Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Cyber BULLYING


Photo courtesy of the ABC Original Movie "Cyberbully"
  On the night of June 25, 2012, we watched the ABC Family Original Movie, Cyber-bullying. It was about a young girl in high school who was mentally abused on an online website. 
  A fake page for a young man named James, who pretended to like her, was created. It started off small and went viral within minutes. Her friends started to leave her at school by herself because of guilt by association. The young man she had a crush on started to ignore her at one point, and it seemed as if life was over for her. The usual "mean girl" in the high school, constantly made snide comments and embarrassed her on the social network. 
  The bullying not only affects her, but her family and friends. In attempts to get her life back together, she says some hurtful things to her best friend and eventually tries to kill herself. 
  She creates a video called "The Real Taylor Hillridge". This video would have been the last thing anyone would see before she digested more than enough pain killers and overdosed. However, her best friend stopped her before she went through with it. After a few days in the hospital, and multiple group therapy sessions, she started to get better. 
  Taylor's mom then decides that the cyber bullying has gone too far. She takes the issue of cyber bullying to the state legislature and demands that an anti-cyberbullying bill be passed. 
  Just when things started to look brighter for her, she found out that her best friend Samantha was the person who created the fake account of this guy James. A turn in events started to occur after everything came to the light. 
  Now it was Samantha's turn to see how it felt to be the target of bullying. Word got around that she created the fake page and as a result, her peers then turned on her. Even after all of the tormenting Taylor received from her best friend Samantha, she stood by her and helped her through what she already went through. The movie does a good job at showing people exactly how mean words can affect people and their lives.

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