Facebook users in the future will be able to transfer money to each other with the help of a corporate social network messenger. This was told by a student at Stanford University Andrew Aude, discovered by means of special tools for developers the proper hidden feature in Facebook Messenger app for iOS.
"Screenshot of the program carried out by the translation was found a month ago" - he said.Further research led to the identification of the whole application is ready to use, but not yet presented to the public. Aude said that transactions are not reflected in the news and can be made between users on a bilateral and multilateral basis.
American suggests that the pilot version of the application is already available to employees Facebook. Aude said that users will be able to "attach" transfers to private messages and send them as simple as photographs.
Earlier, the Facebook hired the former head of PayPal's David Marcus, who now heads the division of Messenger. In this regard, experts do not rule out that Facebook in the future will be able to compete with the main players in the niche - the payment system PayPal, Webmoney and others.