Comedy Becomes Reality With Facebook Slow-Poke

When "Saturday Night Live" star Andy Samberg spoofed Mark Zuckerberg prior to the Facebook co-founder and chief executive officer's keynote speech at the f8 developers conference last month, he introduced several new fake features, including the "Slow Poke." That one isn't fake anymore.

When “Saturday Night Live” star Andy Samberg spoofed Mark Zuckerberg prior to the Facebook co-founder and chief executive officer’s keynote speech at the f8 developers conference last month, he introduced several new fake features, including the “Slow Poke.” That one isn’t fake anymore.

Virtual goods provider IFeelGoods was behind the app, which was one of the products of its Halloween hack.

During Samberg’s appearance, he described the Slow Poke as adding a 24-hour time lag to poking, in case the senders had second thoughts.

The Slow-Poke app does just that, waiting 24 hours to alert recipients.

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