I attended the pop culture series event "Sex, Gender, and Commodities on Facebook." The presentation illustrated the power and impact Facebook has on us, our relationships and our lives. Ceilan and Jeff described Facebook as an ideology that calls us to participate and become part of it. Social networking was a commodity that has turned into an important necessity in our lives. Facebook is a way for people to keep score and evaluate themselves against their friends and family; comparing their achievements, social life and possessions. It is built to be a blueprint for a simple, flattened, modified construction of one's self and identity. It allows you to share your life with others on the Internet by sharing the six essential elements: work and education, places lived, relationships, family, basic information and contact information. Facebook also provides its users with safety, security, and control. The social media site allows people to control how their Facebook friends portray them. Pictures, statuses, and posts on your friends' walls determine how people perceive you. It also provides protection from seeing people's reactions in an objectified way. Facebook protection creates a positive atmosphere for its users by only having a “Like” button. Users try to get likes on their posts. It also provides individuals with a boost in self-esteem and social approval based on the amount of likes received on their posts, photos and statuses. “Selfies” have also become a new phenomenon among all social media sites. Many people hate the constant explosion of "selfies". They were negatively labeled among all Facebook users; but people keep posting them. The amount of "selfies" uploaded by a user can label the individual representation of women compared to the opposite sex. Our society and the media encourage girls and young women to present themselves as sexually desirable beings by dressing and using facial expressions in a sexual manner to attract the attention of men. Many of my friends sexually objectify themselves in their Facebook "selfies." The images may consist of them standing or lying in a sexual position that has the breasts or buttocks, or a combination of the two, as the focal point of the image. Additionally, they paint their faces with copious amounts of makeup and take "selfies" with sexual facial expressions such as biting their lips or with an orgasmic look. Not all "selfies" are of this sexualized nature, but many teenage girls are starting to take part in these types of images and are suffering from the negative consequences of their self-representation in these images..