I still remember my first poke from a boy. I was 19 years old and in my third term of university; the young man in question and I had worked a couple of pub shifts together. We’d exchanged flirty ...

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 users. It ...

In one of the most surprising comebacks of the decade, poking has made a recent resurgence on Facebook. There has been a 13x spike in use of the feature that has been around since Facebook's early ...

When was the last time you were poked on Facebook? The feature has endured since the early days of the social media platform. Originally intended as a way to reach out to other users without sending a ...

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 ...