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Late last night (or early this morning),  Amy Sample Ward reported that Causes notified 184,725 users that its MySpace app will be removed from MySpace as of today.  The email encouraged MySpace users of Causes to join the cause on Facebook.  

One wonders what the motivation was?   Amy’s post spoke about the implications for individuals and communities, raising the question – “In abandoning MySpace, is Causes abandoning nonprofit groups organizing online with poorer users and people of color?”  Justin Mass went as far as to say that the move was “social network redlining.”

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