Add It Up: On the (online) prowl
May 26, 2007 at 10:16 am by Mara Shalhoup in Add it upNumber of men arrested since December for engaging in sex acts in Hartsfield-Jackson International’s restroom stalls, prompting airport General Manager Ben DeCosta to say, “Get a roomâ€: 50
Minimum number of posts on CraigsList.com’s “casual encounters†page since mid-April by men trying to hook up with other men during a layover at Hartsfield-Jackson: 4
Number of registered sex offenders Wired magazine found on social-networking site MySpace.com, as of October 2006: 744
Estimated number of registered sex offenders MySpace claims to have purged from its membership rolls since December: 7,000
Number of state attorneys general, including Georgia’s Thurbert Baker, who signed a letter requesting the identities of the sex offenders MySpace identified: 8
Days after the May 14 letter was sent that MySpace agreed to grant the request: 7
Of the 744 MySpace sex offenders discovered by Wired, the number the magazine rechecked after MySpace claimed to have purged the majority of offenders: 9
Of those nine, the number who were still active on the site: 6
Sources: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Wired, the Associated Press, state attorney general’s office
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