Facebook has launched yet another service to help those in need, this time for military members, veterans and families suffering from the mental and emotional effects of war.

A May 9 post to the U.S. Military's Facebook page by Blue Star Families, a nonprofit organization providing support for military families, announced the new feature, which is being offered through Facebook in partnership with Blue Star Families and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

According to the post, Blue Star Families worked with Facebook engineers to develop this customized tool, which will allow friends and loved ones to report suicidal content posted by military family or service members and, in return, receive military-related counseling information.

The post continues thus:

Today, we along with Facebook and the Department of Veterans Affairs are proud to announce that the Facebook military crisis content is live. As a result, friends and families with concerns about veterans, active duty service members and military family members will receive specific information about crisis services for our nation’s military including The Veterans Crisis Line. The Veterans Crisis line connects veterans in crisis and their families and friends with qualified, caring Department of Veterans Affairs responders via phone, online chat or text messaging.

As MSNBC points out, the social network had previously launched a program late last year to help prevent suicide by enabling users to connect directly with National Suicide Prevention Lifeline crisis counselors through Facebook's chat feature.

However, this new service has been designed specifically for the needs of military members and their families; according to Blue Star Families' latest Military Lifestyle Survey, 10 percent of military family members have considered suicide, while 9 percent of military service members have done the same.

Recently, on May 1, Facebook launched a different tool, which allows users in the U.S. and the U.K. to report their organ donor status and officially sign up with an appropriate organ donor registry in their area. A day after Facebook rolled out the new feature, 6,000 people had enrolled through 22 state registries. In addition, more than 100,000 had shared their organ donor status on the site.

You can learn more about these new Facebook tools for military members and families by tuning in to a live, interactive event airing on May 10 at 3 p.m. EST on Facebook's DC Talks page. RSVP for the event here.

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• Spotify

  With the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Spotify" target="_hplink">Spotify</a> timeline app, music fans can add music to their timeline as they listen, and discover new songs from friends along the way.

• Pinterest

  Are you crazy about pinning? Bring your pins, repins and boards to your timeline. Since launching their timeline app, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pinterest" target="_hplink">Pinterest</a> saw the number of people visiting the site from Facebook increase by more than 60 percent. To get started, go to Pinterest.com, sign in with Facebook, and add Pinterest to your timeline.

• Foodspotting

  With the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Foodspotting" target="_hplink">Foodspotting</a> timeline app, foodies can snap photos of the food they spot, love, try, and want. Since launching its timeline app in January, Foodspotting has multiplied its monthly active user base by two.

• Foursquare

  People can now add their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/foursquare" target="_hplink">Foursquare</a> check-ins to their timelines and maps, share their badges and see the top places they've checked into.

• VEVO

  Login to Vevo.com with Facebook, or the Vevo mobile app, to get music video recommendations and add the videos you watch to your timeline. Since launching their timeline app, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/VEVO" target="_hplink">VEVO</a> has seen a 45 percent increase in traffic from Facebook's mobile app to their own, compared to just a few months ago.

• RootMusic

  If your favorite bands have a Band Page on Facebook (and they probably do, as more than half a million musicians have one), you can mark your favorite songs, as well as the concerts you plan on attending and would like to attend, to fill out the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rootmusic" target="_hplink">RootMusic</a> app on your timeline.

• Goodreads

  Bring the book club to your timeline. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Goodreads" target="_hplink">Goodreads</a> gives you an easy way to add the books you're reading, or want to read, to your timeline, and discover what friends are reading as well. Over time, the Goodreads app will surface the number of books you've read in a certain period of time and your top authors. Since launching the timeline app, Goodreads has grown its audience by 90 percent.

• Viddy

  <a href="http://viddy.com/" target="_hplink">Viddy</a>, the mobile app for creating quick videos and adding filters, now lets people add clips to their timelines as they shoot. Now when people film videos from a vacation or everyday life, they can share them to Facebook and collect their clips on the Viddy timeline app. Since launching their timeline app just a few weeks ago, Viddy went from 100,000 monthly uniques to more than 790,000. They are averaging 50,000 sign-ups per day and are among the most popular apps in the Apple App Store.

• Turntable

  DJs, wannabe DJs and music lovers can add the songs they've "awesome'd" directly to their timeline with the <a href="http://turntable.fm/" target="_hplink">Turntable</a> app.

• Fab.com

  If you love shopping, you can bring <a href="https://www.facebook.com/fab.com" target="_hplink">Fab.com</a> to your timeline to share your favorite purchases. Fifty percent of Fab's visits come from Facebook.

• Endomondo

  Need more encouragement to finish that run, or looking for more routes to hike? Turn your phone into your personal trainer. The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/endomondo" target="_hplink">Endomondo</a> app on your phone to track your workouts, and lets you login with Facebook to add your activity to your timeline.

• TripAdvisor

  With <a href="http://www.tripadvisor.com/" target="_hplink">TripAdvsior</a>, travelers can build out a map of the places they've been and want to go and pin cities along the way to their timeline. Over time, they can see data on their travels, such as the percentage of the world seen, and total distance traveled.

• Pose

  For the fashionistas out there, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/connect/uiserver.php?app_id=164118886949520&method=permissions.request&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.facebook.com%2Fpose-app%2F?ref%3Dts&response_type=none&display=page&perms=offline_access%2Cemail%2Cpublish_stream%2Cpublish_actions%2Cuser_photos&auth_referral=1" target="_hplink">Pose</a> makes it possible to bring your favorite outfits (whether you're wearing them or not) to your timeline. Since launching the timeline app, Pose has seen daily sign-ups increase by five times. Celebs like Rachel Zoe are <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150644319103553&set=a.10150509371338553.372053.19292868552&type=3&theater" target="_hplink">adding their outfits to timeline</a> with the app.

• Sneakpeeq

  Last month the e-commerce site <a href="https://www.facebook.com/connect/uiserver.php?app_id=230486256138&method=permissions.request&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.facebook.com%2Fsneakpeeq%2F?ref%3Dts&response_type=none&display=page&perms=email%2Cpublish_actions&auth_referral=1" target="_hplink">Sneakpeeq</a> raised $2.7 million for its simple yet innovative approach to making online shopping feel like it does in the real world. You can add Sneakpeeq to your timeline and share the artists, designers, products, and sales you discover with your friends.

• The Onion

  Everyone's favorite satirical news source, <a href="http://www.theonion.com/" target="_hplink">The Onion</a>, recently launched a timeline app so people can add the funny stories they read (such as "Study Finds Newborn Infants Can Tell If Parents Are Losers") and the videos they watch, to their timeline.

• Fandango

  The <a href="http://www.fandango.com/" target="_hplink">Fandango</a> app lets you add the movies you want to see to your timeline, as well as the clips you watch and movies you rate. Now that Fandango can be on your timeline, you have another way to express your love of "The Hunger Games."

• Artfinder

  The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/connect/uiserver.php?app_id=172689716102069&method=permissions.request&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.facebook.com%2Fartfinder%2F?ref%3Dts&response_type=none&display=page&perms=email%2Cpublish_actions&auth_referral=1" target="_hplink">Artfinder</a> app lets you snap photos of artwork from your phone and begin curating your own masterpiece on your timeline. Since Artfinder launched a timeline app, people have spent 60 percent more time with the service.

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