Attorneys general nationwide, including Hawaii, announced that Facebook has agreed to changes to better protect children from predators and inappropriate content and to participate in a task force on implementation of age and identity verification software.

The agreement is similar to one that MySpace reached in January 2008.

Changes agreed to by Facebook include providing automatic warning messages when a child is in danger of giving personal information to an unknown adult, restricting the ability of users to change their listed ages, acting more aggressively to remove inappropriate content and groups from the site, and requiring third party vendors to adhere to Facebook's safety and privacy guidelines.

Facebook will also display safety tips more prominently, require users under 18 to affirm that they have read Facebook's safety tips when they sign up, and regularly review models for abuse reporting.