I personally set all my Venmo payments to private - but it does offer a very slight form of entertainment giving the news feed a quick scroll whenever I make a payment. It's certainly not something I check unless I'm already using the app though. Funny to see "John paid Christy for 'Moldy cheeseburgers'" or whatever your friends come up with.

The actual use of it is absolutely amazing though. When I needed to pay my sister for my share of our parents anniversary gift I was out backpacking in Europe, it took all of 5 seconds to send her the money across seas from my bank account and for her to receive it.