Look, I don’t know why, but apparently Zuck and Co. that decided It’s time to try to make a start againThe platform announced a new makeover, who was already trying to revive it in 2017, then again last year, to limited interest.
But it is clear that Facebook is not willing to give up the option, even if everyone is.
As you can see in this Sample screensFacebook’s newest attempt to resize pokes, adds simplified poke functionality and a new gamification element.
As explained by Facebook:
‘See who you stuck and find other friends to poke www.facebook.com/pokes. You can see that you grow legs with friends every time you stab each other, while you can also reject pokes from the list. “
And as you can see in the first image above, Facebook also brought the Poke button back to user profiles, so that you can easily poke someone by going to their profile page.
Why would you want to do that? I don’t know, but Zuck and Co. Think clearly that it has value and can somehow add to your social media experience.
Or they just want it to happen.
In March, Meta tried to breathe new life into Facebook by announcing that it would add “different OG Facebook experiences” to the app. That started with his renewed friends tab, and now that is also being expanded to this last attempt to drag poring back in a form of relevance.
Although it seems unlikely to ever get a real traction, especially given that fewer people now use Facebook, and even less use it to make contact with friends, where most now switch to message platforms for such a purpose.
But perhaps it is worth trying Meta again, and perhaps there is a dedicated group of Poke enthusiasts who usher in a new era of meaningless, annoying interaction in the app.
And if Facebook can cause young people to use the option, that could cause a Snapchat-like hurry on pokes, with the new Por counts that behave like their own version of Snap Streaks.
I assume this is hope here, but it just feels like a tone deaf, business attempt to “make up the ups”, which again reflects the wider lack of trend nous and user interest.
That seems ridiculous to say about a company that has the most used social and messages apps in the world. But the thing with Meta’s apps is that younger target groups are rarely so interested, in which older demography fills in the figures and stimulates their use.
That is undoubtedly better for business, but Facebook and Instagram never first have the cool functions, they just clone them from Snapchat and Tiktok, to hold the latest trends.
You can also see this in the AI tools of Meta, where Facebook constantly encourages you to “take a photo of yourself as an astronaut” or another dope promptly.
Why? Why would anyone want to do that? Why would anyone want to create a fake, AI image of themselves that does something they have never done, except to lift people by sharing this within Meta’s apps?
The same applies to meta’s AI-Bots inspired by celebrities, which has now tried to make something several times. Why would someone care if the AI -Bot with which they are concerned with Snoop Dogg or Jon Cena sounds? It’s a bone, it’s not these real celebrities, so why is this one thing that keeps pushing Meta, as if this is the holy grail when building a connection with a younger audience?
Facebook has clearly been a huge success and the purchase of Instagram was afterwards a genius genius. But Zuck and Co. Do not know what is cool, and that is reflected in all their product releases, interviews, etc.
Meta is the ultimate culture vulture, which depends on the credibility and nous of other platforms and employees to win. Even the meta -ray ban -glasses is only cool because of the import of Ray Ban, not because of Meta’s own input.
And that was clearly no obstacle to the broader success of Meta as a company. But as a cultural influence, with unique characteristics and engagement tools, Facebook is not.
But now it is easier to poke people again, so people who did not know what Facebook was in 2006 can try it out and get sick as we all did.
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