Recently, social networking website MySpace has removed the accounts of 90,000 members that it had identified as being sex offenders.

The decision was prompted by the fact that United States Attorney General has requested a list comprising offenders to be made out.

Both MySpace and Facebook, another major social networking site, have stated they planned to render their websites safer, given that the number of young members was on the rise.

Despite this, the method Facebook chose to apply in order to deliver has come under questioning.

The number of sex offenders that MySpace has found translates as a huge and alarming increase and is also twice as large as the website’s officials had previously estimated last year in a preliminary forecast.

Nevertheless, Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal, who is pushing for making social networking websites safer for young users, stated for the Associated Press that the figures had not come as a surprise to him, adding that they only went to prove that websites of the like remained a haven for sex offenders.

Other measures to weed off offenders include stricter age verification and limiting contact between people under the age of 18 and those older than 18.

MySpace has deleted sex offenders’ accounts in the past, as well, with 29,000 users having been blocked back in 2007.

In order to do so, the website worked with security company Sentinel and developed a database that was used to match members’ profiles to information on convicted sex offenders.