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Don’t Drink And Tweet!

Posted on 09. Nov, 2010 by admin in Lists, Social Media

Don't Drink And Tweet

Well, we’ve all been there. Millions of us wake up on any given Saturday or Sunday morning in horror after reading last nights drunk post on any number of social networking sites. With social media becoming increasingly available to people wherever they are it can cause a problem after some of us have a few too many drinks.

Webroot, an internet security firm, recently launched a firefox plugin that aims to fix this. The Social Media Sobriety Test prevents you from being able to log on to your favorite social media accounts unless you can prove you are sober.

Some of the various tests include spelling the alphabet backwards, keeping your mouse pointer in a moving circle for a given time period, and other popular road side tests. The Social Media Sobriety Test will even post for you if you would like notifying your community that you are currently too intoxicated to post (some may say this is just as bad as the drunk post itself).

Below is a video that will walk you through how the Firefox plugin works: