MySpace’s officials announced that through its efforts to make the popular Web site a safer place for its younger users, close to 90,000 sex offenders have been identified and removed from the social network.

North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper released a statement yesterday saying that the number of removed users is almost double from last year’s estimates presented by the company. Mr. Cooper, accompanied by Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, supervised the efforts to make MySpace a safer place for minors to visit and hang out.

These concerns have also been announced by another social networking page, Facebook, which is also extremely interested in these safety issues.

"As the first and only social-networking site to use state-of-the-art technology to identify and remove registered sex offenders from its site, MySpace is proud of its leadership position and hopes that Facebook follows our lead in providing their members with the same protections," the statement from MySpace read. It also added that any information on the removed profiles will be forwarded to the authorities, if needed for further investigations.

Users are also invited to help, as the investigation would never end without such an additional aid. There is a set of options that users can choose from, announcing the company about the content of a certain photo or profile.

This is considered highly important by all parents, as it is a well known fact that teenagers spend a significant amount of time on such social networks, and the content should be age appropriate.