History Headscratchers / Unfriended

* Why would everyone won't confess on who uploaded the video even though Laura demonstrated that she knows ALL of their secrets.

** They think it's a prank at first and are too scared to do so once people start dying.

* How does not a single person involved think to just close their laptop?

** She went after them specifically because they were supposed to be ''her'' friends[[note]]save for Val, as shown in the beginning. Laura killed her because she played a part in the bullying AND she shot down Laura's cry for help.[[/note]] and yet, they were the reason why she was being bullied in the first place[[note]] Her best friend Blaire took the video, Mitch posted it on YouTube with the title "Laura Barns Kill Urself", and they all made anonymous accounts to bully and troll her.[[/note]] and also, they disrespected her AFTER she died[[note]]Jess desecrated her grave and Ken nonchalantly talks ill of Laura on the anniversary of her suicide, only to apologize when he realizes he's being heard by Blaire.[[/note]].

** Ken also stated that he thought Laura deserved to die, rather nonchalantly on the anniversary of her death, and considering that everyone, or at least Blaire, thought that Val would be the type to hack a Laura's account for a prank, she probably wasn't one of Laura's favorite people ever.

*** Val messaged Laura that she should kill herself before she died. As for Ken, it was suggested that all of the people in the chat had made facebook sock puppets to pick on her, he was almost certainly part of that. Beyond that, all of them were all fair-weather friends who failed to show her any support when she needed them.

*** Yeah, but that still doesn't make sense, even if we assume she was out for revenge. Sure, he was probably part of making fun of her, and did talk about her deserving to die, but it's implied that all the others did something directly to Laura (such as Val's rejection of taking the video down, Jess defaced her grave, Mitchell uploaded the video, Blair originally recorded it, only excluding Adam, who was not a very good person, since he roofied a girl and slept with his best friend's girlfriend), and it's implied that Laura was a bully as well, and could be assumed she bullied Ken. A bullied person would not have good feelings towards the bully, so it makes sense he didn't like her. He was probably not her friend. So Ken seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time more than an actual motivated death.

** "I wish I could forgive you, Blair." Let's take her literally for a second. She's out for vengeance, yeah, but when you think about it, couldn't her sparing Blaire for the end have been her giving a chance at redemption?
* Isn't it weird that these kids hang around each other in the first place? Blair, Adam, and Mitch especially, what with Blair obviously being the least trustworthy friend. They obviously don't care that much for her in the first place, why do they bother being friends?

*** But after clicking refresh, Blaire DID unfriend Laura, which set much of the movies' events in motion. Why she didn't go straight for the "report/block" choice is beyond me.

* Why did Blaire try to get help by going on chatroulette? Admittedly, it did (sort of) work, but why would that be her first thought?

*** When Adam tried to call the police after Val's attack, Laura seemed to have gotten into his phone and pretended to be a dispatcher. This troper figured that Blaire knew that calling on her own phone would be useless, so she decided to try a random person from god knows where so Laura couldn't get to them. However, we don't know the extent of Laura's powers, so it's possible that she may have done the same thing with the woman on Chatroulette who called the police for Jess.

** Also, Laura is as evil as the others. The footage we see of her at the party shows her shoving Val (the friend no one likes) down. When Val stands up and threatens to beat Laura up, but hesitates; Laura ridicules her immediately, enticing everyone at the party to mock and publically humiliate Val.

** Laura is something of a hypocrite. There's a loose betrayal theme between Blair and Laura, since Blair filmed Laura passed out; but during the drinking game it is revealed that Laura tried to have sex with Blair's boyfriend Mitch a year before, but he rejected her.

** She went after them specifically because they were supposed to be ''her'' friends[[note]]save for Val, as shown in the beginning. Laura killed her because she played a part in the bullying AND she shot down Laura's cry for help.[[/note]] and yet, they were the reason why she was being bullied in the first place[[note]] Her best friend Blaire took the video, Mitch posted it on Youtube with the title "Laura Barns Kill Urself", and they all made anonymous accounts to bully and troll her.[[/note]] and also, they disrespected her AFTER she died[[note]]Jess desecrated her grave and Ken nonchalantly talks ill of Laura on the anniversary of her suicide, only to apologize when he realizes he's being heard by Blaire.[[/note]].
* Near the beginning we see Blair or somebody has bruises and it's never brought up, so i have to ask what were those all about?

*** Personal experience here, but the school this troper went to had an incident where a bullied girl shot herself in a bathroom INSIDE the school, so sneaking a gun into a school for suicidal purposes is sadly plausible. As for the lack of anyone doing anything when they actually SEE her with the gun, considering how badly she was bullied and how little anyone cared about her, it would make sense that people would either not think it’s real, or not expect her to do anything with it.

** The film makers were likely trying to steer the viewer into thinking there was another possessing spirit controlling her, instead of her being an actual suicide.

* Why is Blair so bad with technology/so stupid? Think about this for a second. She's a 17 year old girl in 2014 with a laptop in a middle class family. She's a millennial & yet she has such a bad handle on technology that she, for some reason, keeps seeding a torrent of an SNL episode, has to be told how to do things, keeps having to press the "send" button on the Facebook chat (& moves the mouse away & back & doesn't have the "press enter to send" box checked to pad the runtime even further than necessary), keeps manually highlighting text to replace it rather than hitting "command A" & then "delete", etc. I find this very hard to believe for someone in her situation.

* If Blair is so incompetent using technology to the point of barely knowing how to properly empty her recycling bin, how the hell does she know how to torrent SNL.

* If Blair is so incompetent using technology to the point of barely knowing how to properly empty her recycling bin, how the hell does she know how to torrent SNL?

** The way Skype works, you have a username and a nickname. The username is just what you type to log in; the nickname is what you're seen as to all friends. It's likely that Blaire and Laura added each other long ago, and eventually Blaire forgot what Laura's username was because her nickname was just "Laura" (or something like that) while her username was something like "billie" which has no immediate correlation to Laura without context. And when Laura's spirit took over, she presumably reverted her nickname back to her username to catch them off guard.

* Okay, just how in the f- did Blaire, Laura's ''best friend'', not know Laura's Skype username?! You can see pictures of them together on Facebook, so clearly they didn't just avoid each other on social media for some reason.

*** Personal experience here, but the school this troper went to had an incident where a bullied girl shot herself in a bathroom INSIDE the school, so sneaking a gun into a school for suicidal purposes is sadly plausible. As for the lack of anyone doing anything when they actually SEE her with the gun, considering how badly she was badly, it would make sense that people would either not think it’s real, or not expect her to do anything with it.

*** Personal experience here, but the school this troper went to had an incident where a bullied girl shot herself in a bathroom INSIDE the school, so sneaking a gun into a school for suicidal purposes is sadly plausible. As for the lack of anyone doing anything when they actually SEE her with the gun, still confused on that one.