{"id":189,"date":"2015-03-19T22:40:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=189"},"modified":"2015-03-19T22:40:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T03:40:48","slug":"facebook-as-western-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/19\/facebook-as-western-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook as Western Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook now permits <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/18\/technology\/facebook-announces-a-payments-feature-for-its-messenger-app.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">sending money to your friends<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"175\" data-total-count=\"175\"><a title=\"More information about Facebook, Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/facebook_inc\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Facebook<\/a>\u2018s instant messaging service isn\u2019t just for sending smiley faces and photos anymore. Now you can use it to send money instantly to your friends.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"245\" data-total-count=\"420\"><a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"More information about Facebook, Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/facebook_inc\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Facebook<\/a>, the social networking company, <a title=\"Facebook\u2019s announcement.\" href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2015\/03\/send-money-to-friends-in-messenger\/\">announced Tuesday<\/a> that American users of its Messenger app would be able to link their debit cards to the service and use it to message money to one another just as easily as they send a snapshot or text.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"245\" data-total-count=\"420\">Later we learn China&#8217;s WeChat already supports this capability.\u00a0 What better way to make it easy to spend money on Facebook than if it already has your debit card in place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook now permits sending money to your friends: Facebook\u2018s instant messaging service isn\u2019t just for sending smiley faces and photos anymore. Now you can use it to send money instantly to your friends. Facebook, the social networking company, announced Tuesday that American users of its Messenger app would be able \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/03\/19\/facebook-as-western-union\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}