Bully: A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people.

Bully: A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people.

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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Cyberbully premieres tonight

Just a reminder that the movie, Cyberbully, premieres tonight on ABC Family. I'll have a recap and reflections from myself and 3 teenage girls posted by tomorrow morning. I encourage everyone to check your listings for when it airs and join in on the discussion.

These are 2 of the questions I'm going to be asking the girls tonight. Thanks to CYBERBULLY Conversation Starter:


1. What online rules do you make for yourself? These are not the rules that your parents/families have in place. If you don’t make rules for yourself, what kind of rules would you like to start?

2. Why do you think people tend to share very private details about their life online? What information should stay private?


Cyberbully

Cyberbully follows Taylor Hillridge (Emily Osment), a teenage girl who falls victim to online bullying, and the cost it takes on her as well as her friends and family. Taylor is a pretty seventeen-year-old student dealing with her parents' recent divorce and painfully aware of her lower social status in high school. When her mom gives her a computer for her birthday, Taylor is excited by the prospect of going online to meet new friends without her mother always looking over her shoulder. However, Taylor soon finds herself the victim of betrayal and bullying while visiting a popular social website. Obsessed with the damaging posts, she begins to withdraw from her family and friends, including her life-long best friend, Samantha Caldone (Kay Panabaker). Tormented and afraid to face her peers at school, Taylor is pushed to an extreme breaking point. It is only after this life-changing event that Taylor learns that she is not alone – meeting other teens, including a classmate, who have had similar experiences. Taylor's mom, Kris (Kelly Rowan), reels from the incident and takes on the school system and state legislation to help prevent others from going through the same harrowing ordeal as her daughter.

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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 18, 2011 at 11:38 AM

    Could you please answer my question! I was watching cyberbully last night when my tv went dead and they are not playing the movie again tonight! Ok so here it is why does taylor's friend Samantha create the fake profile as james and then friend request Taylor and is nice at first but then starts spreading rumors about Taylor that are untrue?

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  2. Nina B.July 18, 2011 at 12:19 PM

    Taylor liked a boy that Samantha liked before. Samantha wanted Taylor to see that there were other people out there better then Scott... so she created James. Then at lunch the girls were talking and Taylor made a comment to Samantha that just because Scott broke up with Samantha didn't mean he'd break up with her. Samantha got upset. That's when Samantha made James be mean on her clicksters page. I hope that helps put everything into perspective!

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  3. Nina B.July 18, 2011 at 12:22 PM

    Also -- just read that ABC Family is going to re-air the movie on Wednesday - check your listings to see when it's on by you!

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