Hyves
Hyves
Don´t see your friends too often and need to catch up with them? Want to meet new people? Looking for a place to upload your coolest pictures, open for comments?
For this and much more, do not look any further than www.Hyves.nl!
Hyves (named after a ‘hive’, you know, the place where bees hang out) was created in 2004 by 3 people, namely: Raymond Spanjar, Koen Kam and Floris Rost van Tonningen.
Unlike facebook, Hyves is not an international social medium. Created by and for Dutch people, it already had over 7 million accounts at the end of 2008.
So what exactly can you do with Hyves?
You can create an account, and establish your own ‘Hyve’. Get started by filling in some information about yourself, such as your age, gender, name, relationship status etc.
Now you can start writing blogs, and creating polls. You can search for people that have a Hyve as well, and add them to your friends list. This friends list can contain up to a thousand people.
Now that you have added some friends, they can comment to your blogs, write you short messages (to which you can of course reply) and they can view the pictures you have uploaded. And if you don’t want people to see your blogs or photo’s, you can just switch this function off. Got to love the fact about the internet that you can remain anonymous so easily, right!
