I hate the injection of personality into technological instances or common hiccups in modern Internet culture. My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up, Github buttons spam "Buy me a coffee!", Reddit says shit like, "Don't panic" when a webpage doesn't load. Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am so tired of being surrounded by these pale imitations of reality, like I need to be pacified with pseudo-emotions or meme culture every step of my day.
Oh yeah that is something I've found weird too. The weird part is how they turned it into this like mini social media where it reads like a facebook timeline if you read through your "friends" venmo histories, which was just pulled off facebook. Some people spend a lot of money on eating out and idk I just feel like it's almost a boasting thing people will do, to let everyone know how active they are? Probably really cynical of me, but people will write like a paragraph damn near about just sending someone $25 for dinner, and it's just something I could never consider doing. It's just weird to mix money and friendship in the way that it does it.
Honestly no, that's a great take. Every single app has been Facebook-ized. JoesFrackinJack will be properly credited in my manifesto and your name will echo through the halls of history.
Venmo is useful for several things, but the social media feed and tendency to add a transactional layer to relationships are pretty gross.
All my transactions are private and if it's a friend they get an emoji description. A business transaction gets a curt description of services rendered.