Comments by "Norma Mimosa" (@normamimosa5991) on "'Let's Try Answering My Question': Josh Hawley Grills Facebook Exec About Teen Safety Online" video.

  1. Conservative here: Let's get real. Instagram is not the cause of any depression or self-body shaming. The teens/tweens do that to themselves, the causes for their doing it to themselves, a topic for another thread. So what's the solution in the eyes of those who blame Instagram. Stop people with great in-shape bodies from posting pictures of themselves? Restrict Instagram for overweight individuals, so as not to shame overweight viewers? Encourage those with no self-esteem to post on instagram, lest anyone with great self-esteem send a viewer into self-loathing and depression? I do not have a perfect body. Most of us don't. I have never been the prettiest person in the room. Most of us haven't. I have never been the most successful person. Most of us have not. Seeing beautiful or successful women or men does not send me running to a "safe space," or into a dark room to sulk in a depression. I enjoy looking at beauty - men and women - human beauty, along with beautiful nature and aspects of life. We are DNA wired to admire and enjoy beauty. Politicians should be focusing on Facebook's/Instagram's censorship of business and political discussions, or on devious sexual postings, extremely serious problems for society today, not on how teens with no self-esteem react to Instagram. If politicians want to help teens, then focus on the breakdown of families and schools. Wow! Never thought I would be defending Facebook!
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