I’ve noticed a growing number of people arriving on this site after searching for Facebook-related queries on search engines.
I think it’s in the interests of public service to try and provide answers to some of those queries. The search strings remain unedited. The answers may not actually be correct. But this is the internet, after all - you get what you pay for, and why let a bit of uninformed opinion get in the way of making a blog post?
- When someone pokes you on Facebook does it mean they fancy you?
Yes. Poking someone is an online-tribal way of flirting. The sequence usually goes poke - poke back - wall message - wall reply - silence - poke - poke back - babies - Poke on Facebook is sex
It usually involves a bit more than that. If that’s all you’re expecting in the bedroom department, you are ludicrously easy to please. - Who looked me up on Facebook?
It was me - I cannot tell a lie. Also, everyone you ever went to school with, and their new boy/girlfriends, and your old teachers, and your parents, and the guy who owns the shop down the street, and your boss. - Facebook compare people
This is one of the most insidious apps I’ve seen on FB, actually - it turns social relationships into competitions, and encourages the user to make judgements on which of their friends would be better in any particular character - best to share a room with, most flirtatious, funniest, and so on. Frankly, I’m surprised people who use the compare people app still actually have any friends… (also, it’s been a bit evil with regards to user data privacy) - How remove compare people app fb
See? - Facebook compae people app winners
In this life, people who compare their friends aren’t winners…they’re giant LOSERS - Facebook poking meaning
It means your friend has a thorn in their hoof and needs help removing it. - Facebook and social relationships
See here. - Facebook off the wall
It’s a Michael Jackson album, but with people writing things on the cover which should probably have been put in an envelope instead. - Removing a poke in facebook
You can’t - once it’s out there, it’s out there. If you poked someone in real life, could you take it back? - What means poke
It means they want you to pass the remote - Facebook status examples funny
…trapped under a heavy object
…a figment of speech
…hiding in your closet
…a hopeful romantic
…not feeling very funny - Famous people on Facebook
Kevin Spacey, Douglas Bader, Sir Alan Sugar, William Wallace. They’re all there. What, you mean they’re not your friends, too? - Good Facebook pseudonym
Arnold Schwarzenegger. Next! - What is vampire bites facebook
You know, I have NO idea. Actually, I do - it’s like a chain letter, only with saliva. And fangs.
Brilliant. Especially the last one. God I hate those vampire/zombie apps.
Also, if poking means flirting then a lot of my friends must think I want to shag them. Which, contrary to popular opinion, I most certainly DON’T.
Oops.
Hehe, funny of course because it’s true. It takes some skill to take all the most annoying aspects of Facebook and turn them into a good blog post.
And yes, vampire/zombie/pirate/all the other viral apps are most terribly irritating. Unlike the PacMan app, which is actually quite cool.
“Unlike the PacMan app, which is actually quite cool.”
And Scrabulous. Scrabulous rocks :)
Brilliant. I feel justified in ignoring all those badly drawn vampires now. Thank you, I can stop snapping matches everytime I get ‘chumped’.
Only problem is I now feel physically sick having ‘poked’ in blissful ignorance. Arghh! It’s not true I didn’t mean it… HELP, eject, malfunction!
Probably too late for you or anyone else to see this Meg but I can’t resist and working from home, I’m used to talking to myself… poking is surely just an electronic wave? A, ‘Hi! I’m here too!’ At least, that’s what I’ve always assumed it meant.
And totally agree about the Compare Friends app - truly VILE! Horrible. Schoolgroundy. Nasty nasty.
Mind, Top Friends is also horrible. The only time to do the, ‘You’re my besht fwiend in whole world, hic,’ is when you’re pissed and needing to be held up.
Lawlsie, you’re quite right. Poking is just hello, and not flirting - I was just suprised at how many people had arrived at this site by searching for “is facebook poking like flirting?” - apparently a poke isn’t just a poke, if someone suspects it isn’t….
Oh, thanks for that Meg. How nice you saw my comment. I assumed that because it was in response to a blog entry from a week or so ago, that you wouldn’t see it.
Anyway, I only poke when I know someone is online at the same time as me on Facebook. But I seem to get poked sometimes when I’m not there. And I find that a bit odd.
Best, L.