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Tell us who you think the best social networking site is, besides MySpace and Facebook. Do you think it will last another year, two, five?

I like Plurk. It's just really fun to play with. Do I think they'll last a year or two? Maybe, they do have a lot of people who really love being there.

I like Hi5 because they offer so many things to their members. I don't know if they'll last though, unless they start promoting themselves better. They need to somehow get MySpace people to realize that they have a better service.

What do you think? Tell me which are your favorites and if you think they'll last.

MySpace has all kinds of games, tools, polls, wallpapers, jokes and a lot more that you can add to your MySpace profile. There are over a thousand MySpace apps right now. Some of them are the same as the apps on Facebook, some are different.

I guess MySpace finally realized what Facebook was doing right and decided to imitate them. They even have all the basic categories that you'd expect to see. I personally am addicted to Super Slot Machines, mostly because I can play it without having to think go move.

What's your favorite MySpace app?

Facebook has an enormous amount of privacy settings that you can use to keep safe. There are 5 main ones that I want to tell you about that will help keep your teen safe while they play the day away on Facebook.

Go to the "Privacy Settings" page under the "Settings" link to get started.

1. By clicking on the "Profile" link in the settings page you'll be able to change a large number of privacy settings. Choose the level of privacy you want for your teen.

2. Scroll down the page a little and you'll see a link that says "Edit Photo Albums Privacy Settings", click on this. Now you can change the privacy settings for every photo your teen has on their Facebook profile.

3. Protect your teen's IM screen name, email address, website URL, address and phone number. Go back to the profile settings page and click on the "Contact Information" tab.

4. By starting back at Facebook's privacy settings page click on "Search". From here find "Search Visibility" and choose a setting for that. Then under "Public Search Listing" uncheck the box. This will keep strangers from finding your teen's Facebook profile while doing a search.

5. Also on the "Search" page you'll see something that says "How Can People Contact You". Think about each of these privacy settings carefully and then choose your level of privacy.

There are 6 main privacy settings that you can use on MySpace to keep teens safe while they browse around and keep in touch with their friends. For all of these MySpace privacy settings you'll need to start in your MySpace account settings page.

* The first two MySpace privacy settings I want to tell you about are in the "Privacy" tab of the account settings page.

1. On the privacy settings page you'll see a whole bunch of privacy settings that you can change. Choose just how secure you want your teen to be.

2. If you scroll down a bit you'll see a photo privacy setting. Uncheck this box if you don't want people to be able to see your teen's photos.

* The rest of the privacy settings I'm going to tell you about are in the "Spam" tab.

3. Where you see "Allow non-friends to send me messages", uncheck this option. This will keep strangers from sending your teen messages.

4. There's another option to make sure anyone asking for a friend request enters their last name and email address. This ensures that your teen already knows people who want to be added as their friend.

5. Where you see "Only friends can add comments to my blog", make sure to check this option. This will keep strangers from adding comments to your teen's profile.

6. There are several privacy settings for things like group invitations, event invitations and IM invitations. Make sure to choose your setting for this too.

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