Wave: asynchronous content free message

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Wave: send a message to the receiver that only contains the senders identity - no content - the meaning is context dependent, may be influenced by ui(the change from poke to wave), or subverted by users.

Mapping: UI element where a user provide asynchronous signal to a recipient of their attention. Is sent and received .
Examples: Wave on Facebook (replaced ‘poke’)

Also know as: like(person), poke(archaic fb)
Related concepts: Upvote(media)

(please feel free to edit/correct)

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By presence indicator, I thought you mean the concept in Slack (eg) which shows a user as online or away. But then isn’t it synchronous by its very nature?

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I was thinking of the async version in Facebook, where you wave to a user.

The presence/status indicator in slack is a different concept .