Contact

Sona Networks

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External Links

• Alexa: Hi5.com