HYVESAlways in touch with your friends

This is Hyves!

It’s the Dutch version of Facebook.It’s a site to communicate with friends

or future friends. It’s very popular in The Netherlands

Historical Background

•Founded in 2004•Founded by Raymond Spanjar, Koen Kam (Kam actually means comb) and Floris Rost van Tonningen

•7 million registerers since 2004

Hyves Statistics

• In 2008 Hyves had 120.000 hyvespages.

• Last month, nearly 70% of the users has logged in.

• Last month, 5 billion hyvespages were viewed, with over 196 million views

• Hyves on the iPhone is used so much, 1 million pages are summoned per day.

What is Hyves for?• Chatting with friends• Meeting new friends• Showing your pictures• Leaving messages for your friends,

or future friends. (this is called “krabbelen”, which could be translated as “jotting”)

• Participating in or making polls• Blogging

Basic Hyves Emoticons:D =:) =(L)=(k)= :( =;) =:$ =:P =

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Thanks for watching & listening!!

SOPHIE & SYLVIE