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, ...

The poke feature has been around since Facebook was created by Zuckerberg and four others at Harvard University in 2004, when the social media platform was at first limited for use by Harvard and ...

So mess around with it, because you're not getting an explanation from us," Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg once posted on his Facebook page. In fact, Fortune reports that the poke notification sound ...

If you’ve been using Facebook since the early days, you’ll likely remember the poking feature. You would poke your friends, they’d poke you back, and the cycle was unending. Today ...

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 ...

More Facebook users in recent weeks are opening a notification they forgot even existed: A “poke” from a friend. Poking was perhaps the earliest feature to promote interaction among Facebook ...

Facebook's Poke feature has been largely hidden for the past few years, but it's coming back. Meta says Pokes surged after it quietly resurfaced the Poke button. It's the perfect low-touch way to ...

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Facebook is putting a long-hidden feature back in the spotlight. The Poke feature, which was part of Facebook at its start, has seen a 13-fold increase in use in the past month, the company ...

"Poke" is one of Facebook's oldest features, going back to when it was just for college kids. In a 2005 interview, Mark Zuckerberg said he came up with the idea while drunk. Poking is back!

This helps you to get the attention of your friend on Facebook, and the person can also poke you back if they want to (or, if they still consider you as their friend). For all latest news ...