Flagging – Xanga has developed a flagging system that allows quick reporting of sites that violate Xanga’s terms of use. The flagging system 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 designed to help limit access to material that may be age-inappropriate. 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 Locks – Xanga offers several ways to prevent your site from being accessed by certain groups of people:

• Signin Lock – With Signin Lock, only *signed in* members on the Xanga network will be able to view your site. This option helps hide your site from outsiders and also prevents it from being indexed by Search Engines. Signin Lock combined with the Footprints feature provides a powerful method for controlling and monitoring access to your site.

• Footprints Lock – With Footprints Lock, only users on the Xanga network who *display their footprints* will be able to view your site. With this lock in place, you should be able to see the username of every visitor to your site.

• Friends Lock – With Friends Lock, only users on the Xanga network you have designated as friends will be able to view your site.

Protected Posting – Protected Posting allows users to restrict access of each post to a list of specified members of the Xanga network.

User Blocking – User Blocking allows users to block certain people from commenting or subscribing to their sites.

Report Inappropriate Content – To report inappropriate content on Xanga, click here.