One Of The Creepiest Things That’s Still Happening On Facebook
I’ve been on Facebook for 11 years now. I remember when I first signed up and began connecting with friends, “poking” was still a thing. Basically, whenever someone poked you,…
LONDON, ENGLAND – AUGUST 03: A person holds an iPhone displaying the Facebook app logo in front of a computer screen showing the facebook login page on August 3, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
I’ve been on Facebook for 11 years now. I remember when I first signed up and began connecting with friends, “poking” was still a thing.
Basically, whenever someone poked you, you’d get a notification that you’d been...well, poked. There was a little blue finger icon next to the notification, along with an option to poke back. I never really understood what it meant, but hey, it was a simpler time and seemed pretty harmless, so I went with it.
Over time, pokes became less and less common on Facebook. In fact, I didn’t even realize that it was still a feature—until the other day, WHEN I GOT POKED.
It turns out, that the only thing creepier than getting poked on Facebook in 2021, is getting poked on Facebook in 2021 by a guy AT LEAST thirty years older than you, who is a complete stranger.
So...although poking is still a thing on Facebook, thankfully so is blocking. ;)
