Paypal App for sending money to friends is now on Facebook

Guess what? Paypal has taken a giant leap forward as they unveil a Facebook app that let's Facebook users send money to their friends.

The app is simply titled "Send Money," it is straightforward as its name, making it more user friendly. With the app, you have the choice to send either an ecard with money or just money with no card. You select a card, choose a friend to send it to and then select how much money to send. Pretty easy!

"The Paypal and Facebook infrastructure have now merged," Paypal's Anuj Nayar says. "This is another way to personalize the act of giving money."

While there are several ways to pay with Paypal via Facebook, this is the first app to enable peer-to-peer payments via Facebook and Paypal. And because it's a peer-to-peer transaction, there is no transaction fee, though Paypal's regular limits and international fees still apply.

"Sending money, person to person, is free," Paypal Senior Product Marketing Manager JB Coutinho said. "If it's funded by a Paypal balance or linked to a bank account, it's free."

And while the primary aspect of the Send Money app is its enabling of transactions across the world's largest social network, the ecard aspect is being emphasized as well. Paypal was quick to point out that more than 500 million ecards are sent every year, and that's why Paypal is offering dozens of choices for everything from birthdays to congratulations.

The app will really be taking off. Users who spot a friend's birthday on Facebook can quickly use the app and send a card and some cash within a few minutes. The app is just as useful for things like lottery pools and reimbursing friends for lunch. It's a big step toward making social payments a reality.