MySpace said it has reached an agreement with 49 states, including the District of Columbia, to work together in adding extensive measures to prevent the sexual predators which look for their victims on online social-networking sites.
The social networking website headquartered in Beverly Hills, California said it has agreed, besides introducing many online protections, to take part in a working group with the aim of developing age-verification and other similar technologies.

The deal to work together against the sexual predators was made public in Manhattan by attorneys general from North Carolina, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey. The goal of the group effort is to achieve a greater control for online networking sites, a control made mandatory by the numerous cases of sexually abused children contacted with the use of those sites.

"We thank the Attorneys General for a thoughtful and constructive conversation on Internet safety," said MySpace Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam in a press release. "This is an industry-wide challenge and we must all work together to create a safer Internet."

Sites such as MySpace and Facebook.com were lately the subject of intensified examination from investigators, who have reportedly set up Facebook profiles as 12- to 14-year olds and were promptly contacted by other users looking for sex.

The above mentioned example of means of investigation took place in New York, but similar investigations were carried out in numerous states in 2007. The investigations were started so authorities could come up with measures to protect minors and remove pornographic material.

"We have to find the best way to make sure parents have the tools ... to protect their children when they're on social networking sites," North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said in September 2007, according to CNNMoney.com.

MySpace, the social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally, will accept independent monitoring and changes to the structure of its site.