"The Art of Poking: Exploring Facebook's Playful Gesture in 2024"

In one of the most surprising comebacks of the decade,

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There has been a 13x spike in use of the feature that has been around since Facebook's early days

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemed to be celebrating the humble poke's return to popular use

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The poke feature has been around since Facebook was created by Zuckerberg

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when the social media platform was at first limited for use by Harvard and other Ivy League students

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It has remained available since, although Facebook had hidden the feature in its navigation

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But pokes are hidden no more, and the younger generations are mostly responsible for making poking cool again, according to Facebook.

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The company told TechCrunch that more than 50% of pokes are coming from 18-29-year-olds.

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There are no options to send messages or any other information with pokes

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