Facebook co-founder launches social network Jumo for social good

Mashable reports: Today, users can start connecting with all their favorite social causes in one online sphere, as Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has launched his much-buzzed-about social network, Jumo.

Hughes, who left Facebook in 2007 to become the Obama campaign's director of online organizing, soft-launched Jumo last March.

At that time the site existed merely as a homepage featuring a rather intriguing survey box that asked the site visitor an array of questions from, "If you had a daughter tomorrow, which would you name her?" to "Would you say the world is getting better or worse?"

Upon answering these queries, you could also submit your e-mail address to get more information as it came.

The site is intended to bring together those interested in social change to expedite global do-gooding. The point is not to have the doing-good-at-Thanksgiving-time mentality (i.e. being galvanized by big events and holidays), but to have people be involved with their causes of choice year-round. And that's where Jumo comes in.

Jumo was designed to let users find, follow and support the causes important to them, and with 3,500 organizations on board at launch, would-be philanthropists should be able to find and follow something of interest upon joining. (For comparison's sake -- Apple's Ping had 2,000 artists two months out of the gate.)

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