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Im sorry but its hard to get past the name.

"Poke" is just too sexual. It might appeal to some people, but I can imagine a lot of women having negative associations with being "secretly poked". I do, and Im a guy.



I assume it's a reference to Facebook's "poke". If so it gives a frequent FB user a pretty good idea of how the site works at a basic level.

I didn't even consider the "dirty" meaning until you brought it up and I hardly use FB.




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