This feature is completely nuts. Completely. I can't believe people want any of their payment activity showing up in a public feed. Just, no.
People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
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Re: People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
#52It boggles my mind that anyone would want to stream their payment history publicly.
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That's especially true in this case. When a discussion has been repeated so many times, it becomes off topic on a site where the core value is intellectual curiosity.
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#53Who would use Venmo? When I see people buying drugs (see vicemo.com), I shake my head at the stupidity of it all. I have been asked multiple times by people who want to pay me, and I have flatted refused because of there approach to financial privacy. I try to get them to stop using it also, for their own privacy. Lucky we have other options -- I usually get them into cryptocurrency instead. Hey -- its also open by d…
99% of those "people buying drugs" aren't buying drugs. It reports anything with "drink", "speed", "grass", or "dope", and obvious jokes.
Right, but its just so stupid! People think they are being clever or funny. Its as clever as going into a police station and admitting your crimes. Cool joke!
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#54It 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.
A few clicks sounds like at least a few clicks - 1 too many.
Agreed, I simply believe it's still our responsibility to maintain the privacy settings if we disagree with the terrible defaults
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#55Earlier 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.
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.
Sounds like you never grew out of "stupid college shit". I feel sorry for Sarah and anyone else on the receiving end of this type of behavior.
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#56Venmo is owned by PayPal therefore it is garbage and should be avoided.
Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.
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#57Earlier 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.
Quite relevant: "Caution on Twitter urged as tourists barred from US."
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#58When 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-un…
I recently went through and unfollowed 100+ people because there's still no mass-unfollow feature :(
Re: People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
#59It 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/...
A friend in college got a fun letter from the Comptroller of the Currency after writing “A Night in Tehran” on a reimbursement for Iranian food in Chicago.
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