Details Leaked About Facebook's Friend to Friend Payment System

A Stanford computer science student has taken another step into what Facebook Messenger is up to these days. Andrew Aude successfully dug through the Messenger coding and enabled the payment code to get screenshots of the payment transactions. It appears that Facebook has future plans to monetize Messenger à la PayPal.

Aude played around with the feature and its code. He tells me you simply hit a button to initiate a payment, enter the amount you want to send, and send it. Facebook keeps the transaction private and doesn’t publish anything about it to the News Feed.

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