5. Conclusions, implications, and limitations
5.1. Discussion of the results This study represents a first step toward integrating tie strength and advertising literacy to investigate the effect of advertising type on communication effectiveness in the field of Internet advertising. Drawing on advertising theory and social capital perspectives, this study focuses on understanding how message format and advertising literacy influence consumers' attitude toward advertising message sharing via Facebook, and how tie strength moderates this relationship. The findings of this study are as follows: 1. Other things being equal, interactive advertising has greater communication effectiveness. Study 1 confirms that an advertising message with interactive format will receive a higher consumer attitude toward and higher message-sharing intention. This finding shows that an increase in entertaining features in advertising is beneficial in catching consumers' attention. In particular, using the Internet to deliver messages is normal in everyday life, which in turn puts consumers into information overload (Ho & Dempsey, 2010). The best way to develop better communication effectiveness is to create interactive advertisements, which can reduce consumers' disregard of Internet advertising.