<p> Once installed, the software, known as 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.<br /><br />The Social Media Sobriety Test is designed to prevent alcohol-related posting to social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube. The application also stops people from using custom sites like Foursquare or blogs and web-based email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail.<br /><br />Developed by security firm Webroot, the test’s tagline is “Nothing good happens online after 1 AM”. It’s free to download. Users are able to personalise it to choose which sites to block and select the hours of the day that they are most likely to be drunk.<br /><br />If one wants to access social media sites during these times, one 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”.</p>
<p> Once installed, the software, known as 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.<br /><br />The Social Media Sobriety Test is designed to prevent alcohol-related posting to social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube. The application also stops people from using custom sites like Foursquare or blogs and web-based email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail.<br /><br />Developed by security firm Webroot, the test’s tagline is “Nothing good happens online after 1 AM”. It’s free to download. Users are able to personalise it to choose which sites to block and select the hours of the day that they are most likely to be drunk.<br /><br />If one wants to access social media sites during these times, one 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”.</p>