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Re: Facebook Pay

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Post by hammyhavoc »

aembleton wrote: post #218
hammyhavoc wrote: post #91

Why would anybody want this versus existing alternatives? OK, the USP of sending money to your Facebook friends... well, if they're my friends, we've been sending money to each other for years when splitting bills etc. It's a solved problem.

I don't know. I went to the theatre last week with some friends. One of them bought the tickets and I didn't have her bank details. We organised everything over messenger. With this Facebook Pay, I could probably just have paid her from within messenger. Instead I had to open my bank app and have it generate a link, copy that and paste it into messenger. The end result is the same; and with the link it would go strai…

We've got PAYM in the UK, it works with just a mobile number: https://paym.co.uk/

Figured this kind of thing would be common globally considering how far behind the technological curve the UK tends to be.

Re: Facebook Pay

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Post by pimlottc »

ovao wrote: post #94
pimlottc wrote: post #80

Off topic, but I really hate this trend of using animate-in transitions for _every_ _single_ _section_ of the page. Why I do always have to scroll into a half a window's worth of blank background before the content appears with some cutesy slide-in animation? I could perhaps forgive it if it was just badly implemented lazy-loading images but it also does this for simple section titles and body text as well. It ends u…

In this case there’s no value added, no. That’s okay in some cases, but the purpose of this page is to communicate the value of Facebook Pay, and this doesn’t really help. And it’s badly done too: kinda janky on some components and easing is weirdly inconsistent. Visual stability is actually kinda underrated.

“Visual stability” is a good way to talk about it, thanks for the term. I think part of the issue is the unpredictability of not knowing where and when the next bit of text is going to appear :P

Re: Facebook Pay

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Post by pimlottc »

blackcadillacs wrote: post #100
pimlottc wrote: post #80

Off topic, but I really hate this trend of using animate-in transitions for _every_ _single_ _section_ of the page. Why I do always have to scroll into a half a window's worth of blank background before the content appears with some cutesy slide-in animation? I could perhaps forgive it if it was just badly implemented lazy-loading images but it also does this for simple section titles and body text as well. It ends u…

I agree and would even go as far as to say that I don't like tying dynamic effects to scroll position at all. Those Apple sites are "cool", but they're hard to parse. If I want to find some piece of info again, it's not easy. Really wish animations would go away for the most part. They make sites and tools take longer and force the user to pause between actions when they may not need to otherwise. If the animation co…

I do agree that animation, when used, should be a deliberate and thoughtful choice. Sometimes animations are helpful to show a connection between two things, illustrate change or show contrast. A designer should have always ask, what value does animation add here? How does it strengthen communication and understanding? Animation can be a great tool when appropriate but shouldn’t just be a mindless default.

Re: Facebook Pay

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Post by pimlottc »

kingcharles wrote: post #150
pimlottc wrote: post #80

Off topic, but I really hate this trend of using animate-in transitions for _every_ _single_ _section_ of the page. Why I do always have to scroll into a half a window's worth of blank background before the content appears with some cutesy slide-in animation? I could perhaps forgive it if it was just badly implemented lazy-loading images but it also does this for simple section titles and body text as well. It ends u…

This shit has a name these days.. it's called "scrollytelling".

Ah, thanks, I had not heard this term before!

I do think it has its place for some things but it’s just very badly done here for no real purpose.

Re: Facebook Pay

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Post by jmrm »

It's surprise me how in the US and other countries there isn't any movement like Bizum in Spain, which you can pay in stores and give or receive money with other people only interchanging a phone number linked with a bank account.

That service is maintained with practically all banks in the country, valid to use with any other person who also have an account, doesn't have any transaction or a monthly/periodical fee, can't roll back payments easily if you screw up, and some other advantages.

Re: Facebook Pay

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Post by igetspam »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #15

The small print is scary, at least compared to a service like PayPal. There's absolutely no consumer protection unless you're actually buying something from Facebook themselves, and for any kind of returns or refunds the advice given is "contact your bank". Yikes.

When something wants to be involved in financial transactions and it can be described as "scary" compared to PayPal, you've engineered a problem. PayPal has a history of being customer hostile and withholding funds without notice. I don't plan to read the FB TOS because I have a hard block in place for them but that's a pretty damning statement.

Re: Facebook Pay

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Post by monkeybutton »

rndphs wrote: post #47
rootusrootus wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Safe to assume Facebook is going to milk this data for all it's worth. I'm no Facebook fan, but let's be honest. Your bank, credit card company, and merchants are all doing exactly the same thing. Perhaps the bank is regulated tightly enough that it isn't quite as bad, but the others definitely are.

Yeah but Facebook is primarily an advertising company, and one of the biggest advertising companies at that. They can much better leverage this data and milk it to a much greater extent. People aren't going to your bank or credit card company in order to buy ads targetting you.

They go through data brokers like Acxiom.

Re: Facebook Pay

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Post by InCityDreams »

CTDOCodebases wrote: post #167
sniperjzp wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What if someone don't use Messenger? Venmo/Paypal are still the most popular options in my circles, largely because they are not tied to any specific platform.

It says it works across WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook. What are the chances of someone having none of those?

I'm a 100%, and so's my wife.
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