Social Media giant Facebook wants to branch out into the wild, wild wilderness of crypto-currency with the launch of its own funny money early next year.

The BBC reported that Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg met with the governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, to discuss plans for the "GlobalCoin".  It would enable Facebook's 2.4 billion monthly users to exchange their local coin for GlobalCoin, which can then be used for internet purchases or to transfer without the need for a bank account.

"Payments is one of the areas where we have an opportunity to make it a lot easier," Zuckerberg told the company's developer conference last month.  "I believe it should be as easy to send money to someone as it is to send a photo."

In order to stabilize GlobalCoin so that it doesn't experience the wild mood swings of BitCoin and other cryptos, Zuckerberg wants to peg it to established, nation-backed currencies such as the US Dollars, the Euro, and the Japanese Yen.

Critics of the idea point out Facebook's poor record on privacy issues and regulatory issues with practically every nation on earth as roadblocks that could stop this idea from coming to fruition.