[Magdalen] FaceBook question

[Sibyl Smirl]

Whatever the glitch was is still glitching.  This post of yours was 
three days ago.  Today I got a new notification of five friends poking 
me.  I tapped on the notification, and got a page listing the pokes: 
three of them three years ago, and two of them one year ago.  None were 
from Richard Konopka, who used to poke me occasionally when we were 
first on facebook, and the _only_ person I remember ever doing it--I'd 
just poke back, then. One girl on today's list, a cousin, marked as 
three years ago, is dead, so I know that she didn't have anything to do 
with it today.  Beside each name is a "Poke Back" button for me.

Below the list of "new" old pokes that I'd never seen before is a list 
of "Suggested pokes", all cousins, with a "poke" button beside each 
name.  I have no idea why FB might suggest that I poke them, of all my 
200+ friends.

Could it be that somebody at FB got an idea to give people a bit of 
inconsequential trivia to puzzle over?  It's surely a relief from the 
political toil and trouble!


On 11/13/16 10:05 PM, Scott Knitter 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.
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> 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...
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