Is this enough? I don't think so. I can't imagine what it must be like inside Facebook, as their recent growth has been astronomical (they currently have 47 million users!) But no matter, I would argue that more still needs to be done.

Do I pretend to have the solution? Not for a moment. Is the problem only at Facebook? Of course not.

Reading the New York Times, I learned that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Attorney General Roy Cooper of North Carolina are co-chairs of a national social networking task force of all 50 state attorneys general. They have issued their own press release in response to the New York/Facebook settlement, calling for much stronger actions.

In fact, they call for six specific steps. Are you ready? Quoting from their own release, here they are:

* Requiring age and identity verification for users 18 and older, and parental permission for users younger than 18.

* Implementing filtering technology to screen out sexually explicit, racist, violent or other mature images and significantly increasing the number of staff reviewing such images.

* Prohibiting sexually explicit and other inappropriate word and phrase searches.

* Hiding minors' profiles from adults.

* Limiting minors' search options.

* Removing inappropriate advertising targeting minors.

* Barring minors from accessing sexually orientated and other inappropriate web site groups.

All these sound pretty good .. of course the devil is in the details ... and I might argue implementation. But these sound like good conversation starters.

Your thoughts?