A Melbourne mother, and a child behavior consultant by profession, went undercover as a teen on , to find out what today’s teenagers up to on the popular website.

Natalie Brown, 42, was easily able to pose herself as a 14 years old by using a fake profile picture, and conduct her experiment that would shock any parent.

The Herald Sun reported that with just a few clicks she found the page of 15 years old girl being trashed by a 16 years old boy as a “drunk slut” after she wrote that he had tried to rape her.

Another few clicks and Mrs Brown found pages of other teens rating each other’s sexual abilities and another page that had complete graphic descriptions of sexual acts.

After quickly gaining 76 ‘friends’, the child behaviors consultant said that she was surprised to realize how easy it was to be accepted by strangers on Facebook, obtain phone numbers, being sent hard-core photos and even get invited parties.

Mrs Brown contacted Facebook and tried to report the offensive pages and pictures found while navigating the world’s most popular social network website and never received a response.

“I was shocked by what I saw, especially the rape comments,” she said.

“Children still don’t realise Facebook is like putting something on a billboard on a bus, and it’s always traceable.”

Cyber safety expert Susan McLean, who gives lectures in schools, said she could not condone Ms Brown’s actions in going undercover as it breached Facebook’s conditions. “It’s wrong in the extreme. She has no right to do this. Facebook would take a very dim view of this,” she said.

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(Source: The Herald Sun, News.com)