1. HYVES Always in touch with your friends

2. This is Hyves! Its the Dutch version of Facebook. Its a site to communicate with friends or future friends. Its very popular in The Netherlands

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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

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

9. Thanks for watching & listening!! SOPHIE & SYLVIE