Cyberbullying

Scene 1
Takes place in a dark room and a person with a laptop. The scene is
shot from behind the person and only shows the laptop. He opens a
tab on his computer and opens up a group and creates a post. It
reads ‘Beware! A criminal’s daughter goes to our school.’ with a
picture of a girl.

Scene 2
Takes place in the lunch area. A girl is eating lunch and is approached
by 2 girls.

Lily: well, look who it is. The criminal’s daughter. We better be careful or
she might steal our things. She starts laughing as she looks at her
phone.

Sarah: what do you mean by criminal’s daughter… what are you talking
about? Confused as she looks up at Lily and her friend.

Emily: seems like you haven't seen the school group. A random person
sent a post yesterday. Look! It says ‘Beware! A criminal’s daughter goes to
our school.’ she says as she pulls out her phone and shows it to
Sarah.

Lily: Emily, there's no use showing it to her. She already knows and she's
been hiding it from all of us. Let's go before we get something stolen from
us. Pulling Emily's arm so they can leave.

Sarah is just sitting there with tears in her eyes: who would do this and
how did they know. She says to herself.
She pulls out her phone from her bag and goes to the school group
and looks at the comments. Comments: 'Omg, I always knew she was
weird, but I didn't expect this.' 'I can't believe a criminal is in our
school.' 'she looks like a criminal.'

Scene 3

Takes place at Sarah's house. She is on her phone when she gets
some messages.

Girl 1: you should get kick out of school.

Boy 1: if you don’t leave the school, i will contact the police.

Girl 2: i bet that’s why no one likes you!

Boy 2: you are nothing but a thief and criminal.

Sarah looks at all the messages and then throws her phone away. She
starts to cry.

Scene 4

Takes place in the same dark room. The person is on the laptop and
opens up Facebook. He starts to write and creates a post. It says ‘The
most popular girl in our school is living a life of lies. She has no
family and is an orphan. She lives in an orphanage.’ and has a picture
of Lily.

Scene 5

Takes place at school in the lunch area. Lily is on her phone when she
is approached by her friend.

Emily: oh my gosh, I can’t believe you don’t have a family. All this time you
were fooling everyone. I thought that Sarah’s secret was bad but your
secret is even worse. Not to mention it was published on social media and
not our school group.
Lily: what! What do you mean? I thought no one knew. Who created the
post? She is confused and shocked. She looks like she is about to cry.

Emily: what, haven’t you checked your facebook page yet? Some random
person posted it there. The whole school knows about it.

Lily grabs her phone off the table and opens Facebook. She looks at
the comments.

Comments: ‘she is such a liar!’ ‘homeless girl’ ‘orphan girl’ ‘omg, I

had no idea. I knew there was something wrong about her.’

Emily: well, I am glad that came out. Now I will be the most popular girl at
school. And we are no longer friends. She says as she leaves.

Lily sits there crying. Suddenly someone comes behind her and puts
a hand on her shoulder.

Sarah: are you ok? I saw the post. I wonder who is doing this. She says as
she sits beside her.

Lily: why are being nice to me? After all the things I said to you.

Sarah: I know how it feels. Cyberbullying is a huge problem nowadays.

Anyone can get affected. The most important thing to know is that we
should be careful with what we put out on the internet.