{"id":16433,"date":"2010-11-09T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-09T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T06:11:00","slug":"web-tool-aims-to-prevent-day-after-facebook-regrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/16433-web-tool-aims-to-prevent-day-after-facebook-regrets.html","title":{"rendered":"Web tool aims to prevent day-after Facebook regrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the premise that &#8220;Nothing good happens after 1:00 am,&#8221; the tool from Colorado-based Webroot promises to &#8220;put an end to the embarrassment that follows regrettable, late-night posts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Social Media Sobriety Test&#8221; is a free plug-in for Firefox Web browsers.<\/p>\n<p>It requires a user of Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube or Tumblr to perform a coordination test before being allowed to access the service.<\/p>\n<p>The tests include keeping a cursor inside a moving circle or correctly identifying a series of flashing lights.<\/p>\n<p>If a user fails they will be blocked from using a service.<\/p>\n<p>Sobriety Test users can set the hours they would like the blocking tool to be in force.<\/p>\n<p>Google also offers a tool for its Gmail service designed to prevent users from sending drunken emails. &#8220;Mail Goggles&#8221; forces users to solve five simple math problems in less than a minute in order to send a Gmail missive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/282841-Web-tool-aims-to-prevent-drunken-Facebook-regrets\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Web tool aims to prevent day-after Facebook regrets\"><strong>Web tool aims to prevent day-after Facebook regrets<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Web security company is offering a free tool designed to prevent users of social networks from posting embarrassing drunken messages online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}