A poke is a small application on Facebook that is included with every account. When Facebook first became popular, it was common to see pokes happening frequently. Over time, the feature has become used less than newer features that are more fun and engaging, such as sending animated gifs and stickers.
While the poke feature is still available, it's no longer as easy to find on your desktop and mobile account page which has caused many users to believe it's no longer an option. If you used the poke feature in the early days of Facebook and haven't much since, you'll be surprised to know the setup for this feature has changed quite a bit.
It's not quite as visible as it once was so getting to the poke screen takes a slight bit of work. The process to poke someone is the same for both a laptop or desktop Facebook interface or if you're using a mobile device or smartphone.
If you're still unsure about poking on Facebook, give it a try, or look under the Facebook Help section for more information on pokes. It can be fun to sign in and see how many of your friends have poked you back but keep in mind some users find pokes intrusive so make sure your friends are open to you using the poke feature with them.
Reasons to Send a Poke on Facebook There are a number of reasons someone might want to send a poke: Just to say a quick "hello" to a friend To remind someone that you're waiting on a reply or a message from him or her To check in and see if a person has visited Facebook lately To let someone know you're thinking of him or her Just for fun with your friends. How to Send Pokes If you used the poke feature in the early days of Facebook and haven't much since, you'll be surprised to know the setup for this feature has changed quite a bit.
How to Poke Someone on Facebook The process to poke someone is the same for both a laptop or desktop Facebook interface or if you're using a mobile device or smartphone. Of course, not everyone uses this, and people should be fairly certain that both people are likely to understand any sexual connotations of a poke before proceeding to a chat and flooring a friend with far too much private information.
Another explanation is that a poke is meant to be mildly, moderately or greatly mischievous. A Facebook poke can also be used in a friend network to play a version of tag. People poke each other until the poke comes back to the initiator of a game.
I suggest that if he pokes his nose any further into this he will get it punched by local authorities. From the Hansard archive. Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3. Specula- tors are already poking their noses here and there, trying to smell out what profits are in it for them.
Is it not a fact that these old folk, like everybody else, do not like people poking about in their houses? I think it will be disclosed, when we have the replies, that our old friend the means test pokes his head up again. There is a clear role for the media, which need to stop using stereotypical images and stop poking fun. A very odd thing about politicians is that we love poking into other people's business. We have our wives and families in them, but we do not want anybody else poking around.
He pokes fun at that; be does not think there can be such a thing. All kinds of gibes could no doubt be poked at us. I wonder how much of that is due to people poking their fingers in the wrong holes. I suggest that she must have realised by now that they cannot be stirred very far, no matter how hard she pokes.
I believe that is an invitation to empire building and poking of noses. I do not want to see trained technical people coming into industry and being poked into offices.
I claim to represent the public interest, which is always a good alibi when you are poking your nose into other people's business. But there was one very beloved feature — a button to "Poke" other users. The poke didn't come with any explanation or rules. Zuckerberg, then 23, said he just wanted to make something with no real purpose. For years, Facebook as a company did not explain what poking implied see this vague interpretation from its FAQ page in , and so it was up to the first generation of the network's users to define the poke.
Now thanks to the advent of Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat, and Twitter, there are so many ways to tell people you approve of their online activity — with "likes" and "faves" and "hearts" — leaving the poke to fade into the background. Searching for combinations of the words "Facebook" and "Poke" on Twitter the internet's cafeteria yields a surprising number of recent results. Facebook now describes poking as a way to just say hello or get your friend's attention.
This might have been true for the earliest generation of Facebookers. When I asked one close friend what she remembered about the Facebook poke, she immediately responded "poke wars. From my own personal experience, "poke wars" were like a personal battle of wills, each person trying to have the last poke before signing off. In , the poke had grown to be associated with a lighthearted flirt. Slate's Emily Yoffe wrote that the poke was " a form of Facebook communication for the commitment-phobe who doesn't want to rush into friendship.
But Yoffe's definition clashes with a op-ed article from Brown University, which affiliated the poke with such a high level of sexual tension that it led two seniors to have an "awkward" one-night stand. Then there was this Mashable post , which said a poke between two people in led to their marriage in
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