MySpace has partnered with 45 states, hoping to prevent sexual predators from using the social networking site to lure children and teenagers.
Among other measures, MySpace agreed to:
- Allow parents to submit children's e-mail addresses to MySpace to prevent anyone from misusing the addresses to set up profiles
- Make the default setting "private" for 16- and 17-year-old users.
- Respond within 72 hours to complaints about inappropriate content and devote more staff and resources to classify photographs and discussion groups.
- Strengthen software to find underage users.
- Create a high school section for users under 18 years old.
What do you think? Will it work or will the sexual predators find a way around it? We hate to be pessimists, but...
[Yahoo!: Myspace agrees to new safety measures]