Facebook is remarkably talented at turning great products into absolute trash, bottom of the barrel stuff.
Sure but he’s also now just in the world of “so much money I’m having trouble spending it.”
But don’t feel too sorry for him, as he has already sold around $8 billion worth of his Facebook stock since 2015, helping him amass a fortune of over $10 billion, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index.
“I’m taking some time off to do things I enjoy outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches.”
While I fully support his decision to leave, I doubt the $1bn in Facebook shares was a massive concern. It took him 4 years to leave after the acquisition.
Willingly condemning himself to the wretched life of a niche luxury car enthusiast. So brave.
Jk, kind of-- His decision does actually seem principled and honorable, but this context is germane.
And used some of the money he did get to start Signal
“Koum’s co-founder Brian Acton also recently left Facebook, and last month joined the campaign to delete the social network in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/deletefacebook-or-not-deletefacebook-not-question
Obligatory: use Signal
All the reasons why Signal is better than WhatsApp and iMessage
Came here to say the same. Use Signal.
Literally no one I know uses signal, am I supposed to message myself?
[Real] Friends don’t let friends use WhatsApp.
;)
Just get better friends. It’s that easy.
/s
You can thank Facebook / Meta for that. As a FB product it’s one of those things I try to touch as little as possible outside of when I need to talk to someone through it.
I don’t know your life of course, so maybe this won’t work for you. But I had a similar hangup. So I figured who it was really important to keep in contact with, made sure I had a way to do so (phone numbers, usually). Then deleted my account.
Everyone has voice, sms, and e-mail. If they can’t contact me by one of those it’s their problem.
enshitification
