[Magdalen] FaceBook question

James Oppenheimer-Crawford oppenheimerjw at gmail.com
Mon Nov 14 15:08:52 UTC 2016


I don't know either.  I ignore them, partly because I don't know why they
happen, and partly because I can't begin to imagine what I actually ought
to do other than post "I see what you did there..."

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This seems to be a recent glitch. "Poke" was a dumb way of getting
> someone's attention, I guess, and then for a while it seemed to go
> away, and now it happens again but doesn't seem to be triggered by the
> person themselves...I think it's sort of a spam thing. Suddenly I get
> a bunch of pokes from a few people, and I know they're all not sitting
> there sending me pokes at the same time. So yes, I think they're by
> accident but triggered by FB itself or some spammy bit of software out
> there. Fortunately, these are infrequent.
>
> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Would someone who uses FB please tell me what a "Poke" is? A friend sent
> me a note this morning saying she had received a message saying she had
> been poked by me another friend. I told her I had no idea what that meant,
> but I'd try to find out.
> > The one I supposedly sent must have gone out by accident--kind of like
> one of those "butt dials" from a cell phone...
>
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>


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