What is poke in facebook?

[Subra]

[B&T]

An old old feature that Facebook hasn't gotten rid of. Don't use it except with your spouse/partner, otherwise it's just weird.

[Electro]

allows a person not yet your friend to visit your profile for a certain period

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[Arnold]

you just poke your friends, but people dont really use it anymore

[Moz]

Poke is nothing but Buzz.

[Daniel]

Poke is A Button That you Press And It Pops Up on there home page Saying That They Got a Poke From you Its Kinda Like Regular Poking someone Only its Done Only Poke Can Be a Way of Saying Hello or to Get Someones Attention

[JeWeL]

People poke their friends or friends of friends on Facebook for a lot of reasons (ex: just saying hello). When you poke someone, they'll receive a notification.

When you poke someone, they'll see the poke icon along with your name when you're logged in on your desktop computer. The person you poke may also receive a notification.

[Parinita]

You can understand poke at facebook as to say “hey, you! wutsup”, but some people have wrong understanding that poke at facebook is symbol of disturbing. Following are the correct meanings of poking at facebook.

1.A “poke” is basically someone trying to get your attentionIt’s one of the meaningless features that are used just to annoy someone.
2.If you poke someone not in your network and they poke back. You can view their profile even if your not their friend!
3.A poke is when you allow someone to see your facebook page for 3 days, so they can know who you are and hopefully add you as a friend.