@parentofpeople, when you make a payment to someone you can adjust who can view the transaction. On the screen where you make a payment, in the bottom right, you’ll see it says Public. If you click on that you can change the setting to Friends or Participants. You do have to change it for each transaction as Public seems to be the default. I haven’t figured out yet if it’s possible, or how, to change the default. I do enjoy Venmo. It is convenient and easy.