The purpose of this research was to
investigate the effect of psychological distance between an individual
and a Facebook page on advertising message persuasiveness.
Based on the premise that a News Feed page is
psychologically distant to Facebook users whereas a Timeline
page is psychologically proximal, this study empirically tested
the notion that advertising message types (high-versus low-level
construal messages) that are congruent with a user's psychological
distance to Facebook pages (News Feed vs. Timeline) increase
the possibility of consumers' positive evaluations of the
advertisement and brand.