People got annoyed with the random 'Jeff poked you' notifications, and in 2011, Facebook relegated the poke option to the wastelands of your deep settings, where no one could find it. Or no one could be bothered looking for it either way.
Then in 2017, Facebook tried to make pokes a thing again, by adding them to profile pages, right at the top:
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