Girl Online

For our first book we decided to read Girl Online.
Girl Online is the debut novel by  the internet celebrity Zoe Sugg,  It was released on 25 November 2014 through Penguin Books.
**Spoiler Alert**  Penny is a high school girl in Brighton. Under the alias GirlOnline, she blogs about school dramas, boys, her mad, whirlwind family and the panic attacks she’s suffered from after a traumatic car accident. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets the gorgeous, guitarist Noah. Suddenly Penny is falling in love and capturing every moment of it on her blog. What she doesn’t know is that Noah is a famous American singer and composer that’s rumored to be dating another singer Lea Brown. Once the paparazzi take photographs and Noah and Penny they start rumors online and once Penny gets back home the photographs are leaked and her identity is revealed and she receives a lot of bad press and followers of her blog start turning on her. She feels guilty and stupid but Noah steps in and in an interview her sates that he and Lea Brown were never in a relationship and he and Penny didn’t do anything. Clearing her name. People start treating her well online and many apologize. The end. **Spoiler Alert Over**

I sent a message to my club as follows. (Spoiler Alert in paragraph 1)
“How does the media disrupt the lives of famous personalities? In Girl Online Penny is emotionally hurt when  her identity is  leaked and pictures of her and Noah are posted online. She gets a lot of bad press and people start to hate her. Many readers of her blog leave hateful comments.
This week we’ll have a meeting in which we will discuss this aspect of the press. Come prepared with facts and notes about how the paparazzi interferes and pesters famous people.”

The meeting:-
Date- 23rd April
Members- Aria and Ella
During the meeting we discussed the bad effects of the media. Ella spoke about Princess Diana, how she died while speeding to avoid the paparazzi and met with an accident. Two others died along with her.
Aria spoke about Kendle Jenner and how she grabbed a paparazzi camera and thew it at them because she was so annoyed and sick of them taking pictures of her. The paparazzi twisted this and spread a rumor that she punched the photographer even though she did not.
We conclude the meeting saying that everything has good and bad points and you should never pester someone so much that it rusts in harming a person on property.