You’ve been poked by Facebook!

Superpoke is a Facebook application that allows you to perform certain ‘actions’ to your friends over your social network. The more you use the applications the more poke options you get. Where as first you may only be able to ’slap’ someone within a few pokes you are able to ‘throw Hillary Clinton’ at them. As with most Facebook applications the actions you performed are broadcast in your minifeed and newsfeed which means that all the users in your social network are able to see the actions that you have performed. This can either be seen as a blessing or a curse depending on what you do to certain people!

A rival application to Superpoke is X Me, which at the time of writing, only has 50,000 more users with the application installed. It performs the same functions, however it also allows you to add certain functions to the quick menu located under your picture on your profile and also allows you to create your own actions. This in my opinion is it’s best feature as it allows you to have actions that could be unique to your circle of friends or actions that only your friends would understand.