Nobody’s Poking Anymore
We’ve made it clear that we’re not Twitter junkies, Facebook freaks, Myspace geeks or any other sort of social networking addicts.
Don’t get us wrong, we’ve got a fairly well-defined (and well-traveled) procrastination loop, it just doesn’t involve sitting around for half and hour six times a day trying to be clever with our “status updates.”
Of course, given the fact that these sites are all connected to our inbox (thanks a lot, Nancy), we can’t help but notice when certain trends explode on them – like the “25 things” craze, for example.
We also can’t help but notice when these Facebook fads disappear – like “poking,” or “superpoking,” for example.
No one is entirely sure why, but Facebook poking has gone the way of parachute pants and the crimper, becoming an “insta-relic,” if you will.
Facebook still maintains the feature, and maintains that it’s not a “flirtation device” but rather a way to “interact with friends,” but among our network nobody does it anymore.
Seriously … we haven’t poked anyone, been poked or seen anybody poking in several months now.
Which makes Facebook not unlike our founding editor since his wife got preggers.
Anyway, what gives? Why is nobody poking anymore?
Comments
By Silent DoRight on March 13th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
The lack of poking is a shame.
By hugh on March 13th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
I like poking!
By ian on June 29th, 2009 at 8:00 am
nobody is poking anymore as Facebook have removed the feature. The whole point of poking was that it allowed you to introduce yourself to strangers and potential friends and that was the whole fun of it.
Facebook have now removed this abiility making facebook less fun than it was. There is no fun in poking people who are already your friends!