In Facebook’s heyday, poking was all the rage, using the feature as a way to flirt, get someone’s attention, annoy your friends or start a poke war. At the beginning of 2024, Meta redesigned ...

Poke was one of the earliest features of Facebook; started back in 2004, it predated the News Feed. But in the more recent past, it declined in use. Facebook was also becoming bloated with features.

Young folks — you know, Gen Z and the like — are apparently using the Poke more than ever. Last week, Facebook said it had seen a 13x spike in Pokes over the last month.

It’s unclear whether or not Poke keeps the images on Facebook’s servers or not. We’ve reached out to Facebook and are waiting to see what Facebook puts on the now-empty Poke support page.

Facebook said it saw a 13-fold spike in “poking” over the past month, with more than half of all pokes being sent by users between 18 and 29 years old. The company declined to share specific ...

But Facebook will need to be careful with the launch of Pokes and Greetings. In the past, some women said the Facebook Poke often felt like a creepy flirting tool, for example.

Home Social Media News Is Facebook bringing the poke back? One-click greetings are in testing By Hillary K. Grigonis Published December 12, 2017 ...

Inventors create a device that translates a FaceBook poke into a poke in real life. Trace Hagan TweakTown Published Mar 22, 2012 1:40 PM CDT Updated Jul 27, 2022 3:46 AM CDT & 45 seconds read time ...

Facebook has poked its way into the top ranks of mobile apps yet again.The social-media company put smaller developers on notice last week with the launch of its new Poke app for iPhones. The app m… ...

The Facebook poke is possibly one of the most pointless, annoying features of any social network to date. And apparently, it can land you in jail for nearly 12 months with a possible fine of $2500.

The Facebook Poke app is also ad-free for the time being. The allure of self-destructing messages is that they are unlikely to be seen by anyone other than the recipient, or to resurface during a ...