Here at Hibe we have been building a platform to help people deepen their interactions with their different social contexts and give them 100% control over their online identity. Now that the project is nearing completion, we thought we would break down how Hibe will empower users and what sets us apart from the current status quo.

Providing Power Over Your Identity

With facets, you can control the way your different social circles see and interact with you. You can choose a different avatar, contact and personal information for each facet, and organize all of your contacts so they see you through whichever context you want.

With other social networks most users are faced with a choice; either censor your thoughts to be appropriate for everyone, or risk alienating some of your contacts. On Hibe, you can share fully with everyone, instead of settling with half sharing. Hibe allows you to be your complete self, fully exploring all of your social contexts with the peace of mind of knowing the right content is shared with the right people.

Giving More Control

So we’ve seen how facets allow you to establish a stronger online identity, but how exactly does Hibe give you more control over your content?

Your contacts can only view the posts and booklets that you choose. When you post something, you have the choice to limit your post to be visible to only certain groups of people- so you can always be sure who is seeing what. No Resharing, no friend of friends – just your choices.

On Hibe you are also able to control which of your contacts are able to see each other. This is a feature unique to Hibe, in that most other social networks take the approach of complete visibility. On Hibe, only contacts that you place in the same facet are able to see each other. That means a contact in one facet is not able to see who you are connected to in another facet, therefore protecting your other contacts, and your privacy.

Keeping It Simple

At Hibe we make a point of maintaining a respectful approach to our users’ choices and information.

Since Hibe gives its users complete control over who they share their information with by giving them the power to organize and share with their contacts accordingly, privacy is assured by default, for everyone. Furthermore we will never introduce new features that make information public or use an ‘opt out’ approach. We think doing otherwise shows a lack of respect to users.

Since we believe in the freedom of choice in social interactions, we will never purposely obscure or complicate our privacy policy or create complicated privacy settings. It is our intent to create an atmosphere of respect, understanding and security.

Launch Schedule

Hibe is happy to announce that we will be launching next week on August 1st. The first step in this process will be transferring all current accounts to the new system, which will be taking place during this first week. After this process, our priority will be honoring pre-registrations on Hibe and opening up invitations to a much broader audience.

Stay tuned in the next week for updates on Twitter and here on our blog.

Relevant Links:
News from Hibe: New video and production update
1 Minute video on youtube