"Just Venmo me." These are my new three favorite words. What's Venmo you may ask? Venmo is an app you can download onto your smartphone that allows you to pay anyone instantly. You securely link up your bank account, and voila! You can pay your friend back for buying your dinner last night when you said you "forgot your wallet." It's incredibly easy, and I love it. No more writing checks to pay your roommate for utilities, or giving the waiter four different cards to split the bill at dinner. Venmo fixes those annoying little problems.
But how is Venmo setting itself apart from being just a service that helps you pay someone? The people at Venmo are making the app SOCIAL. When you pay someone, you get to write a memo for what you paid them for. There's a timeline on the app with a feed filled with what your friends are paying your other friends for (transaction amount not included). You can comment on these or even like them. You could say your paying your roommate for your portion of the water bill, or you could also say that you're paying her for Nickelback tickets (which is hilarious to me...).
I find myself scrolling through my Venmo newsfeed almost every day even if I'm not using it to pay anyone because people are funny. Not only is it a really great, easy to use, safe and secure service, but it's also slowly becoming a hilarious social network in the meantime. Kudos to Venmo!
This is such an interesting idea. It really proves that anything can be "social" now-a-days!
ReplyDeleteThis seems really cool. I know for me personally, it is such a hassle trying to figure out bills every month with my roommate and who has to write a check to who. I think as long as this app can prove it truly is secure (in light of all the recent security breaches) then this will be huge for rushed millenials who don't want to take time to stop at the bank or write a check.
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