WhatsApp Co-Founder urges users to delete Facebook

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Brian Acton is one of the great minds behind what we know as WhatsApp today. He along with Jan Koum founded the company in 2009 and later it sold out to Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion.

Now the Co-Founder Brian Acton has made some shocking comment about Facebook. Acton, in an interaction with students at Standford University, criticized Facebook for its alleged involvement in selling users’ data and asked students not to use Facebook.

“We give them the power. That’s the bad part. We buy their products. We sign up for these websites. Delete Facebook, right?” Acton said


The Co-Founder had a disagreement with the Facebook CEO regarding monetization in WhatsApp and that led to him leaving the company. Acton was against showing ads inside WhatsApp, he believed they could find a better alternative to monetize the app. As per him, ads inside Facebook means weakening of encryption which ultimately causes damage to the users’ privacy.

Acton also made a shocking revelation. The Co-Founder wasn’t very keen on selling WhatsApp to Facebook, in fact, whether to move ahead with Facebook or not wasn’t up to him to decide. “I had 50 employees, and I had to think about them and the money they would make from this sale. I had to think about our investors and I had to think about my minority stake. I didn’t have the full clout to say no if I wanted to,” Acton said.

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HiPosted:

I hate Facebook. I really do. All they care about is money.

ZemaPosted:

Ive never used whatsapp so for them to say this now im def never going to use them i dont even use fb like that much neither snapchat and twitter is the way to go :D

JasonPosted:

I'll keep using Facebook, the market on there is solid for me, helps me sell a lot of things locally.

XboxPosted:

Maze So at the end of the day, money is more important than making the right choice. Classic businessman. Glad he has waited to get all his money before doing this.


Lmfao I was thinking the same shit. But as for me I don't really use any SM.

AnimePosted:

Either way I will still use Facebook.

OGTrey079Posted:

People gotta stop playin about privacy you're on the internet how much privacy you think you truly have..

XeCookiePosted:

The sad part is young teens (majority of facebook users) are gonna disregard this as some random guy talking crap about fb.

lolohnoeszszPosted:

Of course Facebook doesn't care about your privacy they never have.

MazePosted:

So at the end of the day, money is more important than making the right choice. Classic businessman. Glad he has waited to get all his money before doing this.