Facebook bought WhatsApp for $16 billion, and one of co-founders of the popular messaging app Brian Acton who is now no longer part of WhatsApp has advise for you Facebook users. In a post on Twitter today, Acton told his followers to delete Facebook.
“It is time,” Acton wrote, adding the hashtag #deletefacebook. Acton, who is worth $6.5 billion, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. WhatsApp declined to comment.
It was unclear whether Acton’s feelings about Facebook extend to his own app. But last month, Acton invested $50 million into Signal, an independent alternative to WhatsApp.
It is time. #deletefacebook
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018
The tweet came after a hard five-day period for Facebook that has seen regulators swarm and its stock price drop following concerns over data privacy in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s misuse of user data.
