For this week I am writing about two articles I found that are about a sobriety test for social networks. These articles are titled "Small Talk Social Media Sobriety Test" and "Tipsy Tweets? Foggy Facebook Updates Heres You Social Media Sobriety Test." In these article they talk about a company called Webroot that has created a program that is designed to prevent drunk embarrassing social media post. Webroot calls this program Social Media Sobriety Test. It works by first selecting the social networks you would like to block and from when to when you would like these sites to be blocked. Even during the times you selected to block these sites, you can still post content, if you pass one of the five sobriety test. One of these test are doing things such as keeping the cursor in a moving circle. Out of all the things i've read this semester it think that this is one of the most interesting social media applications, although i see it being useful to some.
- Small Talk Social Media Sobriety Test
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-talk-small-talk-1110-20101109,0,405714.story
- Tipsy Tweets? Foggy Facebook Updates Heres Your Social Media Sobriety Test
http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/11/08/tipsy-tweets-foggy-facebook-updates-heres-your-social-media-sobriety-test/
- Webroot's Social Media Sobriety Test Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNXMtc0iQrg
I think this is awesome!! I know some of my Facebook friends need this, and I'm not going to lie it would be useful in my life as well. Do you know what this service costs, or is it free to download? Either way I think everyone who is in college, and sadly high school, should have this installed on their computer. I was wondering when this kind of technology was going to start showing up.
ReplyDeleteAs far as i can tell Webroots is offering this program for free. You just have to go on their website to download it. Here is a link to Webroot's page where you can download the program from.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.socialmediasobrietytest.com/