It may still look horribly ugly, but thanks to measures undertaken by the company, MySpace is at least a moderately safer place to hang out today: The website has canceled the accounts of 90,000 sex offenders and sexual predators.

That number is considerably higher than was previously reported. North Carolina's Attorney General had estimated that a mere 29,000 known predators were trolling the system. MySpace itself had estimated 50,000 offenders at one point.

In addition to the purge, both MySpace and its clean-cut younger brother Facebook are implementing new rules and restrictions on the use of their services in order to keep sex offenders from accessing accounts there. Those rules include better age verification, restrictions against older users searching for minors on the site, and an outright ban on sex offenders from registering in the first place. For its part, Facebook says it's never had a case of a "registered sex offender meeting a minor" through its service. However, the company that provides MySpace's sex offender tracking software says it's found at least 8,000 sex offenders on Facebook. (Facebook disputes those numbers.)