In case you are unaware, the trailer for Selena Gomez’s Netflix TV series, 13 Reasons Why, which is based on a book of the same name by Jay Asher, dropped last week. I’ve watched it twice already.

I read Thirteen Reasons Why last year and it was one of my favorite books. The novel tells the story of Clay, a high school boy who receives a package in the mail from Hannah Baker, a classmate who committed suicide a week prior. Inside the package are thirteen cassette tapes, in which Hannah relays the events that led her to taking her own life and each individual’s role in the tragedy. Every person must listen to the tapes from beginning to end, or the tapes go to the police and all involved face severe consequences. But what is it Hannah wants people to know?

Apparently, Selena Gomez read Thirteen Reasons Why and thought the message behind the book was important enough to be shared in movie format. Though I have not been impressed with her music as of late, I must agree with her on this.

Though everyone should watch Thirteen Reasons Why when it airs on Netflix March 31^st, I highly recommend teenagers specifically watch it. In the age of social media, childhood and adolescence have evolved—but so has bullying. Instead of resorting to tripping kids in the hallway and stealing lunch money, bullies are turning to Instagram and Facebook to terrorize their victims. One push of a button and a stupid mistake is plastered all over the World Wide Web. Soon, your friends, teachers, parents, future employers, and someday even your children will see what you did that one moment when you were sixteen.

What kids—and even some older people—do not understand is that what might not be a big deal to you, is a big deal to someone else. In Thirteen Reasons Why, Hannah was bullied because one small mistake blew up in her face. Her classmates targeted her over this perceived slight and people turned against her. The worst part of it was there were kids who knew the behavior was wrong but did not say or do anything to stop it.

Our adolescence culture is heavily based on the ideas of “snitch” and “tattletale.” If you see something happening, or something is happening to you, and you run to an adult for help, your peers label you a “snitch.” Suddenly, you are ostracized and targeted even more than the kids who stayed silent. Then, parents and teachers wonder why no one came forward about the abuse.

On a side note, I blame this “snitch culture” on adults in the first place. I don’t know about everyone, but I know from my own experiences growing up, parents often belittled children who were “tattletales.” Those were the kids who saw their sibling do something wrong and told their parents. What kind of message does that send to a child later in life? That if they see something wrong, they need to keep quiet about it?

Adults do come into the situation later in Thirteen Reasons Why. One adult in particular makes things worse.

Besides my little rant, the importance behind Hannah’s story in Thirteen Reasons Why remains the same. I don’t know how true to the original novel Selena Gomez’s show will be, so I highly recommend everyone read the book, too.

Simply put, Thirteen Reasons Why has something in it that everyone can take away.