Xanga Safety Features

Xanga has many features that enhance safety and privacy - and they work best when you know how to use them! Use of these features - combined with common sense - can really help a lot, but please remember that there is no silver bullet! Please be careful online.
From The Xanga Team

Xanga's Safety Features

  • Flagging - Xanga has developed a flagging system that allow users to easily report sites that violate Xanga's terms of use. The flagging system launched on May 1, 2006, helps Xanga staff identify inappropriate sites, which may be shut down and reported to authorities, such as the CyberTipline run by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
  • Ratings and Safebrowse - To address the issue of clean content, Xanga has created a Ratings system that, among other things, limits access to age-inappropriate material. This Ratings system launched on May 26th, allowing members to self-rate their own content.
    Xanga users can choose to view content only if it's rated below a certain level by setting their SafeBrowse preference.
  • Xanga Footprints - With Xanga Footprints, any participating Xanga member can see the usernames of signed-in visitors to their site. If visitors are not signed in, then the Country or State is shown instead. Xanga supports an optout for this feature, much as the phone companies do for Caller ID.
  • Xanga Footprints Lock - With Xanga Footprints Lock, Xanga members can require anyone viewing their site to be both signed in and have Xanga Footprints activated. With Xanga Footprints Lock activated, all visitors to your site will appear in your Footprints.
  • Xanga Lock - With Xanga Lock, only other Xanga members can get access to a given site. This not only hides the site from outsiders, it also prevents the site from being indexed by Search Engines. Xanga Lock combines with the Footprints feature to provide a powerful method for controlling and monitoring access to a given site.
  • Protected Posting - Protected Posting allows users to restrict access of each post to a list of specified friends.
  • User Blocking - User Blocking allows users to block certain people from commenting or subscribing to their sites.
  • Report Inappropriate Content - For more information on reporting inappropriate content on Xanga, click here.

Parental Control Software

  • There are several third-party software programs that can assist parents in screening and limiting material that their children can view online. For links to some popular parental control programs, please visit this page.

September 15, 2006

Xanga Helping Parents From The Xanga Team

Xanga would like to help parents in their efforts to keep their families safe online.  Toward that end, Xanga offers Safety Tips for Parents and links to popular parental control programs.

June 20, 2006

Xanga’s Safety Features From The Xanga Team

Xanga has many features that enhance safety and privacy - and they work best when you know how to use them! To learn more, please check out our new Xanga Safety Features section.