It boggles my mind that anyone would want to stream their payment history publicly.
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(s/Harward/world/g) and (s/4000/2B/g) and you'd get the recent Zuck's Congress testimony.
People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
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#22It takes a few clicks to make everything private. Either way, I deleted my account last week because Venmo is killing their website and forcing Android/iOS only. I'm not even sure why Venmo caught on, it is the worst option out of all the possible payment systems (fb, Google pay, sq cash...) since they don't deposit cash received into your bank account and rather hold it interest free.
Imo purely user experience and maybe first mover / network effects. I know it's the worst option yet it continues to be the go-to option because it's the most likely service that random friend A or B will have.
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#23It takes a few clicks to make everything private. Either way, I deleted my account last week because Venmo is killing their website and forcing Android/iOS only. I'm not even sure why Venmo caught on, it is the worst option out of all the possible payment systems (fb, Google pay, sq cash...) since they don't deposit cash received into your bank account and rather hold it interest free.
This!! Why why why do people even like Venmo? It is such a bad product and the basic premise of social payments is just totally nuts.
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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 a…
He was a kid, but lol, damn kids are honest. Yes all people are dumb fucks. That's like straight up impossible to challenge that claim too.
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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 a…
> downvoted likely because "Mark was a kid" well, it's often used as a lazy sort of character assassination. it's also (perhaps ironically) a good example of why "right to be forgotten" can make sense.
The 15-year apology tour and various dark patterns that Facebook employs certainly suggest that if "dumb fucks" was a youthful error Zuckerberg has done nothing to change. If he learned and course-corrected the company, then your criticism would be fair; that hasn't happened, so the comment is still relevant today.
I don't see these citations as "lazy character assassination"; rather, "this is who he is, he laid the cards bare more than a decade ago"
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#26Come from a country where people don't use Venmo, and was astounded to read: > Some users seem to forget that their transactions are public by default Well that's (expletive). Secure defaults anyone?
While it is weird, it's worth noting that the transaction information it shows just shows who paid who and an optional narrative. They don't show actual dollar amounts. That being said, you can always post privately. Not sure why people post 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 a…
> downvoted likely because "Mark was a kid" well, it's often used as a lazy sort of character assassination. it's also (perhaps ironically) a good example of why "right to be forgotten" can make sense.
Can't reply to TAForObvReasons directly due to thread limits but, you're right on - actually just about anyone in this game sits in the same boat. MZ was the only one that admitted it.
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#28Venmo is owned by PayPal therefore it is garbage and should be avoided.
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Especially when “the wrong word could get you in trouble”: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_571f8057e4b01a5ebde34b97/...
It is so ridiculous that the comment for a payment would be used against someone. Writing jokes in the 'for' line on a check is a time honored tradition when paying your friends money. I don't want to live in a world where I am not allowed to make jokes because it might get me a visit from the FBI.
Making jokes in private is fine. But publicly declaring an intent to violate the law is a joke that is going to get attention from law-enforcement unless they can be convinced it's a joke.
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Especially when “the wrong word could get you in trouble”: https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_571f8057e4b01a5ebde34b97/...
It is so ridiculous that the comment for a payment would be used against someone. Writing jokes in the 'for' line on a check is a time honored tradition when paying your friends money. I don't want to live in a world where I am not allowed to make jokes because it might get me a visit from the FBI.
I used to write vulgar stuff in the memo line like “hookers” or “blow”. Stupid college shit. One day my bank called me and said if I did it again they’d cancel my account. I asked the rep her name and promised to stop...
I wrote “fuck you sarah” for two years until I changed banks.