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Paying Through Facebook May Become a Reality

Posted by Soulskill on from the every-human-will-have-seventeen-digital-wallets dept.

SmartAboutThings writes "A recent story at the NY Times talks about a possible partnership between Facebook and mobile billing company Bango. 'You might want to buy a game or concert tickets or an astrological forecast. Careful where your fingers go. One tap, and a charge will show up on your phone bill. "Frictionless" payment is how Bango puts it. Bango will get a cut of each click; it declined to say how much.' Assuming this doesn't remain a rumor, then quite soon we might be able to pay for goods using our Facebook accounts. Could this help Facebook regain the lost trust for their investors?"

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  1. Huzza! by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    I confidently predict that a blissful union of the non-sleaziness of mobile billing, the upstanding nature of Facebook, and the excellent security of consumer client devices will lead to excellent customer satisfaction and only the most minimal of fraud and billing disputes.

  2. On your wall..... by P-niiice · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey! p-niiice just bought a FLESHLIGHT from FLASHLIGHT.COM! p-niiice recommends you buy a FLESHLIGHT from FLESHLIGHT.com too!

  3. Re:To err is human, and that's the problem... by jamstar7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, humans are fallible. But to REALLY fuck things up takes a computer.

    I wanna pay for shit I buy through FB about as much as I want hemmeroid surgery without anesthesia on Pay-Per-View. So why am I thinking of mebbe building my own social media site that harvests demographic data only instead of doing a massive cavity search like Google/FB/etc? Cause mebbe its time has come.

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    Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
  4. what currencies will they support? by molecular · · Score: 1, Funny

    bitcoin?

    *ducks*