to find it a bit disturbing that...

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on facebook I can see hundreds of photos of teenage girls barely dressed?

My sister is 15 and I can click on most of her friends profiles, they aren't private, I've never met them and yet I can view all their photos, most of which are them in tiny shorts and top, pjs, bearing cleavage, bellies etc ... with comments from lads such as 'you look so hot / sexy'

Do their parents not check their facebooks?

Is this normal? Am I going to be 'super prude mum' as I would never let DD post such pics.

YANBU it is scary. If I do a google search for m oldest dds school in google I get a whole load of beebo pages with girls we know and playboy bunnies etc. Some of the girls are 12. I don't think their parents know.

I don't have parental controls on DD's FB (she is 14) but I do do random checks once a month or so to see what is being posted there (same as with her phone). I told her that I have concerns about what girls put up on tjier FB profile (this was prompted after seeing her cousin's facebook page where she was posing with a bra on), so she knows that i can have a look at any time. If she wasn't happy about it i said she could just not bother going on FB, so was the lesser of two evils.

Until she is 16 i will probably carry on doing this. I don;t understand half the stuff which is on it anyway, just stupid pictures of her and her mates posing with teapots or whatever, saying things are random .

Think it is a good idea for parents of teens to keep tabls like this.

I agree, it is disturbing. But, I do not want to get my DD into to mindset that all adults are to be viewed with suspision and are to be treated as guilty until proven to be OK, IYSWIM.

It's a fine line, but I agree random checks and/or parental controls are the best way, plus lots of discussions.

YANBU, my dd is 12, I check her FB regularly. Luckily there is nothing like that on there, yet. I'm not kidding myself that there won't be in the future.

YANBU. As an IT teacher I try and get my students to think about the 'digital footprint' they are laying down for the future. Once it's on the net it's there forever.

It isn't a given Heffthelump all of my neices/nephews/greats etc (ranging from 12-30) are on Facebook and they don't have any dodgy pictures at all up. Lots of silly ones and sometimes the language can be a bit hair raising, but they all seem pretty tame to me.

I hope that she'll be like your family, that's how she is at the moment.

This makes me really sad.. I have girls!