MySpace: 90,000 Sex Offenders Purged From Web Site

90,000!! That amount is just unimaginable! So many perverts, it's disgusting!

I heard about this. Thank gawd they did! I had to block my profile from public view b/c I kept getting disgusting emails from creepy guys!!!

Thank goodness they are working to get them removed.

Wow, I never got any creepies on myspace thank goodness....it probably scared them away with all the death photos on there...lol

I use MySpace alot, love it - this is why parents need to monitor their kids though! There's no such thing as SAFE cyberspace!

Wow! :O

Isn't that just the sickest......

You really hate to think that there are so many sick people out there! But in this day and age, there is no such thing as too much caution!

OMG!!!! I knew there was a reason I don't let my eldest have a page there !!
that is just sick!!

Don't get me wrong I detest a pedo as much as the next guy, but is it MySpaces job to protect the kiddies from the freaks? I think not. This is another example of someone or something other than parents raising kids. To have myspace do this is to suggest that their site is now safe for kids to use unsupervised and that's just not the case. How did they know who was and wasn't a pedo on my space, do the freaks put in their profiles I am a child molester or sex offender, what molester would even use his real name on myspace? This whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth, unsupervised internet use by children is bad business and not being a decent parent is bad business. If your worried about the freaks getting to your children install some lagging software and keep track of where they go and what they do, or better yet when your not in the room have little Timmy or Suzy un hook and head out to the playground. I have heard that they passed a new law where sex offenders aren't allowed to go to play grounds so they should be safe there... NOT! Please parents just be parents!

you know what amazes me is that this place allows anyone over the age of 13. not good

The police went to my daughter's middle school and gave them a lecture about precautions you can take when using MySpace & Facebook. They told them what to look for, what should raise their suspicions, that kind of thing. I thought it was really great that they did that. She was so concerned about it she came home and double checked her MySpace settings to make sure that no one she hadn't added as a friend could even view her profile. She made her friend at school do the same. I think that's great. More kids need to be aware of siko's like this and take it seriously. I have her password and can log in as her any time I want to check what she's been doing and who she's been talking to. She never knows when I might do it and if she ever changes her password so that I cannot access it, she knows that is grounds for taking down the whole page permanently. So far so good. She's had the page for about a year now and we haven't had a single incident. Mostly she just talks with her friends from school and church. Now that we've moved, she keeps in touch with those she left behind in Louisiana. When used appropriately, MySpace & Facebook can be a great way to keep friendships going and stay in touch with loved ones. It's a shame that there are so many people out there who would use it for nefarious purposes.

I bet that number is far higher than that. Ones that have never been convicted or haven't registered they are a member there.

Any social networking site will have pervs liek that on there. I have never thought My Space was a good place for kids at all.

I do however think My Space should make it was someone under a certain can not be contacted by someone of age. It is not foolproof. But helps.

Good to hear. Thanks for sharing.

My ten year old wanted to know why I wouldn't let her have a facebook or myspace and told her because I said so...when this came out, I told her that's why. Need I say more...

anything that is done to stop that behavior is fine by me. Jody is right her. Parents need to be aware of what , where and who in their childrens lives

90,000 that's a really scary number. That's why I don't think that myspace can really be trusted, mainly if you're under the age of 18 or so.

there are way more than 90,000 loose among us, teach your children to always BEWARE

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im kinda with jody on this one. but hey, its not a bad thing at all. i figured it would be more like half the users on the site, the other half being the young girls....i really dont like myspace

I am getting sick of hearing about myspace, I am getting ready to delete my account there

My parents taught me to look both ways before crossing the street, to find a police officer if I felt uncomfortable around any adult, and to exchange info through a window rolled down only 2" if I was rear-ended after dark. If the internet had been as widely accessible then as it is now, I'm sure I would have gotten safe-user tips from them and been supervised using it before being allowed unsupervised access. I do think teaching and driving safe behaviors is the parents' responsibility, but I strongly support community education (such as the police provided in Brandy M.'s post) because not every child has equally informed parents. At no time would I assume an open-membership site (or even most restricted-membership sites) would be safe because of a one-time purge.

I feel young people should not be with adults on these sites. Kids are kids. yahoo answers is all kiddies too anymore.
I get tired of baby sitting other people, lazy parents kids.

Good they caught all these weirdo's, myspace would have never had to be involved if parents were more involves with THERE kids.

I've never understood the attraction to MySpace --- I mean, we basically do the same thing here --- but get "paid" for it. So, why do the same at MySpace FOR NO "PAY"?

My kids will never be allowed to have a MySpace page --- until they move out of my house (age 18) and they are not allowed computers in their rooms either. I have two boys and there is no way I want them accessing trash from the privacy of their bedrooms!

And, that's just the ones who use their real names, I bet.

WOW!!

I second that Heidi!

For once, I agree with Jody.

a step in the right direction... it is ultimately up to the parents..

Well, while I applaud getting the pervs off of the kid-friendly website, does anyone wonder how in the world you can identify a pedophile on a website? Surely they don't have a little MySpace banner that reads "Perv"...

Is there some Federal listing of people's computers that allows them to track who's who?

Is the hair on your neck lifting like mine is???

Unreal! Thanks for posting~

its about time

Wow

thank you for sharing this

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I herd about this,its crazy

How many "crazies" do you think are on Gather? Just wondering... (and by crazies I mean people pedophiles, sex offenders, etc...)

Good for them, but they really should have started taking real action sooner.

Thanks for the great comments everyone.
Yes, it is indeed the parents responsibility for keeping their children safe on the internet. But it is also the service providers responsibility as well to make it as safe an environment as they possibly can, though it will never be close to 100%. And the ones they did find is more than likely a handful in comparison to how many are actually out there.

I think this is alarming and that is just the ones that they are aware of now. We all know there are more that weren't caught.

I hate the way they invade everything.

you know not everyone accused of being a pervert actually is one there are kids out there who like to make shit up just to get people in trouble i detest those who are actually doing this but also feel sorry for those who are unjustly accused and unless you know for a fact you really shouldn't judge a person i am sur thre are younger children who dont make this stuff up but I do know for a fact that that there are teen ageers that accuse just because a person has peed them off in some way

isnt there an age limit on gather the companys should have to worry about things like this if parents do there jobs and keep there children off of adult sites

That's a lot of people. it is scary that there are so many of them out there.

I agree with Karen. Although alot of sickos are out there, the term sex offender is thrown around so much when it's not neccesary. An 18 year old guy has sex with his 17 and a half year old girlfriend and he's automatically called a sex offender.