Wired News: College Facebook Mugs Go Online: "College Facebook Mugs Go Online

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02:00 AM Jun. 09, 2004 PT
Maya Chard-Yaron, 19, was poked about 10 times last week. But rather than getting annoyed at the unsolicited jabs, Chard-Yaron kind of enjoyed it -- especially since friends and acquaintances were doing the poking through a social-networking website, Thefacebook.
On Thefacebook, poking is a way of saying 'hi' to would-be contacts, a method to strike up a conversation without adding the person as a friend. "