Internet and children, that is truly something we should be concerned about, as more online predators are waiting for an opportunity to change something that should be fun and innocent into something much more serious.

Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society will be in charge of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, a project that aims at eliminating internet predators from reaching children. Popular sites such as MySpace, Facebook, Google and others will greatly benefit from that.

"The safety concerns posed by the Internet are part and parcel of the safety concerns that arise in human interactions in the physical world. These concerns are not unique to any one service or technology platform; they are shared by the companies that provide Internet services and the individuals who use these services,” said John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center.

At the same time, MySpace responded to Harvard’s initiative: “The principle we have adopted set forth what the industry needs to strive toward to provide a safer online experience for teens,” MySpace Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam said in a press release.

If things are to go as planned, the group of experts will figure ways to stop children from viewing inappropriate content on the Internet or from being or making contact with persons that can later prove to be dangerous to the children’s safety.

Online safety is not really a new topic emerging, but rather an old problem that needs to be solved, as more and more cases of online attacks appear, involving especially young people. There will be an assessment to what has been done good or bad in the past, and possibly new solutions to stop sex-offenders will be found.