'Mark Zuckerberg' Is Desperate for Friends in a WeChat Ad

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'Mark Zuckerberg' Is Desperate for Friends in a WeChat Ad
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In a South African ad for Chinese social networking giant WeChat, a guy named Mark who started a social network visits a therapist. The ad never explicitly states that the "Mark" in the ad is supposed to be Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (http://mashable.com/category/mark-zuckerberg/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), but the clues are all there, including the wavy brown hair and what look like Adidas flip-flops

"I invented the social network and **w my friends — they're unfriending me," the Mark in the WeChat ad tells his therapist

See also: Facebook Passes 1 Billion Monthly Mobile Users (http://mashable.com/2014/04/23/facebook-1-billion-mobile-users/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


The therapist suggests a cure: Using WeChat's "Friends Radar" function, which locates your nearby friends. Facebook just launched a similar feature last week called Nearby Friends (http://mashable.com/2014/04/17/facebook-nearby-friends/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/24/mark-zuckerberg-wechat-ad/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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