If you’re living in the Netherlands you probably all know this commercial of Hi; Friends share everything, because one day without posting, is one day wasted. But if you are as drunk as the people in this commercial, you might disagree with this statement, especially when you wake up the morning after you drunken debauchery and find out that all people who have access to you Facebook or Twitter page ( basically everybody) saw that embarrassing picture or message. And if that isn’t enough already, it is also possible that your post or picture ends up on special websites or social network profiles that collect the craziest posts on social media from the last night. If you want to see some examples, check out www.textsfromlastnight.com or passedoutphotos.com.
The best way to prevent that your drunken picture or message ends up on the internet is obviously by not placing it on you profile at all. But for the people who cannot help themselves, Apple comes with a solution: the Last night never happened app.
This ‘ morning after’ application helps people erase all their posts from the night before in a few simple steps and keeps the posts from spreading out all over the internet. So when you come to that point during you night out when you start making embarrassing pictures of you and your friends with your Iphone and immediately place them on Facebook or tweeting the most embarrassing things on Twitter, LNNH can help you out. LNNH works as follows: choose if you want to log in on Facebook and/or Twitter, set the number of hours how far back you want to clean up, hit the last night never happened bottom and confirm. All the posts you placed after that time are deleted in a few seconds. You can download this application in the Apple Iphone store.
Unfortunately, there isn’t an application for the mobile phone yet that really prevent you from posting drunken messages. But the people who have a ‘nice’ evening at home on a regular basis can install the Social Media Sobriety test on their computer. This browser extension for Firefox and Chrome aims to prevent you from placing posts on the internet when you are not sober by letting you do some sobriety test, for instance following a moving object with the cursor. If you do not succeed you will not get access to your social network sites, so you cannot post anything. But there is a catch: the program might prevent you from placing something stupid, but it places a post for you instead that says that you are too intoxicated to post right now. I think this is actually even worse than placing a stupid message. And after all, when it comes to the point that you need these kind of programs an applications, it might be a good time to cut on your alcohol use.
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