In a 2005 interview, Mark Zuckerberg, now Meta's CEO, said he was drunk when he came up with the "poke" feature on Facebook. Now it's back!

Facebook’s parent company Meta made a design tweak in early 2024 to make the poke button more visible (PA Wire) Facebook has made minor adjustments to its poking tool to revive the old poke war ...

The post Facebook’s Poke Button Is Back, and Gen Z Is Having Fun with It appeared first on Consequence. In Facebook’s early Wild West days, the Poke button was one of the few ways to communicate on ...

What does it mean to “poke” someone on Facebook? Is it flirty, friendly, or even annoying? The answer is all of the above, and somehow, none at all. The ambiguous feature was largely invisible for ...

Flirt like it’s the early 2010s. The “Poke” feature is back on Facebook — and Gen Z is loving it. In Facebook’s heyday, poking was all the rage, using the feature as a way to flirt, get someone’s ...

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In 2009, when I was just starting college, Facebook wasn’t about your aunt’s political views or MLM business but about performing sexual tension. You could be in an exclusive “It’s Complicated” ...

The poke is back. Or it never really left, Facebook just buried it deep under layers of news feed clutter and Marketplace listings. Now, Meta is dusting off one of its most infamous relics and putting ...

Oh, well would you look at Facebook, trying to make a Christmas funny with its SnapChat copycat app. It's called Poke! Get it? Because SnapChat is what the kids are all using for their sexting these ...

Facebook has removed its standalone Poke app, an early clone of Snapchat, as well as its Camera app, from Apple’s iTunes app store. A Facebook spokeswoman said Friday that the apps had been removed ...