Facebook Shows Off Its Flexibility

Facebook just wants you to know: it's a friggin' Swiss Army knife.  Over the past few days, a flurry of posts on the company's official blog have highlighted ways in which the social network is offering interesting new features or playing important roles in people's lives.

We can start with a

Then there's a Google's press page, the daughter apparently wrote, "I have been looking for my biological mother for 20 years...and my mom found me on Facebook.  We were able to exchange pictures and talk.  It was the best day of my life, and I owe that to Facebook."

Finally, we have something connected to the whole mortgage mess and financial meltdown.  About an hour ago, Austin Sparks Cresswell told the