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Investigators in Connecticut are researching three or more cases of convicted sex offenders who registered on Facebook, a popular social networking website, the New York Times reported, Monday.
State investigators “found inappropriate content and images” on the service. The investigation is ongoing and officials have requested Facebook remove the profiles.
The attorney’s general office and Representatives from Facebook were not available for comment.
Earlier this month, MySpace, another popular Internet social network, said it detected and deleted 29,000 convicted sex offenders on its service, more than four times the figure it had initially reported.
MySpace, which is owned by media conglomerate News Corp., said in May it had deleted about 7,000 user profiles that belonged to convicted offenders. MySpace attracts about 60 million unique visitors monthly in the United States.
As of May, there were about 600,000 registered sex offenders in the United States.
September 24th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
This is one of the reasons I won’t let my children have a myspace or facebook account. It scares the life out of me…
January 18th, 2008 at 1:00 am
I have the same fears, how can you not these days. That doesn’t mean its easy to deal with though!