Elon Musk Joins #DeleteFacebook Movement, Erases Tesla and SpaceX Pages

Is #DeleteFacebook the new “Ice Bucket Challenge”? If so, Elon Musk is up to the task.

The Tesla and SpaceX head honcho responded to WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton’s call to delete Facebook on Friday, tweeting “what’s Facebook?” A follower soon tweeted to Musk, challenging him to delete his rocket company’s Facebook page to prove he’s “the man.” Musk obliged, saying, “I didn’t realize there was one. Will do.”

Maybe not when it comes to meeting Tesla delivery times, but when it comes to social media, Musk is clearly a man of his word; SpaceX’s Facebook page vanished soon afterward on Friday morning.

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I didn’t realize there was one. Will do.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

Things kept going from there. Reporter Bryson Masse tweeted a picture of Tesla’s Facebook page to Musk, asking “this should be deleted too right?” Musk agreed, saying it “looks lame anyway.”

Definitely. Looks lame anyway.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

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Combined, the Tesla and SpaceX pages boasted about 5 million followers. Dropping Instagram — which is owned by Facebook — is a bridge too far for Musk, however.

“Instagram’s probably ok imo, so long as it stays fairly independent,” tweeted Musk. “I don’t use FB & never have, so don’t think I’m some kind of martyr or my companies are taking a huge blow. Also, we don’t advertise or pay for endorsements, so … don’t care.”

Of course, Musk would have one less spot to share clips of his nifty flamethrower if he left Instagram — which he has not done at the time of this writing.

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In related news, Facebook continued its slide on Wall Street on Friday, dropping 1.5 percent to $162.50 a share in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data leak.

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Instead of buying an island and living the high life after the PayPal sell, Musk went to work on getting the world off its dependency on oil. He founded Tesla Motors (now Tesla Inc.) in 2003, taking over an old Toyota-General Motors manufacturing plant in the Bay Area. The slick electric cars can travel 250 miles without a charge and sell for upwards of $100,000. Its "mass" car, the Model 3, is due out in 2018.
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Space X

Perhaps the project most important to Musk is SpaceX. Founded in 2002, the rocket company has worked with NASA on several launches. SpaceX made history when it developed "recycled" rockets that are able to be launched, landed and reused. Even more ambitious, Musk wants to send manned missions to Mars within the next decade... and colonize the red planet.
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Hyperloop

Musk frequently travels back and forth between NorCal and SoCal, and he wants to do it quickly. Enter Hyperloop, where passengers will be put in pods and shot through tubes connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles at speeds of up to 760 miles per hour. Musk sketched the concept in 2013, and it's now being pursued by a group in L.A. full-time.
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SolarCity

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