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Software
to stop you writing e-mails when drunk
Friday November 12, 2010 12:10:06 PM,
IANS
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London:
A new software can now stop you writing e-mails or posting
messages when you are drunk.
The Social Media Sobriety Test poses a series of simple problems
that are intended to be fiendishly difficult to complete when
intoxicated.
The test is designed to prevent alcohol-related posting to social
media sites like
Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.
It also stops people from using custom sites like Foursquare or
blogs and web-based
e-mail accounts such as gmail or hotmail, the Daily Mail reported.
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".
Developed by web security firm Webroot, the test's tagline is
"Nothing good happens online after 1 a.m." And 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 when 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'.
A Webroot spokesman said: "We saw an opportunity to remind people
to be responsible on social networks, and to be humorous while
talking about Internet security."
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