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 technique to flirt, get someone’s attention, annoy your folks or start a poke war.
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Just in time for its twentieth birthday, the social media company announced Tuesday that the “Poke” feature is making a comeback, improving suggestions on who to poke and making it easier to search out the poking page, TechCrunch reported.
The “Poke” technically never left, it was just buried deep inside a bunch of settings and virtually inconceivable to search out. You would need to search “poke” in the Facebook search bar or one way or the other know the unique URL to the Poke page by heart.
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At the starting of 2024, Meta redesigned the Poke button to make it more visible, placing the button next to any name that a user searched. It’s also easier to search out the Poke landing page now — you may type “poking” or “pokes” in the search bar as an alternative of just “poke.”
Seems, more people use a feature in the event that they can actually find it. Meta claimed that Pokes increased 13 times since the redesign.
Meta said that over 50% of recent Pokes were made by users between the ages 18 to 29, individuals who might’ve been too young to enjoy the true joy of poking in its height of recognition.
The young might compare a Poke to sliding into someone’s DMs.
Many users find the Poke to be extremely nostalgic, especially since it’s one in all the platform’s oldest features.