In a statement, MySpace security officer Hemanshu Nigam said the site’s top priority is to provide safety and security for its members, adding that removing accounts of sex offenders is one way to protect young users.

According to lawyer Roy Cooper who co-chairs the State Attorney General Task Force on Social Networking, the sex offenders’ number in the online community are more than expected, adding they are doing various measures to make the site safer for young users.

Cooper said they are trying to work with other popular social networking sites like Facebook to address the looming problem of sex offenders proliferating from the Internet who pose great threats to users especially young children and teens.

The lawyer said that sexual predators have started targeting online community because this place is widely-popular among young people as their way to communicate with their peers, adding that social sites should make sure that its users are safe from online threats especially from sex offenders.

Last year, Internet giants MySpace and Facebook agreed to work with the State Attorney General Task Force in an effort to make the social sites safer for its users.

MySpace and Facebook officials passed various measures to safeguard young people such as prohibiting convicted sex offenders from making profile account and using the sites to communicate with other users; limiting older people from searching users under the age of 18; and verification of the users’ real age.

Recently, authorities arrested Jesse Clay Scott, a 33-year-old man and convicted sex offender, for violating his parole conditions as he allegedly accessed MySpace.

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