Hyves is a free Dutch social networking site. The name Hyves comes from the English Beehive - not from Hives, hereby comparing the users to bees in a hyve. The focus of this website is on keeping in touch with existing friends and making new friends. There is no need to have knowledge of HTML for creating a Hyve. It is comparable with other social networking sites. Users can create personalized pages of themselves with rich media content, such as photos, videos, flash content and custom layouts. A regular user can upload up to 500 mb of photo's and pictures each month. A premium member can upload up to 2 GB each month.
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It's slow, the interface sucks, and it doesn't have as many features as I would like, but it's free, and pretty much everyone here uses it, so it's a good way to keep in touch with friends.
Just DONT use it
i just use it because everybody does in holland, but i prefere facebook
it's good to have some friends around you
Dutch alternative to Facebook.
im addicted to hyves :)
It's the Dutch Facebook.
A fairly good social network in the Netherlands. Lot's can be said about it in a good and bad way.
Best thing I like is the content. With that I mean the users. Lot's of nice users. It's also nice to find "hyves" where you talk about one subject.
Sometimes people lose the overviewor it works slow, those are the bad sides. And there are quite some functionalities missing. But apart from that, it's def. a good service.
hate it!
A new social community.
Waste of time and resources.
no 1 social network site from the Netherlands.
personally i think its crap...
A quite simple interface. Almost everyone from Holland got 'hyves', so always friends! :D But they got a new 'modern' interface, the old one was better imo!
I think it works good and looks good with the new design. Its not a slow site.
I agree with Nizzle.