While you will not be in a position to send money to your Facebook buddies utilizing the social network’s Messenger application just yet, proof has appeared that it will not be long till you can.
The revelation comes as Stanford student developer Andrew Aude went public with his observations. Aude, who’d been poking around Facebook Messenger’s code through Cycript, a hacking tool for Mac OS X and iOS, discovered that a P2P payments system had been hard-wired into the app’s code – and he released screen-captures to prove it.
This could likely lead the way for users to send money digitally to their friends by way of their cash card through their smartphone, like the way in which the Money application from mobile card payment company Square offers to consumers now. He added that there wasn’t any charge connected with the transfer, and it may stay that way at first, though he added that he actually would not be stunned if Facebook instituted a $1 charge to cover their own processing costs of anywhere between $0.40 to $0.50 per transaction.
The student developer feels that Facebook is probably going to roll out this new functionality in the approaching months. Single payment attachments will be supported at first, according to annotations in the code Aude uncovered which added the future would bring multiple payment attachments as well.
While the moggy might be out of the bag so far as Facebook’s next step with its Messenger product, the social network has stayed close as far as whether Aude’s discovery is a valid one or not. Requests for comment on possible Messenger payments in the future have been turned down definitely, showing that Facebook either deems the problem not worth discussing or that they would prefer not to tip their hand before the functionality is prepared to be rolled out to the public; the choice on Facebook’s part to split off messaging capacity from the core Facebook mobile app has proved controversial.
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