As I wrote earlier, a Facebook poke can mean anything, and now I am thinking about why not use Facebook poking to advertise? You can use it to advertise yourself, maybe in order to get a date, to get new friends, to promote your ideas, your business or whatever you would like to promote. You can poke all kinds of people, from your family and friends to people you don't know at all. It's easy, it's free and it works.

I have been poked by all kinds of people. Some of my friends pokes me, some people I don't know pokes me, and I have a few relatives that have been poking me lately... but why are they all poking me?

When I asked my friends and relatives why they had poked me, they said something like "everybody is doing it, and it seemed like a fun thing to do". When I asked them what a Facebook poke really is, none of them had an answer. We are all poking, but we have no idea what it is?

According to Facebook: