I thought it was funny to joke about my iPhone needing a breathalyzer—until someone actually invented one. There are apps that let you block certain contacts for a portion of your evening, and even a Social Media Sobriety Test that plugs into your browser and blocks you from accessing your social media until you’ve passed a customizable test. Now you can add “Last Night Never Happened” to the pile—an app HuffPo just profiled that allows you to mass-delete all posts to Twitter and Facebook during a certain window (instead of doing it manually, I guess?).
I like to drink and I like to Tweet, so drunk tweeting about The Tudors WILL happen (hello, last night). I can’t imagine actually using any of these products, though, as much as my Twitter followers might appreciate it—they generally strike me as gimmicky and a little bit sad. But as etiquette has tended to develop a few steps behind technology (see: cell phones), it is interesting to now see technology specifically addressing questions of etiquette.
Counterpoint, anybody? Is this stuff actually useful?
I used Mail Goggles for a while and it prevented me from sending a drunk email or two. But it also prevented me from sending the occasional sober late night email. So… medium useful?
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I stand behind all my drunk shenanigans. If I have to apologize later, I will. And do. It’s all part of the deal I think.
Let me just drink my lunch and then I will tell you EXACTLY what I think of that, Kiala.
Maybe, but what can protect us from a drunken Alison Hallett?
I cannot wait, Ben. *refreshes twitter*
I’ve used the Gmail drunk app and it mostly reminds me of how terrible I am at basic math while completely sober.
What would our culture be without drunk-dialing/texting/etc? A MISERABLE PILE OF SECRETS.
Usually if I am drunk enough to say something stupid over twitter, facebook, or via text message, I am too drunk to actually type whatever it is I am trying to say and end up sending messages to random people that amount to conversations like the following actual conversation pulled off my smart phone:
“Having drunjs xat masu :3”
“…Seriously? You drunk.”
“NAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAA I AM A travelling gypsy”
“AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR WRRRRRRRRRR LOVVVER”
…and people find such things amusing, I suppose. They usually laugh. :3
I’m not much of a drunk texter, but the other night I woke to find I’d sent the extremely cryptic “Something happened to me while scuba diving.” Still not sure what that’s about.
something about seeking recovery and how I’m a better person.
If you’ve learned your lesson sufficiently to know you need this, you probably don’t need it anymore.
@ Todd, if there’s an app for “the comedy stylings of Todd Mecklem,” that’s probably good enough to keep even the drunkest of women away from you.
#8 @Alison — you were that drunk? You looked so cute with your mask and snorkel dunking you head in the fish tank.
I am still confused why they were in you pack and were we at the Galaxy or Basement Pub.
What happened was we were 86ed.
@CC:
1 lb beefsteak, with
1 pt bitter beer
every 6 hours.
1 ten-mile walk every morning.
1 bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don’t stuff up your head with things you don’t understand.
All I understand is that you do for funny what the Nazis did for German driedel sales.
And all I know is that you’re a schlemiel who can’t even spell “dreidel.”
Also, your example there of what you consider funny explains a lot.
Also, you’ve libeled me. I’ve never had trouble attracting extremely drunk women.