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Asked for my password to other site![edit]

Immediately when I had registererd at http://www.hi5.com I was asked for my password to my e-mail-address and I find that very suspect. /G.Eriksson —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.224.114.36 (talk) 01:51, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

-This is also the case with Facebook, and I'm sure other popular networking sites...They ask for your password to gain access to your friends' email addresses to invite them to the site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.202.200.84 (talk) 06:41, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Devil's Website[edit]

Hi5 has a reputation for being full of old pedos wanting to groom kids for sex. I read in the newspaper that a ten year old girl was anally raped by a middle-aged man she met on the website. I think that the page should include this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.234.159.97 (talk) 11:37, 29 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Unless you have a reference to such a newspaper report it is of no value in an Encylopedia Marcus A V Green (talk) 09:09, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Romance POV[edit]

I wanted to discuss this sentence:
"Hi5 seems to be mainly used by people to meet romantic partners from the same or different countries."
It seems like a POV. No reference or citation. I am for removing it, but I am new here, so I don't want to rush in. --Bundu 16:31, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Go ahead, make whatever changes you like. If you do something that others disagree with, they'll change it back, and hopefully start a discussion. Foobaz·o< 02:46, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Spam" section[edit]

I removed the following paragraph since it's potentially libelous:

There are indications that this social networking site uses spammers to attract new users. Several users have reported that after opening a new account, hi5 will send invitations to everyone in their email contacts list. A quick search on Google reveals numerous reports of spam being received in relation to this service. [1]

This is true!!!! Hi5 sends invites to email contacts list in a sneaky way!!!! I wish there was a way to blacklist Hi5. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.95.156.66 (talk) 06:40, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The citation (a Google search, [1]), is definitely not enough to support this claim. Feel free to re-add (parts of) it, put please only do so if you can cite a reliable source. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddxc (talk • contribs) 00:45, 6 November 2007

No, this is my personal experience. I have emails records to prove it. so, I am going to put this section back. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ltbriar (talk • contribs) 18:09, 2 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I have also notice this problem with a friend of mine, it is a fact, not a suspicious... In french speaking:

VICTIM voudrait être ton ami(e) sur hi5 !
J'ai créé un profil hi5 et je voudrais t'ajouter à ma liste d'amis pour qu'on puisse s'échanger des images et construire notre réseau. Mais tu dois d'abord rejoindre hi5 ! Une fois que tu l'auras fait, tu pourras créer ton profil, partager des photos et rechercher des amis.
Merci,
VICTIM
Rejoins hi5 !»
Meilleurs amis de VICTIM ...

--Pascal.kotte (talk) 20:41, 11 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I just received this email from my brother:

To:
Gonzalo

From:
Miguel Chumillas

I'd like to add you as a friend of mine on hi5. Click the button below to find out more.

But my brother didn't send to me that email! I suspect also that this site is making a dishonest use of Wikipedia, because someone removed the section "See also" from the article, which makes reference to other social network websites and I think this information is relevant.

Sorry for my English,
--Cequiel (talk) 02:27, 20 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "Search results on Google for hi5 spam". Retrieved 2007-11-02.

Citations[edit]

i see that this article needs citations for the countries of Guyana and the Bahamas. I read an article not too long ago from a Bahamanian website talking about how hi5 is most prefered there. ill see if i can find it and add it in :) Taint3dmem0riez6 (talk) 15:34, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Miscellaneous[edit]

I removed this statement:

"By 7th May 2008 the site is down. By 9th May 2008 the site is online."

For one thing, it's not good English; but more important is that it's simply of no consequence. The hi5 site did indeed have a DNS problem in early May but it has since been corrected -- besides which, it's not known whether it was the site itself or key DNS servers on the internet which were the problem. In any event, it's absurd to log every technical glitch of a web site as part of its Wikipedia entry. Jeff Mincey (talk) 21:53, 17 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Marked as advertisement?[edit]

Someone might want to clarify why this article is marked as advertisement because as I read it it didn't look too different from pages for Facebook, Myspace, etc. 76.200.119.77 (talk) 15:10, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Citing other pages that fail to meet requirements for an encyclopedia page is not an answer. I would have cited the page as blatent spam put it up for immediate deletion. --Revatim (talk) 17:04, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly reads like a spamvert to me. 84.75.143.61 (talk) 17:10, 14 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Marketshare[edit]

The "marketshare" section contains a logical mistake. It says that "hi5 is the #1 social network in over 25 nations across Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa." and that "the site is virtually unheard of in Europe". Only one of the two can be true (or neither of them, I don't know). --J B 12:31, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Need an update[edit]

In Colombia, Facebook is the first social networking, and this is due to the mobilisation against FARC, via Facebook. More than 2 millions colombian are in Facebook, and the site is now the third most visited in Colombia, before Hi5, which is the 6th. Kormin (talk) 11:49, 19 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tunisia, Cyprus, Koweit, Trinidad and Tobago are all under Facebook rule now. Kormin (talk) 21:51, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Emails[edit]

After asking for Gmail login and password, this site automatically sends invitations to all contacts without asking for confirmation; my mother experienced this. Someone should investigate into numerous cases of this kind and write up a section. Michael Grinberg (talk) 15:26, 24 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

See also[edit]

Hello:

I included three other social networking services in the article and they were removed due to being 'random'. These services were not random as Hi5 has embarked on partnerships in different ways with all three. Hi5 is mentioned in the other articles as well.

Thank you! A. Ward (talk) 23:20, 27 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Move the website to Hi5, merge the dab page into High five (disambiguation). Ucucha 13:09, 12 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]


Hi5 (website) → Hi5 – Relisted for a second and last time, for same reason that Vegaswikian gave. Orlady (talk) 14:58, 3 June 2011 (UTC) Relisted. Need a consensus on the dab pages with a reasonable amount of input. Vegaswikian (talk) 05:23, 25 April 2011 (UTC) Only non-partial title match and also a very notable primary topic. Marcus Qwertyus 08:28, 18 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is this really necessary? A. Ward (talk) 00:03, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The move or the dab merge? --Joshua Issac (talk) 10:34, 19 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I was thinking it could be merged with High five (disambiguation). --Joshua Issac (talk)
Then all the redirects would target "High five (disambiguation)" instead of the website? (They should not target the website) 65.94.45.160 (talk) 04:55, 20 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support the suggestion, i.e. merging the dab page into High five (disambiguation), correcting the redirects (or waiting some time for the bot to do it, if we're lazy), then dropping the "(website)" from this title.--Kotniski (talk) 10:52, 11 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The launch date is wrong.[edit]

The launch date is listed in 2 places as 2014, but this can't be right. 173.106.70.217 (talk) 19:11, 5 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's pretty certain not to be right now. 1914? Really? Did they use telegraph messages? ;-) Sciamachy (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 11:33, 6 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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