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CNN) -- Facebook has joined forces with five Internet groups to help protect kids, the social-networking site said.

"We believe that the only way to keep kids safe online is for everyone who wants to protect them to work together," Elliot Schrage, a Facebook vice president, said in a statement Sunday.

"The formation of a board to advise specifically on safety issues is a positive, innovative and collaborative step toward creating a more robust safety environment, and we are thrilled that such a well-respected, trusted group of organizations has joined us in this endeavor."

Making up the advisory board are Common Sense Media, ConnectSafely, WiredSafety, Childnet International and the Family Online Safety Institute.

Facebook's announcement comes less than a week after it added new privacy features, including the ability for users to select who can see each post made to the Web site.


I think this is a very good idea for the ever so popular networking site know as facebook. Kids can log on and basically post whatever they want within reason and it is causing a lot of grief for some parents. I think everyone working together to monitor the kids access to the popular site is a much needed feature of the site. Some kids are just to nieve about the danger of online predators and I believe this is absolutley necessary in order to protect our children.