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Colleen
country bumpkin
Have you ever asked yourself exactly what does it mean to poke someone on Facebook? Facebook added the odd “poke” feature with no real purpose except as an additional method you can use to say hello or attract your friend’s attention.Some people consider it annoying, others consider it as a form of flirting, and others just use it to get their friend to wake up and start posting updates again. This means that at the moment there’s no real accepted “poking etiquette,” and people are pretty much making up their own rules. In simple technical terms, a “poke” is a link that you click on under someone’s profile picture in order to post a message on their Facebook page that you’ve just poked them. That’s really all there is to it – it’s simple. Or is it?
Since “poking” is basically the process of posting a message to your friend’s wall to wake them up, flirt or annoy – why couldn’t you do the same thing with a simple message? The fact is – you can. And message “poking” adds a bit of flexibility and fun to the process.
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| 11 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
melandrupert
The poke feature is intended to be a poke gesture (similar to "nudge" in instant messaging) to attract the attention of another user. A previous version of Facebook's FAQ gave additional insight into the origin of the feature, stating:
When we created the poke, we thought it would be cool to have a feature without any specific purpose. People interpret the poke in many different ways, and we encourage you to come up with your own meanings.
— Mark Zuckerberg during a live Facebook webinar
There are several applications on Facebook which extend the idea of the poke feature by allowing users to perform other actions to their friends—such as "kick" or "wave to". Some people reciprocate pokes back and forth until one side gives up, an event known as a "Poke War".
| 11 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
