A picture isn't always worth a thousand words. And Molly Lensing -- an exhausted mom attacked online by bullies after a stranger's photo of her went viral on social media -- would likely be one of the first to tell you why. A stranger snapped a photo of Molly and her then 2-month-old daughter in 2016 in a Colorado airport. In the picture, Molly was on her cell phone, and her baby girl, Anastasia, lay on a blanket on the floor.
The picture outraged folks on social media, and they made all kinds of assumptions about Molly as both a person and a mother. But when they reacted so harshly to the photo, they didn't stop to think about how it only captured a tiny snapshot of a much larger picture.
The stranger's photo soon went viral with the caption: "Albert Einstein said, 'I fear the day that technology will take on our humanity ... the world will be populated by a generation of idiots.'" People hurled insults at Molly, criticizing her for being more concerned with her cell phone than her own child.
Molly had no idea the picture had been taken. She certainly never gave permission. In fact, the photo didn't come to her attention until several months later, after it went viral. A few viewers identified Molly by name in the post, and she began receiving all kinds of nasty messages from strangers calling her a terrible parent.
The devoted mother of three was completely heartbroken. She couldn't believe it. Here thousands of strangers were judging and condemning Molly based on a picture. No one even knew the whole story! And even though friends and family defended her as a mother online, the attacks wounded her deeply.
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