MySpace, a social networking site, has long been a place for sexual predators to reach out to our children.  They are now taking a small but important step to help keep the bad guys out.

State attorney generals started mining MySpace accounts a few years ago in search of predators.  In North Carolina alone, 29,000 were identified.  MySpace took those names down.

MySpace has now agreed to work with 49 state attorneys to verify the identities and ages of people who use the site.  There are over 300 million MySpace accounts that exist currently.  There is a minimum age of 14 to open an account, but the challenge has been finding the adults posing as teens and luring unsuspecting children.  Since MySpace is doing something about this, it might scare off predators from even thinking about using this website as a lure.

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