The co-founder of WhatsApp just told everyone to delete Facebook
In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $16 billion , making its co-founders — Jan Koum and Brian Acton — very wealthy men. Koum continues to lead the company, but Acton quit earlier this year to start his own foundation . And he isn’t done merely with WhatsApp — 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. Nor did Facebook and WhatsApp. 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. The tweet came after a bruising five-day period for... Continue reading… via The Verge - Tech Posts "http://ift.tt/2pscsMq"