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Genius or incredibly stupid? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/facepalm@lemmy.world

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

publicly announcing transactions you've made with people is the worst feature I've seen on a payment app. Fucking insane.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

No way airing your financial data for everyone to see could possibly backfire.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 months ago

"Haha, for drugs!"

What do you mean I'm suspected of selling drugs?!

[–] kenopsik@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The whole social aspect of Venmo is one of the stupidest things to have ever been created. I use Venmo because it's the most widely used platform, but all of my transactions are private.

Do people even scroll through the public feed of their friends? Why does anyone care that their friend paid another friend (who they likely don't even know) $10 for a burger and fries? So fucking dumb.

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm always surprised by how many people buy eggplants with their friends.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It's weird you mention that, my girlfriend keeps getting eggplants bought for her on her Venmo and it's kind of cool and all, but she doesn't even use the money for veggies, lol.

[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

I use venmo only sparingly, but whenever I do I take a peek at that page, and see mostly old college friends I no longer talk to paying people I dont know for pizza or rent or whatever. It always feels creepy.

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

The swedish version of this is called swish. I once got my CC skimmed and someone was buying stuff in Tokyo. Loss prevention called me and asked me if I was in Tokyo. I said no, and he blocked my card and started going through the latest transactions.

-So, did you buy xxx at yyy? -No. -How about xxx at yyy? -Nope. -Ok, I have a transaction that says "hookers and blow" -Yup, that one is mine. -...Ok

[–] hahattpro@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

So that dude just send money to random popular people ?

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I recently made a Venmo account. I guess I'm just old but the public transactions thing is so weird to me. Feels like the newer generations are being tricked into giving up their privacy.

[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you haven't done so already, you can make transactions private by default.

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yep, already did. It was the first thing I did after seeing my friend's whole transaction history.

[–] MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

How much total did you spend on your fame?

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Stupid. so damn stupid. But students will be students.