Hot or Not

I heard about a lot of things my friends were doing online, that were really mean or just plain crazy. I never thought I'd do anything like that. 

One day my friend Pat showed me a website he made.  He posted a list of girls in our school and had guys we know go on and rate them, sort of a "hot or not" kind of website.

I thought it was pretty funny so I rated them too.  We had a good laugh and I thought that was the end of it. 

The next day everyone at school was talking about it.  He had sent it out to the whole school to see. 

I could tell a couple girls had been crying. I knew it was because what the guys had said about them and how they looked.

I felt bad, but I didn't really get it until I went home that night.  

Turns out the guys had put my little sister on the site too, but hid it from me because they knew I would get upset.

She was crying when I got home and she wouldn’t even look at me.

I would never have said those things to someone's face.  I didn't even mean them. I thought it was just a joke between friends.

Now Pats suspended from school and they might kick me out too.  Once you put something online you lose control of it, you can never get it back.

People can use it in ways you never even meant. I learned that the hard way. I wish I never saw that stupid site.