So I just got finished watching Cyberbully with Emily Osment in it.
It is a movie that shows a teenage girl and her three best friends get involved in an online site that's like Myspace or Facebook, Cliquesters. When Emily's character, Taylor Hillridge, gets her first account she starts talking to boys and one of them turns on her and posts that he slept with her and that she gave him an STD. Everyone on the internet from her school begins to taunt her and call her dirty names. It proggessively gets worse and her two friends don't want to hang out with her anymore because people start picking on them for it. It all becomes to much for Taylor after three of the school;s popular girls post a video that depicts a pregnant Taylor, "workin her corner" and asking if she can PAY a guy to have him sleep with her!
She makes a video called, "The Real Taylor Hillridge" and posts,
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I'm the real Taylor Hillridge. I don't know why everybody hates me so much. But maybe I do. Because now I hate me too. Right now, I don't really see the reason for trying, or for talking, or for breathing. I'm just done. So that's it I guess. Bye.
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After that she tries to commit suicide by overdosing on pills but her best friend, after seeing the video she posted went to her house and stopped her. Her mom and little brother got there also to see Taylor and her friend wrestling over the pill bottle.
Taylor is kept away from school for a week and takes counceling classes where she learns that she isn't the only one with cyberbully problems and soon she stands up to everyone who hurt her.
Eventually her friendship with her two best friends is restored, and she gets a guy. It's a really great movie about friendship, internet safetey, kindness, forgiveness and of course, cyberbullying.
Since we are on an online site, I wanted to point out that we should all be careful with what we say to people on here, whether it comes to giving out information about ourselves, making new friends with people we don't really know, or when talking to others. We don't want to get hurt, and we especially shouldn't hurt anyone else.
Our words have more power than we know.
Check out the movie, it is really good and it's on instant play on Netflix. Let me know what you think about it or discuss cyberbullying problems, feel free to pm me about them and I will talk with you. My sister and I have experienced a lot of that. I would love to listen or help.