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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 app 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 WNYC on what we might call Venmo Etiquette, 212-433-9-6-92.

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 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 dined 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.

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