Why Did Elon Musk Delete His Facebook Pages?

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/elon-musk-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-delete/556412/?single_page=true

by namank • 8 years ago

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smn1234• 8 years ago

the article is drawing attention to Musk's departure from Facebook with the failed Facebook satellite launch on a SpaceX rocket !?

IAmEveryone• 8 years ago

Surprisingly, this VICE article actually provides a better summary of the history between the two: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evqxgz/a-brief-hi...

I can't shake the feeling that the launch failure cannot have been the initial cause for this fallout. Rockets sometimes fail, and I doubt that anybody believes the launch was intentionally sabotaged.

If I had to guess, Zuckerberg is envious of Musk's charisma and popularity. It can't help that Zuckerberg is a one-hit wonder while Musk has four or five successes that each, individually, could put you in the history books. Plus, obviously, every one of Musk's ventures except PayPal is cooler and more beneficial for humanity than Facebook.

Musk seems to be very good at picking up on these insecurities, and to push exactly where it hurts. Witness his comment on their AI disagreement, and how artistically it combines feigned boredom and arrogant dismissal: "His understanding of the subject is limited."

scottlocklin• 8 years ago

Pretty sure Paypal is cooler and more beneficial for humanity than FB.

mankash666• 8 years ago

Cognitive dissonance much? Instagram must be OK because Musk loves it?

Havoc• 8 years ago

He's really good at cultivating a cowboy zero F given shoot from the hip and always wins image. While in reality all his moves seem to be quite calculated.

This public move of deleting them probably generated more PR than the actual pages in question...

dylanhassinger• 8 years ago

FB pages stopped being useful years ago

childintime• 8 years ago

Anyone taking bets for when the pages return? It's just a matter of time, right? That is unless Musk starts a competing social network of his own :) I'll toast to that.

Why Did Elon Musk Delete His Facebook Pages?

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