Casey did you hear that Facebook pokes are back?

Have you heard this?

I have because Facebook has mounted an aggressive marketing campaign that has made me very

suspicious as to whether this is actually true.

Yeah, Meta claims that it made a design tweak at the beginning of this year to make the poke button,

which had been previously pretty hard to find, slightly more visible, and then as a result, the

number of pokes on Facebook went up 13 times after this design change.

Yeah and they find that in cultures you know as as pokes go up it's directly

correlated with a rise in childbirth so in, and nine months from now,

we're gonna see a whole new crop of poke babies.

And now, did you have any notable poking experiences

back in the day?

That I'm comfortable sharing on this podcast.

Yeah, keep it PG, please.

I mean, no, I never had the sort of meet cute,

you know, where like a cute guy poked me

and then we entered into a whirlwind

romance did you have an experience like that? I didn't have a meet you but I had like a

kind of a mildly traumatic experience involving Facebook pokes which is so my

freshman year of college, we all got access to Facebook,

and my mom, who worked at a college and also had an EDU email address, also got access to Facebook and she was, this was before adults and you know, sort of the rest of the world was given access to. So she was like the only parent that anyone of my friends knew

who was on Facebook. She was one of the first moms on Facebook. Very cool

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