Blog #4-1

Good afternoon everyone! I recently just finished reading Cyberbully by Holli Kenley which was a novel about a young girl named Taylor Hildrege who is bullied on this new social media website "Cliquester". Taylor lives with her mother and younger brother who she adores dearly. In addition, her two best friends Cheyenne and Samantha have also been using the website since it has become very popular around the high school. What Taylor doesn't know is, so one has been hacking into her account posting inappropriate pictures and comments leading to nothing but tremendous embarrassment for her and her family. As the novel progresses Taylor meets a young boy named James on Cliquester who she is more than comfortable to talk with and seems to be the only one who believes her. She tells him everything, sent him videos of her younger self, and even sang to him but for James was never there to respond back. In fact, he never sent any pictures of himself nor videos, not even a podcast. One day one of the videos Taylor had sent him was publish out to the public for everyone to see and mock her. Her depression worsened to the point were she tried to commit suicide. Luckily her mother was their to guide her and take her to the hospital before it had been to late.

It all came down to one question everyone wanted to know, why did James choose to talk to Taylor? As though all of this could have simply happened at random, James seemed to be the only one who could be there for Taylor throughout the bullying but could never show his identity. In fact, after Taylor was taken to the hospital and the releasing of the video, James had deleted his account. The police had traced back all of the data that was said off of Taylor's account including I appropriate comments and they even traced off who James was. It had turned out Taylor's best friend, Samantha had been saying all the cruel, horrific things about her friend. Plot twist?! Why do you think Samatha would betray Taylor to the point were she attempted suicide? The authors purpose was to inform the audience about the ongoing problem of cyberbullying and the serious problem it may lead to if we don't act now. Kenley intended to show descriptively how the victim felt and the consequences of what may happen if you are the bully. Cyberbullying is the use of electronic communication to bully a person typically by sending a message of an intimidating or threatening nature and should be stopped immediately if you or someone you know is a victim.