The co-founder of WhatsApp believes that "the time has come" to delete Facebook

Brian Acton, one of the co-founders of WhatsApp, believes that the time has come to delete himself from Facebook. This is what he has seen on social networks, expressing his support for the #DeleteFacebook campaign that emerged to encourage users of the social network to eliminate their accounts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Acton and Jan Koum, the two co-founders of WhatsApp, sold their application to Facebook itself for 19 billion dollars in 2014. However, that does not seem to have prevented him from joining the criticism of the company that made him a billionaire, and according to Forbes, he has raised his fortune to 5,500 million dollars. 

Acton's message on Twitter has been quite simple and short, and the only thing he has put is "It is time", followed by the campaign hashtag. Come on, he thinks it's time to leave Facebook.

This has not been the only movement of the WhatsApp co-founder against Facebook or its old application. In fact, last month Acton invested 50 million dollars in Signal, one of the private messaging applications that tries to gain a foothold competing with WhatsApp by taking care of the privacy of users.

After his tweet, Brian Acton has not made any other statement about it or talked to any media about the matter. But it has served to help give visibility to the #DeleteFacebook movement, which calls to leave the largest social network in the world.

There have always been people against Facebook, especially for their multiple problems with the privacy of users that includes fines for crossing their data with those of WhatsApp. But after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, users have started using this hashtag to announce on Twitter that they are going to delete their accounts.

The hashtag is also being used to centralize the conversation and disseminate everything related to the issue of Cambridge Analytica, and seeing the multiple languages ​​that are being tweeted in it can give us an idea of ​​its international reach. We will have to see how far this movement ends up and to what extent it manages to do some damage to Facebook.