The film follows the life of 17-year-old high-school student Taylor Hillridge (Emily Osment). When she turns 17 she gets a laptop from her mother for her birthday, with strict instructions not to go on anything inappropriate. She and her friends Samantha Caldone (Kay Panabaker) and Cheyenne Mortenson (Meaghan Rath) immediately sign her up for a social networking site that all the students in her high school are on - including Lindsay Fordyce (Nastassia Markiewicz), the school bully.
Things start to go wrong when Taylor's brother Eric (Robert Naylor) hacks into her profile and posts a rude message, gaining many responses from boys. Lindsay and her posse immediately begin trashing Taylor online and she becomes afraid to attend school and face her classmates. Slowly her friends begin to desert her and the abuse Taylor is suffering from pushes her to breaking point. Taylor posts a video online telling her schoolmates that she is "done" and then tries to overdose with pills, but Samantha arrives in the nick of time while Taylor is trying to get the cap off. She is sent to a support group that helps her immensely, and her mother takes action to enforce a law against cyberbullying in their state. Taylor and Samantha stand up to Lindsay, along with some of the other students and the social networking site is safe to go on again.
This show is so realistic and brilliantly plotted - one of the only movies I've ever cried at.
