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"“Poke” is the dumbest and worst feature ever invented for a social network. " Really? Because I think plenty of people (primarily teens) would disagree. Imagi
by jkincaid 17y ago
"“Poke” is the dumbest and worst feature ever invented for a social network. "
Really? Because I think plenty of people (primarily teens) would disagree. Imagine you're 16 and there's a cute girl that you're too nervous to talk to but maybe if you just poked... Oh wait. You did it. Can't take it back now. Will she respond..?
I'd love to see how many relationships were kindled this way. I know this isn't really crucial to her argument, but she spent a whole paragraph ripping on pokes.
Edit: Corrected author's gender.
- rortian 17y agohttp://www.facebook.com/joanne.mcneil http://www.facebook.com/joanne.mcneil He?
- derefr 17y agoIf you continually do it back and forth, it also becomes a voluntary mechanism to show that you're still alive/online/paying attention. It's basically a human ping.
- potatolicious 17y agoActually yeah... I have a "poke war" still on with a friend that I've lost touch with in real life. It's been almost 3 years now - people make too big a deal out of it. It's a virtual ping, you don't have to pong if you don't want.
- Groxx 17y agoI was a poke-hoarder. It has the nice advantage of preventing people from continually poking me. Email me if you want a response, a poke carries zero information.