After receiving 19 billion of them .. The founder of "Watsab" asks everyone to delete "Facebook"

Despite the act that made him billionaire, Brian Acton, one of the founders and users of Facebook, called for the removal of the application and the shutdown of his use, five years after the sale of Watsab to social networking giants for $ 19 billion. As a speaker at Computer Science 181, a classroom focused on the social impact and ethical responsibilities of technology companies, Acton, 47, a graduate of Stanford University, spoke of his landmark decision to sell Watasab to Facebook in 2014, reported Sky News.

After the sale, Acton and co-founder Jean-Com continued to "oversee" Watasab's work under the auspices of Facebook. Regarding Facebook, Acton said he and Jancom were fed up with thinking about continuing what they were doing before, but putting in place a way to diversify their income. Acton wanted to continue imposing a small fee on users of the Wattasab application, just as the company had done in its infancy as part of its vision of offering a physical alternative to Facebook ads analyzing data from users and proposing them to advertisers. Acton and Gencom hoped that their goal would be achieved without compromising the privacy and security of users, unlike Facebook, which encouraged users to remove the application.

"Watsab's vision was: we will give you one year of service for a dollar.This is not an unusual profit and if you have 1 billion users … you will get a billion of dollars of revenue every year, "said Acton. Billions of dollars. "But what BuzzFeed quoted about Acton's intervention in Computer Science 181 did not discuss in detail the decision-making process or the pressure from Google and Facebook to stop Wattab's revenue plan.

A spokesman for Watsab declined to comment on Acton's remarks and instead alerted Buzzaid News on a blog published by the company when it removed the $ 1 fee in 2016. The change in ownership of Watsab led Acton and Jancom to give up the decision to become shareholders and Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook. But Acton left in November 2017 after more than three years in the company after tensions on the display of ads on the messaging platform, to which he and Jan Kom were strongly opposed. Although Jean-Com announced that he would leave Facebook in April, reports that he disagreed with the company's plans to invest in Wattab and its approach to user data and privacy.