WhatsApp co-founder, Brian Acton, has joined the growing revolution to get people to delete Facebook.
Acton created WhatsApp with Jan Koum in 2009 which they then sold to Facebook for $19billon in 2014.
And even though the social network has made him a billionaire, Acton is not holding back his thoughts on the recent scandal surrounding Mark Zuckerberg’s company.
In a tweet, posted on his Twitter page, Acton said: “It is time. #deletefacebook.”
He now joins thousands of Facebook users who are considering whether to end their love affair with the site.
This follows allegations that research firm Cambridge Analytica misused the data of 50 million Facebook.
Cambridge Analytica allegedly obtained data gathered through an app called this is your digital life. Hundreds of thousands of users were paid to take a personality test and agreed to academic use of the data.
But the app also allegedly collected their Facebook friends’ data, creating an unprecedented cache of private information.
A whistleblower claims Cambridge Analytica used personal data, taken without authorisation in 2014, to profile individual US voters and target them with political advertisements.
To make matters worse for the popular network its shares plummeted by more than six percent since the scandal was announced slashing over $30 billion from the company’s valuation.
If you want to deactivate your account here’s how to do it.
To deactivate your Facebook account, follow these steps:
• Click the account menu down arrow at the top right of any Facebook page in your web browser.
• Select ‘Settings’
• Choose ‘Security’ in the left column.
• Choose ‘Deactivate your account’, and then follow the steps to confirm your decision.
This option will remove you from Facebook but it won’t delete your account entirely meaning you can reinstate your profile at a later date.
To do this you need to follow this link below and tap the “Delete My Account” button.
DELETE YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT HERE
Before deleting your account, it may be worth downloading your information from Facebook.
To do this, just follow these simple steps:
• Click the account menu down arrow at the top right of any Facebook page in your web browser
• Tap ‘Download a copy of your Facebook data’ at the bottom of your General Account Settings
• Choose ‘Start My Archive’