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The Facebook Commercial Is All Kinds of Wrong

Reader Sandeep Gill had an insightful critique of Facebook's new ad.

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This week, Facebook launched its first-ever commercial, which compared the social network to many things, among them chairs, doorbells and the universe. The common thread between these things, from what we gathered, is that they connect us. This week at Mashable reminded us of the connections we share and how quickly the ways we connect have changed thanks to the power of social media.

It's not every day you reach one billion active users, so perhaps we were too harsh on Facebook's new ad. It was fun to create our own spoof of the "chair" commercial, and also interesting to consider not just the number of users but the number of friendships populating Facebook: over 140 billion.

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