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Rumor has it that when Snapchat creators refused to sell their app to the great Mark Zuckerberg, Zucks retaliated by creating the Poke messaging app. Now even more people can be pervy!

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Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, reportedly tried to buy Snapchat but the company preferred to stay private. What did Facebook do? Well, they came out with a better app that does basically the same thing 12 days later. Cue: Poke.

Facebook's Poke app, titled after the Poke feature, allows users to send temporary messages, texts, photos and short videos. The message is viewable for up to 10 seconds after the receiver opens and then is deleted forever*.

Of course anyone involved with the app give you big and innocent puppy eyes when you ask about whether it was designed to make sexting easier. This was the exact reason that got Snapchat into hot water as users were able to override the temporary feature by taking screenshots of the images.

*Unless you take a screenshot. Oh and also the service claims to delete the photos after 10 seconds, Facebook retains all pole messages for a couple of days to "help facilitate abuse reporting". Yeah, we can see it now, bunches of teen guys reporting their girlfriends for sending nudie pics to them.