The instructions are simple — post your picture online and see what happens.

A Facebook page where teens post pictures of themselves and wait for strangers to comment on their looks drew critical comments from at least one Saskatoon teen recently.

“No one deserves to go on there and have their self-esteem taken away because of one comment that you made,” said Kerrobert, Sask. grade nine student Kate Brooks-Harvey. “To me, everyone is beautiful, everyone has flaws, but that’s what makes people beautiful.”

Comments on the photos range from compliments, to trolling, to flat-out cruelty with statements such as, “You’re ugly. You should kill yourself.” Many are racist and homophobic.

Brooks-Harvey, who has been bullied herself, reported the harassment and inappropriate pictures she saw on the page to Facebook because she wanted the page removed.

“I’ve tried to commit suicide and self-harming, and to see someone else go through that kind of thing and not be able to stop them… is just heart breaking,” she said.

Brian Trainor, a retired Saskatoon police officer and anti-cyberbullying expert, said the insults can be tragic.

“The results of putting yourself out there with a photograph and asking for people to judge you will be destroyed self-esteem. If not nipped in the bud, it will lead to depression, or worse, suicide,” Trainor said.

Facebook removed the page, which seeks out Canada’s “cutest teens,” after CTV contacted the site, but there are still numerous pages like it on the social media site.

Officials from Facebook said the company relies on users to report inappropriate pages, harassment and sexually explicit photos, but with 400 million photos shared every day, it’s a lot to keep up with.

The site recently increased its effort to reduce bullying by making it easier for teens to contact an adult on the site when they feel bullied.

Kate’s mom, Cathy Harvey, said parents need to make an effort to keep up with the technology their kids are using.

“As a parent we can’t keep up with our kids because they know way more about technology than we do, but we have to start learning because they’re putting themselves in harm’s way,” she said.

The federal government introduced new legislation Wednesday to help reduce cyberbullying. The legislation, which follows several high-profile bullying cases across Canada, makes it illegal to distribute "intimate images" without consent.