Saying Facebook has Power compared to Google?

I suppose if you want to give the term Power a value equal to grains of sand. Sure. But comparing Facebook “Power” to Google “Power” is just hype. An overwhelming amount of it. You can read about this comparison here.

Facebook consists of people who are chatting with each other, mostly just generic conversations about a movie they went to, what they cooked for dinner, or that they like pie. Google on the other hand, connects people to real usable information. I’ll put it another way. If I go to Facebook, I’ll get watercooler talk which is entertaining, but won’t save my life. If I go to Google, I’ll get a drink of water, which will. They both have their value, and comparing the two is just silly.

As soon as I can pull up Scholarly documents from Facebook, I’ll give Facebook credit for having Power. But perhaps I am merging “Authority” with “Power” which in that case, Google still wins since the comparison of the two based on traffic levels alone is again just silly. This comparison they create is the most simplistic example of Quantity over Quality.

Like “Full Employment” of a population is meaningless if it isn’t truly productive, they’ve single-handedly destroyed the meaning of “Power” in any strategic sense of business.

Unless Facebook changes its tune, it will go the same way that MySpace and Yahoo and AOL went… Boom to relative obscurity. Sure, they have a great customer base, more than any property I have. I just think that Facebook has no real Power. Although I do still find it astonishing that people give up so much information about themselves in a world that demands privacy and protection from oversight by Big Brother, people haven’t quite figured out that Little Sister has been watching everything you do… and selling you goods and services based on that observation. Big Brother isn’t in your house as much as you think.