"Poke" is one of Facebook's oldest features, going back to when it was just for college kids. In a 2005 interview, Mark Zuckerberg said he came up with the idea while drunk. Poking is back! Facebook ...

The poke is back, but it never technically went away. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The "poke" technically never went away, but Facebook is trying to make it a thing ...

More Facebook users in recent weeks are opening a notification they forgot even existed: A “poke” from a friend. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

In one of the most surprising comebacks of the decade, poking has made a recent resurgence on Facebook. There has been a 13x spike in use of the feature that has been around since Facebook's early ...