I have a facebook question

[treedimensional]

WTF is a "poke"?

[house]

It's a virtual poke. LOL!

this is poking

[emoflamingo]

It's annoying and people who use it drive me crazy.

[treedimensional]

I don't get it. Like, why is it used? I didn't know it was a thing.
Someone "poked" me and I have no idea what the facebook protocol is or how I'm supposed to react. I don't particularly want to interact with the person so I ignored & did nothing.

[housegeek]

You remember when you were in high school and there was that goofy nerdy guy who was nice enough but kinda off and you didn't really want to talk to him but had to on occasion as to not be a bitch?
He invented the "poke".

[lavender444]

Apr 20, 2014 12:01:40 GMT -5 house said:

It's a virtual poke. LOL!

this is poking

I have watched this way longer than I should have. Hilarious!

[emoflamingo]

Apr 21, 2014 7:52:00 GMT -5 treedimensional said:

I don't get it. Like, why is it used? I didn't know it was a thing.
Someone "poked" me and I have no idea what the facebook protocol is or how I'm supposed to react. I don't particularly want to interact with the person so I ignored & did nothing.

That is probably the correct reaction to being poked by someone you don't want to interact with. Those are the kind of people who use poke so that they'll hope you'll interact with them. Hold strong, tree!!

[Deleted]

This has been a thing since the facebook inception. I don't know why, it serves no purpose.