Skylar's Role In Social Media

The Incident Two 16-year-old girls betrayed their best friend, taking her out on a night ride and then stabbing her to death. The two girls believed that their “friend” knew too many private things about them. They often engaged in multiple arguments with each other on the social media page twitter taunting one another about the information they knew. Which led the two girls to plot a way to take care of this “problem,” their best friend. The two girls picked up their third friend from her home around midnight for a night drive out to the wilderness, where they planned to smoke marijuana. Once they reached their destination, the two girls asked the victim, Skylar Neese to walk to the car to get a cigarette lighter. When Skylar did so, …show more content…
Neese, Eddy, and Shoaf had been constantly on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, adding post and sharing pictures. Before the incident occurred, Skylar had posted a few things on twitter about her friends leaving her out on certain occasions. The saying, “Three is a crowd” perfectly describes this trio’s relationship towards the end. The two accused had been spending a lot of time together without inviting the third friend, which led her to feel left out. Many classmates stated that Sheila Eddy and Skylar had been fighting a lot leading up to the incident. One of Skylar’s last tweets was reported to be some kind of warning saying “Just know I Know.” The victim knew of an apparent sexual relation between the two convicted and in the mist of their arguing, used that information as a verbal weapon of defense. Making your parents proud is very important during your teenage years. The three girls were honor students in their school, with active social lives. This pressure made it vital that any kind of secret affair was not to be known, and once the accused felt threatened they took matters into their hands. A simple “we did not like her,” was the answer they had as to why they brutally killed their best