Brian Lair on WNYC, and to end the show today, have you ever said the Venmo request that went

unpaid or received one for, you know, $3.67.

Maybe you have a digital debt waiting in your cash shop account from last month that you've

completely forgotten about. Does your buddy owe you 50 bucks for movies and dinner last week?

Are you nodding your head at that one? What's the etiquette here?

How do you manage these transactions in your friendships? And what does that say about the nature

of that relationship? Call or text us right now at 212-433-W-N-YC on what we might call Venmo

etiquette. 212-433-9692. And joining me with her thoughts on Venmo

etiquette is Annabelle Williams publishing editor at the Wall Street Journal, who just wrote about this.

Hey, Annabelle, welcome to WNYC. Hi, Brian. Thank you for having me. So what got you thinking about Venmo etiquette?

The Wall Street Journal does a lovely column called Young Money, where staffers are encouraged

to think about things that they're seeing in their day-to-day lives with how they interact

with money.

And I have to say, I interact with Venmo more so than maybe any other way that I look at my own money.

I use it at least once a week.

And I've found that my use of it has changed as I've gotten a little bit older and built a little bit more wealth.

And I was curious to

talk to my friends and talk to my contemporaries as well as experts and see kind of what it was all about.

I'm going to put one of your anecdotes on the table here as a model for people. You write about a roommate who seemingly nickel and dime your sister routinely for small purchases.

What does it say about a relationship when we're requiring $1.57 from our roommate for splitting a jug of milk?

Just to clarify there, I don't want to beline my sister's roommate who actually is very generous, but we were talking broadly speaking about, yes, what it can feel like in the sort of social context of getting a very small Venmo request.

And this was something that I saw more often when I was in college

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