Something about this reads like a viral ad for Venmo. It's as if it is trying to draw you in to the app to see what your friends are doing.
People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
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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.
Why is it important to put jokes there? I view a check as a pseudo-legal document. Do you slip jokes into the contracts you sign?
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"Cuba" is not declaring intent to violate the law, and investigating such a case seems like a poor use of law enforcement resources, since a) there are many legal transactions describable as "Cuba", and b) it depends on the violators being overt about their lawbreaking.
The payer could very well be referring to drinks at the Cuba Libre bar, or tickets for the Cuba Gooding Jr. movie/show.
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#74It boggles my mind that anyone would want to stream their payment history publicly.
Hmm, I think most people use it to pay friends back for brunch or drinks. It's not like you're streaming all your credit card purchases. It's kinda like checking in on Foursquare with friends... it's a public way to expose your social graph a bit. It may not be for you, but people love social media. To put it a different way: it's so successful because, despite there being lots of ways to pay back friends, none of th…
> It may not be for you, but people love social media
People also love heroin and alcohol and tobacco. People love lots of things that are terrible for them.
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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.
Sarah got punished twice there. First, being the one who had to make this unpleasant phone call, and then being the target of these notes.
I think calling people was probably part of her job.
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#76It 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.
I was one of the early adopters of Venmo. Here's my take on it: * Venmo launched the first out of all the systems you mentioned * Venmo was one of the few (maybe only) system that allows you to pay users who are not on their system. Say you need to pay Joe and you were a Venmo user but Joe wasn't. You could still "pay" them on venmo and they would get a text back saying if they signed up they would get the payment. N…
That makes sense, there really wasn't a good system beforehand for paying others.
My primary concern with Venmo holding the cash is that I'd much rather have my bank in charge of it than some other random entity - The fact that it's now Paypal-owned doesn't help either
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#77In this thread - "You can do X to make it private." In my view, that is not addressing the main issue with Venmo. Socializing financial transactions shouldn't have taken off from back of the napkin stage. It is simply unbelievable on 2 fronts: 1) Such an app exists and is doing fine 2) People simply do not care about their privacy. I am utterly speechless. Who in the right mind opens up Venmo to just browse what kind…
"hook them while they're young". With FB/Snap/(whatever teenagers are using these days as closing upon 50 i seem to just don't know :) being probably the gateway drugs.
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#78Wow. Why the hell would anyone use Venmo?
It is a cultural/generational thing. Millenials don't think twice about this. They are shocked that anyone would care. Non-millennials are shocked that anyone would share their financials publicly. We're all shocked at each other's behavior.
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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.
I’ll tell you one reason why, and maybe your curiosity will lead you down further rabbit holes. I use Venmo exclusively for sending money to girls from Tinder. If you look at my stream, you’ll see transactions sending money to tons of babes, often with suggestive comments. Other girls sometimes see this, and decide they too want in on the action. Pretty great what giving out some dollars on the internet can do for yo…
That's brilliant
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#80Is there a simple way to turn off the "feed" function?