Why didn't she just delete it?

I completely agree. Why didn't she just delete the page if it was causing her so many problems. A cyber bully can't exist without some kind of internet interaction

It's one of the few things that didn't make sense to me. She started crying and getting all upset because people had already seen it. But I don't get why she still couldn't do what her friends said to and delete it and post that she was hacked. People may not have believed her, but at least the status wouldn't be there anymore.

That would have been far too easy. Sometimes, teenagers (and people in general) don't realize how many simple solutions there are to their problems. If I were her mom, I would have forbidden her to have computer access indefinitely. She clearly wasn't mature or responsible enough to handle it.

Would deleting it fix the real problem? It would keep spiraling out of control. *beep*, can't you just understand that? It just toxifies this young population and infects everybody coming into contact with it. Young teens have no idea about it, no understanding nor real knowledge about it. Do you blame a baby for not driving a car? No, you teach it to ride a bike at some age and then drive a car at 16-18. There's a time to learn it. People are by very nature curious, and if they don't understand something that's such a big part of their life (and a computer has very positive effects on everyone, just not that part) then they will just keep going deeper and deeper to understand it until it's tangling you. Like anyone at a mature age who gets passionate about something, because kids are easier at indulging themselves into something than us adults. Kids just haven't had enough experiences to build upon yet. A lot of things left and right are new, hell even people in their 20's still haven't seen most of it yet. Do not pretend like it's such an easy thing because you're carrying it out of context.

I agree, OP but think about it: most people her age would over react to that extend, too. Like what her mother said in the film, the internet became part of their life, their world. They just can't simply log out of it.

It was really dumb to begin with. I've seen worse cyberbullying done in TV shows - granted they were legal and crime procedural shows - but they were certainly much more alarming than what's happening here.

i thought the same thing. I think that's the problem with people. They don't just delete their accounts. She seemed addicted to it, desperately wanting to know what everyone thought about her and what they were saying about her. It's some sort of self centeredness that we have as people. This desire to hear what's being said about us even if it hurts.

I hope you like feminist rants because that's kind of my thing.

i think if she deleted her profile the problem would have ended and there would be no movie and the movie is about bullying on the internet

It's actually easier said than done. Some people, especially at Taylor's age, may react like she did to the statuses in the movie immediately after they see them. But deleting the posts is kinda a tougher thing to do as, despite how painful it may be, some people may still become extremely curious about what people are saying about them, or they would feel the need to know. So they'd just keep checking the posts. I think that might be how Taylor felt. She needed to know what people were saying about her, though it was best she didn't. :P Deleting the post won't necessarily work either because it won't stop the cyber bullies from posting more.