What are some safe social networking sites that can be used as an alternative to myspace and facebook?

[Peter]

I didn't realize that MySpace and Facebook were dangerous...

Well, I mean, there's the inherent danger that comes from being in a heavily trafficked place on the internet containing personal information (stalkers, predators, etc). But those people are going to congregate on any popular social networking site. And social networking sites are entirely a function of their popularity. A well-made social networking site that's not popular isn't going to be any good. And even a poorly made, but highly trafficked social networking site is going to be "good" (look at Twitter and MySpace!).

As long as you don't give out too much personal information and you make good use of the privacy settings, Facebook and MySpace are perfectly safe. Any other site isn't going to have all your friends on it, so it kind of defeats the purpose, don't you think?