Until the end of 2021 Facebook led the ranking of social networks with the most active users, because according to Data Reportal, with about 2.9 billion, they use it at least once a week. It may be that the Meta platform seems to be the preferred network of people around the world, however, the platform created by Zuckerberg, more than 10 years ago, was fighting for a place.
At that time the leaders in the United States were MySpace, in Spain it was Tuenti, in Brazil the most popular was Orkut, while in the rest of Latin America Hi5 was above it for some time.
According to a report on Comscore’s social networks in June 2006, Facebook had 14 million users, while Hi5 surpassed it with 18 million.
However, this lead didn’t last long because Facebook hit 52 million in one year, while Hi5 only hit 28 million.
What happened to HI5?
The social network was born in 2003 and founded by Ramu Yalamanchi, an American of Indian origin who, at the age of 29 and graduated in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, has put all his experience in technology companies and online advertising to good use. . to create your social network.
Ramu initially tried to develop a dating site to compete against the popular Match.com, however, it did not have the expected growth.
That’s why he changed his mind to a social network where you can find old friends, meet people and share photos.
After his popularity waned, he had to do it become a video game developer. It was 2010 when it stopped being a social network and became part of social games; however, after recording nearly 3 billion visits per month, the site dropped to just 46 million. If you currently want to try to log in you will realize that this no longer exists.
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