NEW WEB APP STOPS YOU POSTING ON FACEBOOK IF U ARE TOO DRUNK

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NEW WEB APP STOPS YOU POSTING ON FACEBOOK IF U ARE TOO DRUNK

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The Social Media Sobriety Test: New web app stops you posting on Facebook and Twitter if you're too drunk


By Niall Firth
11th November 2010

It is a terrible, gut-wrenching feeling: waking up to the awful realisation that you may have posted an incriminating message on Facebook while a little bit tipsy.
Now a new application that can be downloaded to your computer aims to stop you writing emails or posting messages while not in full control of your faculties.
Once installed, the Social Media Sobriety Test is programmed to post a series of simple problems that, while easy enough to do sober, are intended to be fiendishly difficult to complete when intoxicated.
The ‘Social Media Sobriety Test’ is designed to prevent alcohol-related posting to social media sites including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.
It also stops people from using custom sites like Foursquare or blogs and web-based email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail.
Developed by web security firm Webroot, the test’s tagline is ‘Nothing good happens online after 1 a.m.’

It is free to download.
Users are able to personalise it to choose which sites to block and then select the hours of the day that they are most likely to have enjoyed a few drinks.
If you want to access social media sites during these times, you will have to pass a randomly selected sobriety test such as ‘drag your mouse in a straight line', ‘type the alphabet backwards', or ‘follow the finger'.
Another test challenges users to guess how long 30 seconds is by clicking on their mouse.

If the inebriated user fails one of the simple tests, a message can be posted on their Facebook or Twitter page that tells their friends that they are ‘too drunk to post right now’.
In an advert for the new download, Webroot uses the example of a person who has posted a message beneath a photo of a friend’s child which reads: ‘Your baby has a big head’.
A spokesperson for Webroot said: 'Webroot is about protecting people online from cybercriminals. But let's face it, sometimes online security also means protecting you from yourself when you think it's a great idea to tell all of your Facebook friends - including your boss and your Mum - how you got wasted and fell over at the pub that night.

'That's why Webroot launched the Social Media Sobriety Test. We saw an opportunity to remind people to be responsible on social networks, and to be humorous while talking about Internet security.

'It's fun, it's free, and we hope people continue to talk about it and share it with their friends.'

The system is similar to Google’s Mail Goggles feature for its Gmail email service, which was launched in 2008.
Mail Goggles requires the user to solve a few easy maths problems quickly before hitting the ‘send’ button. The service is set by default to come into force only on weekend nights.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... z14zRIU2C7
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