DEFRIENDED by Ruth Baron

     Defriended, by Ruth Baron, is about a typicsl teenage boy named Jason, who loves social media. He encounters a girl named Lacey, they chat through facebook, but each time Jason tries to meet her in person, she is always giving excuses to not meet. Jason takes a journey to find out why Lacey does not want to meet him in person until he learns that Lacey was dead. Jason gets theories that he chatting with someone dead, or someone who is trying to lure him to a trap. Throughout this book, Jason seems to be a stalker because he is desperate to find Lacey and meet her in person. In my opinion, i think Jason is really oblivious with his theories because there is no logical reason to be comminucating with the dead through social media such as Facebook. 

      The reason why Jason is oblivious throughout this book is, as mentioned already, he thinks that he is chatting with a dead person. It is already bad that he used his phone during class time, and almost every minute because that is a lot of time spent on his phone, but thinking that he was talking to a dead person is mortifying. Firstly, it was creepy when Jason decides to go Lacey's parents to get a little information about her. Secondly, after finding out that Lacey was dead, he does research on Lacey's past and see if it was true. This makes Jason a huge stalker because he is forcing himself to find information about someone that he met online. There was also a scene where he goes to visit Lacey's grave. It surprises me how Jason didn't immediately expect that someone was palying with him, which in fact, someone was, and Jason fell into a trap. Thus, this makes Jason quite the oblivious teenager because he could have gotten himself seriously hurt when falling into a trap by chatting with somone through social media.

      Anything can happen on social media such as cyberbullying, and people pretending to be someone who they are not to trick people into falling into a trap, which is what Jason fell into. This book overall was not amazing, but I can see how social media is dangerous. Being in Jason's situation, I would immediately stop talking to someone who was dead because you never know what dangers can happen.