It’s time to make your Venmo transactions private

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It’s time to make your Venmo transactions private
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Money transfer apps are incredibly useful, which is why they’re so ubiquitous. But Venmo, one of the most popular of the bunch, has a problem: by adding a social element to our spending, the platform makes all transactions public by default. This means that all of the internet knows you’ve been ordering pizzaPeruvian food for breakfast at least twice a week. Or that you bought a statue of questionable taste from some person on Facebook Marketplace. Or something beyond what we can put to print.

More Venmo privacy tips Maybe you like the social element of Venmo and prefer to keep things between friends . That doesn’t mean you can’t still take care of your privacy. Make individual transactions private You should know that you can always make individual transactions private. This is easy to do but not very intuitive, so you might’ve missed it. After completing a payment, open the transfer on your timeline or profile.

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