Cornerstone Community Church, San Jose Ca

It's a car commercial, but in my mind it's really a commercial about friends. A young woman is sitting at her computer telling us about an article she read -- an article she partly read -- about how few friends people have as they get older. Assuming her older parents probably don't have many friends, she gets her parents signed up on Facebook so they can make some friends. Now, she says, her parents have 19 friends, which she then mouths, is "so sad." Why is that so sad? Because she has over 600 Facebook friends -- this is "living," she tells us. And the irony of the commercial is this -- while she's sitting by herself at her computer looking at a picture of a puppy someone has posted, her older parents are out with a bunch of their friends mountain-biking. So who is "so sad" -- the girl with over 600 Facebook friends or her parents who are actually doing something with a handful of their real friends?