Facebook Agrees to Up Efforts to Protect Young Users
Facebook has been working to come up with a strategy that would protect its younger users, while still allowing adult Facebookers the ability to use and navigate the social site without any impediments. The company has reached an agreement with 49 state attorneys to implement a broad strategy for safety which includes: requiring users under 18 to confirm they have read the site's safety tips and a large "report abuse" icon prominently display on the site. The site is currently working on ways to verify the age of its users -- which is one of the big challenges currently tripping it up.