Here's a solution: Write a check, take a real long time to write check. Your Venmo friends will get the hint eventually. While you're at it, print this article from Wired and include it in the envelope: https://www.wired.com/story/venmo-alternatives/ Like most sane people, I can find no reason to add another online payment system/app to my life. I realize Millennials, who can't wait to share everything from the swirls in their daily coffee to videos of their latest colonoscopy, delight in the social media hook of Venmo, but for those who hold our financial lives a little tighter to our vest, Venmo overshares, which is to say it also under-secures. Of course the real dilemma isn't whether I join Veno. It's whether I dump PayPal for buying such an idiotic concept. Again, the younger generation may have sworn off money, but to paraphrase George Bailey, it comes in pretty handy, and if you doubt that just ask identity thief. You're likely already in touch with them.
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