I would be surprised to hear of a buyout bid for Facebook from the church, but some sort of technology acquisition deal would not surprise me at all. The leader

I would be surprised to hear of a buyout bid for Facebook from the church, but some sort of technology acquisition deal would not surprise me at all. The leadership of the LDS church is definitely on the ball when it comes to taking advantage of new technology. It's not just genealogy either - there is an active direction from the leadership to embrace the internet, blogs, and social media. A close friend of mine wrote a blog entry on this very topic in July - http://teddios.blogspot.com/2008/07/church-and-intertubes.html http://teddios.blogspot.com/2008/07/church-and-intertubes.ht... I'm LDS myself - I studied Computer Science at BYU, and I worked in the massive underground data center and supercomputing facilities while I was there. The depth of technological sophistication and awareness that the church employs is pretty impressive.