Send money to your friends over Facebook messenger

Note: This is maybe not for you if you have problems with drunken Facebook messaging.

From today, and rolling out to customers throughout the US over the coming months, you will be able to send  money to any of your Facebook contacts through  the Facebook messenger app. You can also receive it. Which makes sense.

The money transfer service is free to use, which is excellent, seemingly super simple, and according to Facebook, super protected. We like all of those things.

To use, Tap the ‘$’ icon on the top of the keyboard, enter the amount you wish to send, tap ‘pay’ at the top right corner and add a debit, Visa or Mastercard. Cinchy.

If you’re on the receiving end of the money transfer, you lucky devil you, you simply open the conversation from the friend who’s sending you money and add the debit card onto which you would like to receive the funds.

Receiving money can be done by opening the conversation from the friend who sent the money and adding a debit card to accept the money. Funds are transferred immediately when sent through the app, but it can take one to three business days for the money to be made available.

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