I have noticed that as a user of MySpace,that I sometimes stumble over peoples profiles that I would love to be able to view fully but then I realise that the particular individual has set their profile to private.In the past I use to add the person as a friend and hope that they add me so I could view their profile.The trouble is that often these attractive and interesting people you have very appealing MySpace profiles have thousands of other friend requests just waiting in their inboxes.

What are your options?

Facebook has a function called poking. You will find it on the left hand side underneath the picture of the friend you wish to poke. You simply need to click on the word 'Poke FirstName'. Facebook will let you know what you have done just in case you clicked the button by accident.

You are about to poke Donald. He will be informed of this on his home page.

What is poking and what does it mean? Remember when you were a kid and you used to poke someone to get their attention? Well there are two points of view about poking on Facebook. Of course those who like and those who don\'t!