MySpace Removes Over 90000 Sex Offenders from Site

MySpace, the ever so popular way to connect to friends, has provided the names of 90,000 registered sex offenders that they have since banned from its site due to the request of a subponea.

Almost 100,000 convicted sex offenders mixing with children on MySpace shown by our subpoena is absolutely appalling and totally unacceptable, Richard Blumenthal an Attorney General, said in a statement. For every one of them, there may be hundreds of others using false names and ages.

Child safety advocate Jill Woods says social networking sites make it a lot easier for your child to fall prey to a sex predator. "Kids have been in contact with someone and within hours, they're no longer alive."

"Kids don't understand buttons that they push and how quickly cookies can be put into their computers and people can follow in just no time at all - and know where they live, their last name, where they're going, anything about them."

To keep your children safe online, check their browsing history regularly, implment parental controls on your computer, and install software to further restrict access. The best way to insure their safety is to monitor their surfing time.

"From the minute they make contact with them, they start conversations with these kids and pretend almost always that they're the same age as the kid. They know the lingo, they know how to talk to them. They become friends."

MySpace is a social networking website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; which is owned by News Corporation, which has its headquarters in New York City. In June 2006, MySpace was the most popular social networking site in the United States.