If the mere concept and potential use cases of Facebook's new Poke app weren't creepy enough already, know this: each time you receive a private, timed message from one of your Facebook friends, you're apparently hearing the voice of Mark Zuckerberg. According to TechCrunch , the brief "poke" audio alert that accompanies each snippet of text, photo, or video sent through Poke was recorded by the CEO himself. Apparently Zuckerberg simply meant it as a joke at first, but before long the audio clip was run through some audio processing software and integrated in the app — which itself is unmistakably derived from Snapchat.
TechCrunch also says Zuckerberg was directly involved in coding Poke. Prior to cloning Evan Spiegel's popular...
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