Over the weekend , New York Times technical school reporter Nick Biltonposted an articleabout how Facebook can use its abstruse integrating with other sites and apps ( through Facebook Connect , the Open Graph developer platform , and Like button ) to notice what ’s happening on the Internet before anyone else . “ Facebook is more tapped into the pulsation of people online than any company on the major planet , ” he wrote .
The newspaper headline on the clause was “ Disruptions : Facebook ’s Real - Life ‘ Spidey Sense . ' ” While this certainly makes , uh , sense , I ’m not indisputable it ’s the unspoilt superpower compare uncommitted . While Spidey Sense is focalize more narrowly on threats to our pet webslinger , Facebook ’s “ great power ” is that it recognize much everything that ’s go on on the Internet — reaching out more broadly , and further out in the future tense , than Spidey Sense .
What ’s more , Facebook ’s integrating with the Internet lets it affect the future it can see . Bilton writes :
Facebook can also employ its superpower to try out with who wins and who loses online . This was apparent on April 24 when Facebook started highlight a number of apps , including Socialcam and Viddy , both new picture - sharing service that had been growing modestly . Each had a few million exploiter . Just one week after Facebook start highlight these apps , Viddy and Socialcam had close to 20 million dynamic users .
Spidey - sense is n’t really comparable in that respectfulness , and does n’t have the widespread near - omniscience that Facebook has on the Internet . Would Professor X be a better comparison ? Someone else ?
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