| Hi5 is a social networking website, which, throughout | | | | to join their online community. |
| 2007, was one of the 25 most visited sites on the | | | | One of the most commonly searched key words |
| web. The company was founded in 2002 by Ramu | | | | phrases on GOOGLE and YAHOO is the keywords: |
| Yalamanchi who is also the current CEO As of | | | | Hi5 proxy, unblock Hi5 and how to get on Hi5 at |
| December 2008. | | | | school such is the demand for the online service. |
| Hi5 is already comparable to Facebook in terms of | | | | Businesses/colleges and some local ISP (Internet |
| users with 35 million, but most of those are outside | | | | Service Providers) deem Hi5 unsuitable for viewer |
| of the US, which happens to be Facebook's weak | | | | ship and as a result block the service from opening. |
| area. Hi5 is one of the leading social networks in the | | | | There are many different ways to unblock Hi5 from |
| world, with over 60 million registered members. It's | | | | behind a firewall filter. However, the best and easiest |
| estimated that Hi5 gets 100,000 new people joining it | | | | way of doing so is through a personnel VPN service |
| every day and it's the most popular network in many | | | | which can be downloaded onto office or home |
| countries like Mexico and in Asia. | | | | computer. |
| In Hi5, users create an online profile in order to show | | | | What is VPN? |
| information such as interests, age and hometown and | | | | VPN or what are commonly known as VPN (Virtual |
| upload user pictures where users can post | | | | Private Network), are frequently used, to allow |
| comments. Hi5 also allows the user to create personal | | | | remote workers to make secure internet connections |
| photo albums and set up a music player in the profile. | | | | to the office network. VPN is the most advanced |
| Similar to Myspace and Facebook users can send | | | | form of anonymity and data security for use on the |
| Friend requests to friends and family to invite them | | | | Internet. |