Poke application does not have approvingly users

Announced the social networking site « Facebook » the first Friday announced the launch of a new application called « Poke » in reference to one of the features in the site and known by the same name « Nkzh » Poke, system iOS.The new application, which it launched the Facebook name « Facebook Poke », a copy of the Instant Messaging applications that are destroying self-messages, and that benefit for activities that require confidentiality or privacy.

The application allows new users to send messages, pictures and video clips temporary, which automatically disappear from your future after just seconds from being sent, and ranging time period for the expiry of the letter of seconds to ten seconds, where the user can select a time period for the expiry of the message a second one, 3, 5, or 10 seconds. The application can be through correspondence only one person or group of persons at a time.
This showed many users new application frustration after used, one of them is technical analyst, Betty Bashal, who said that from the evening of the new application is the amount given by the Facebook for the emergence of Alinkzh receiving, whether a message or an image or a video clip, lasts only for a period described quite some time, which is a maximum of 10 seconds, and said it is not enough, the future can not be retrieved in case he misses.
And description Bashal application « Facebook Poke » as ruthless as the future must constantly pressure with a notice that appears to him to see the sender’s Content, and then begins the countdown, and will not stop until the end and disappear with the message.
He Bashal that is expected to generate new application more frustration because of its limitations, and said he was on the company to add the possibility to stop the countdown when you lift your finger from the screen, but hard, as he put it.
Said Bashal that what is most anger of « Facebook Poke » is that you provide the application when his friends who is in communion with them through it, and that the application is not available does not work only on mobile devices, that is, copy the web of networking Facebook does not support Show content sender via the application , which requires users to download the application on their mobile devices.
In case a user has to take a snapshot of his computer screen when show Alinkzh, to save him, the application will notify the sender that this user did so, by showing the icon « Flash » to the name of that user.
And booed Bashal that the application does not support the front camera as a choice by default, but in turn, praised the ability to add text and colored fonts to images, which helps, he said, to draw the attention of the future to the most Mairead sender communicated to him, during that period is very short, which may not be enough . According Bashal.
Said Bashal that first aroused frustration towards the application is not possible to capture images and video clips juncture horizontal, but later found it was a good idea, because users usually use devices juncture vertical, and perhaps the conversion to horizontal, according to Bashal, you may miss them Alinkzh During that short time before her disappearance.
The Bashal concluded All in all, that annoying application but may improve with time and is still in the beginning. Although the Facebook launch your application, do not rule out that observers acquired « Snapchat ».
It is believed that « Facebook Poke » came a competitor to the IM application images « Snapchat » which revolves idea about sending pictures between users and application disappear after a period of time, but Facebook denied that the application has been designed to compete Snapchat, which is post 50 million images through it daily.
Asked for his opinion on the application « Facebook Poke », welcomed Evan Spiegel, co-founder of the application of « Snapchat », the application did not comment more than that.