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Here's why you should stop using Venmo, and start using Facebook Messenger for paying back your friends

Here's why you should stop using Venmo, and start using Facebook Messenger for paying back your friends

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There are a lot of cash-sharing services out there that are specifically designed to be used between friends and family, as a way to split the bill without ever exchanging paper money.

The most popular payment apps include Venmo, Google Wallet, Snapcash, and a handful of bank P2P services. These are a little different from ecommerce apps like PayPal, which are typically used for more goods-and-services types of transactions that take place between a seller and a buyer, rather than among friends. In reality, many of these payment apps can do both, but for our purposes, we'll focus on the former.

Venmo, a subsidiary of PayPal, has emerged as the most popular payment app - by a long shot - with reportedly $20 billion transferred between users in 2016. It's been called the "social media" of money exchange.

That said, as a person who has tried Venmo as well as other payment apps, I'm here to make the case for Facebook Payments. Hear me out:

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