Are you holding my poke?

A friend pointed out to me yesterday that you can tell from your own Facebook account, if someone you have poked has either "held onto it" or erased it.

Try it yourself: simply re-poke somebody you've poked in the past. (To clarify, somebody who has not poked you back.) You'll get one of two messages. A) "You have poked xxxx." or B) "xxxx has not received your last poke yet. He'll get it the next time he logs in." If you receive the first message, then that means that they've either hidden your poke, or (this is obvious) have poked you back. This is fine.

However, assuming it's been a few days, if you get the second message, then that indicates that they have in fact received your last poke, they're just holding onto it.

What's the big deal? It's another tool for stalkers. Is this a shocking, huge security breach? No, absolutely not. But it is more information that can be interpreted about what you're doing and what you're thinking.