The Facebook Commercial Is All Kinds of Wrong

I am trying to wrap my head around Facebooks first commercial. It was created to celebrate the social media platforms 1 billion active monthly users and my takeaway is that Facebook is an empty chair.

Clint Eastwood would be pleased.

Actually, Eastwood knows something about good advertising. He was the voice behind Chrysler's "Its Halftime in America" Super Bowl spot that was so stirring people thought it was a political ad. It wasnt, but it effectively drove home the message and, until Eastwood talked to an empty chair at the Republican National Convention, it made Eastwood the coolest octogenarian on the planet.

Like that Eastwood ad, this Facebooks spot featu…
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