http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/11/selfies_on_instagram_and_facebook_are_tiny_bursts_of_girl_pride.html

The most vapid and useless new product of our new technology era, selfies, which is mass-marketed validation farming, are supposedly good for little girls' self-esteem.

The writer misses the point of true self-esteem. It's called SELF-esteem, as in it's derived from the self. Getting "likes" on your bathroom mirror, duck-face, bikini selfie isn't going to give you confidence & reassurance when you're faced with life's true struggles and you have no one to rely on (or trust) other than yourself.

But hey, let's feed young women more easy-to-digest bullshit that will only cover the surface of their problems without addressing the real underlying issue. TRP has come into existence because of breeding grounds like this.

Hilariously, the writer actually goes RP when writing a "sarcastic" passage in her article:

As with sex and hooking up, we assume there is only one motivation, and it’s a bad one. Girls are perennial victims and the culture always perpetuates this. All girls hook up because they know they’ll have to settle to get the intimacy they so desperately crave, even on someone else’s terms—not because they might just be drunk and want to make out with someone. All girls sext because they’re clueless and stupid—not because some have figured out how to leverage the tools of social media to play at sex without having it. And all girls post selfies because they’re desperate for others to fill the beauty-affirmation void left by a ruthless media. Wash, rinse, and repeat.

She's trying to use this as a bad example...but this is the only part that ends up making sense.