Facebook removes 5,500 sex offenders

FACEBOOK has removed more than 5,500 convicted sex offenders from its social networking site since last May.

Connecticut’s attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, said the world’s largest social networking site, which claims to have more than 175 million active members, reported to his office that 5,585 convicted sex offenders were found on the website and removed between May 1, 2008, and January 31.

“The message in this number is Facebook has an equal stake in solving this problem of protecting children,” said Mr Blumenthal.