People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
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People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
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Re: People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
#2It boggles my mind that anyone would want to stream their payment history publicly.
Re: People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
#3It boggles my mind that anyone would want to stream their payment history publicly.
I agree. This makes me feel old now, and I'm in my early 30s. My wife has access to all my financial information, but I can't imagine sharing it publicly!
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#4It boggles my mind that anyone would want to stream their payment history publicly.
Especially when “the wrong word could get you in trouble”:
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_571f8057e4b01a5ebde34b97/...
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#5It boggles my mind that anyone would want to stream their payment history publicly.
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Re: People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
#6Nothing in the article about "cheating spouses."
Re: People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
#7It boggles my mind that anyone would want to stream their payment history publicly.
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In Facebook’s early days, everything you put on the site was shared with your friends. So it was not “private, personal, info” but rather the opposite — information that users wanted to publicize widely. I have never put anything on Facebook that I care whether Mark Zuckerberg reads or not. It would be weird and creepy, for sure, if he was looking at pictures of my baby, but I willingly shared those with over a thousand people so am happy to share with one more.
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#8Nothing in the article about "cheating spouses."
> But Venmo users have found it’s also an extremely effective tool for keeping tabs on friends, partners and exes, researching crushes, and in some cases, uncovering infidelity.
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#9It boggles my mind that anyone would want to stream their payment history publicly.
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This is being downvoted likely because "Mark was a kid", but in many ways he was right. A priori, there is no reason to trust any website or company on the internet.
The fact that people trust Google with intimate search queries, or trust Facebook with their personal photos and info, or trust Apple with their messages, or trust a website like Amazon in shopping is really amazing. They are all private companies that are, strictly speaking, beholden only to their shareholders. And for whatever reason, people either forget that or erroneously believe there is legislation governing their behavior.
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#10When I first created a Venmo account, I was shocked to see users' payments flowing through my feed and immediately found a way to make my payments private.
But I could never find a way to effectively unlink the social media account (FB) that I had used to find my first friend/payee. I think I unlinked the account, but I still see payments from all the people that Venmo made me follow as a result of linking the now-unlinked FB account.
I haven't used the app in a long time, and I wonder if this mass-unfollow feature has been added. I know they think that people open Venmo to check their feed, but some people find the public feed creepy, and it makes me use the app less in favor of alternatives.