Although Facebook Messenger’sentry into personal financeisn’t new , I ’ve never quite deal to think about it as a payment platform . It ’s more an inbox that aunty , uncles , and supporter from gamy school mess up up with messages when I have n’t post on Facebook in a while . But it ’s now becoming more and more clear-cut that Messenger will lief cover my money if I countenance it .
The Facebook Messenger team provided a sneak peep of its fresh “ Split Payments ” feature of speech in anews announcementon Friday . It ’s basically a way to organize and pay joint expense you have with friends , roommates , coworkers , or anyone you ’re break up bills with . interchangeable to apps likeSplitwise , Split Payments allows you to make a deal expense , divide the bill evenly , or change the donation that correspond to each person . You also have the pick to include or chuck out yourself from the expense .
Once all the entropy is in the app , you’re able to air out a request to the people who take to pay off you in Messenger , receive the payment throughFacebook Pay(the company ’s version of Venmo ) , and reassign it to your bank chronicle .
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“ If you ’ve fight with dividing up ( and getting paid back for ) group dinner , share household disbursal or even the monthly rip , it ’s about to get easier , ” the Facebook Messenger squad said in the news announcement .
The company did not put up many point on Split Payments . From the promotional image provided , it appears that it ’s designed to be used in Messenger mathematical group Old World chat . mortal - to - soul paymentsare already possiblethrough Facebook Pay on Messenger , but it ’s not clear if Split Payment lineament , such as splitting the bill as , will be available in these instances .
Not going to lie , Facebook ’s , or should I say , Meta ’s , cut through record onprivacy , data mining , and , well , everything elsedoesn’t exactly inspire me to give Messenger my cite batting order information . Plus , as I mentioned before , Messenger just is n’t positioned that way in my brain . Sure , it ’s super obvious it wants me to swear it with my money , but I have other apps for that . Safer ones with multi - factor authentication and groovy customer service .
Messenger will begin to test Split payment next week for users in the U.S. The feature will be offered liberal of charge . No information was provided on when the feature will roll out for everyone in the U.S. or whether it ’ll roll out internationally .
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