Nipping at the heels of the big social networking sites like MySpace and FaceBook is the social networking website HI5.com. Hi5 was one of the 25 most visited sites on the web in 2007. The company was founded in 2002 and as of December 2007, hi5.com had over 98 million members.
At hi5, users create a profile in order to show information such as interests, age and location. They can have user pictures where other users can post comments. hi5 also allows the user to create a photo albums and have a music player in the profile. Friend request are done via email. When a person receives a request, they may accept, decline or block the user altogether. If accepted, the two will be connected directly or in the 1st degree. The user will then appear on the person’s friend list and vice-versa. Some users opt to make their profiles available for everyone on hi5 to view. Other users exercise the option to make their profile viewable only to those people who are in their network. The network of friends consists of a user’s direct friends (1st degree), the friends of those direct friends (2nd degree) and the friends of the friends of direct friends (3rd degree).
Just like the big boys of social networking, HI5 has caused the creation of a many websites looking to cash in on the popularity of theirsite by offering free HI5 layouts and HI5 tools.
Official site hi5.com
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