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New: facebook-style Poke module

Posted by ChrisKennedy on August 19, 2006 at 7:51am

I was in a coding mood tonight so I made a module that implements facebook-style pokes between users, currently displayed on their account pages. Right now you can do regular pokes, return pokes, and hide em. The code's not too pretty at the moment but it appears to work and is pretty fun.

Any comments are appreciated: poke.module.

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I know this may seem a silly

Posted by desm0n on August 19, 2006 at 8:39am

I know this may seem a silly question but what is poking a user and why would it be used ? Sorry i've just never heard of the term :)

I was curious as well, so a

Posted by deadhobo on August 19, 2006 at 2:48pm

I was curious as well, so a little googling later, here is what I ran across:

One of the unique features allows Facebook users to "poke" friends and acquaintances. A note is then sent to the poked with a picture of a pointing finger, informing the recipient of the electronic nudge.

Though simple in theory, the Facebook poke can carry potentially complicated undertones.

"It's underlying sexual tension," said sophomore Brandon DeBaun.

"It's a nefarious euphemism," freshman Michael Reilly agreed.

Odd.

Hehehehe thats certainly

Posted by desm0n on August 19, 2006 at 2:55pm

Hehehehe thats certainly weird. So you basically cyber poke them ? I'm trying to work out a practicle reason to use this module other than utter curiosity now :)

Hats of to the developer though, you've certainly proved original :)

Agreed

Posted by ChrisKennedy on August 19, 2006 at 3:34pm

I don't know how original it can be to copy a feature from faceboo, but thanks :P

Really it's just a silly little feature that doesn't have a huge purpose. I suppose you could say it is another (somewhat random) way for users to interact with one another in an online community.

Well its something else to

Posted by desm0n on August 19, 2006 at 4:20pm

Well its something else to give those pesky users :)

I wonder what happened to

Posted by Tim99 on December 2, 2007 at 6:57pm

I wonder what happened to that module. Is there anything with a similar functionality?

I want to poke someone but

Posted by jmai on December 4, 2007 at 6:08am

I want to poke someone but this module is not here anymore. Where did it go? Can I poke you ChrisKennedy abt this? *Poke*

=-=

Posted by VM on December 4, 2007 at 6:38am

investigate the nudge.module http://drupal.org/project/nudge
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New: facebook-style Poke module

Posted by gizmotroninc on October 25, 2010 at 9:40am

Where can I get the code? Please let us know Chris?

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