10 Ways Facebook Will Rule Our Lives

21.05.2012
After all the attention, clamor, and expectations Facebook is now a publicly traded . With shares trading at a hundred times earnings, Facebook is under a lot of pressure to increase the profit that it brings in. In other words, now the fun begins.

How will Facebook try to change our lives as it attempts to live up to investor expectations? Of course we'll see more ads, but that's  just a small part of Facebook's plan. If it wants to maintain its inflated price-to-earnings ratio, Facebook will have to settle for nothing less than Internet domination.  

In the next few years we may see the company extend its reach further and further into our personal lives in an attempt to "rule the world" -- or, at least, our private lives -- and make money off the process.

Here are ten ways Facebook will -- and to some degree already does -- rule our lives.

Facebook already plays a huge role in our personal and professional relationships, and this role will only continue to grow. People have an extremely hard time because, well, all of their friends are on Facebook -- how else will they connect with those friends, share with them, and know what's going on in their lives? And these relationships aren't just an extension of the relationships we have in real life -- more relationships are being created on, and staying exclusively on, Facebook.