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 Remember the days when you could go out with friends for a simple night out of fun and drinks, but if it got a little out of hand, it was easily fixable? You could just call Joe the next day and tell him you really do like his hair and it doesn't really make him look like Billy Ray Cyrus. Or, you could just keep the picture of you mooning the policeman on the corner out of the photo album and no one would know? Those days became a thing of the past with Facebook, Twitter, blogs, etc.
 Now, a drunken 3 a.m. post is not only seen by your closest friends; but you're co-workers, old next door neighbor, camp councilor from 6th grade summer, and any number of your 'friends' on Facebook can see that you lost the Man vs. Food taco eating contest, and have 'shared' the pictures on their page to prove it. And the, "Oh No, did I really say that!" questions can be easily and quickly answered. Just look at your Twitter account, because not only did you say that, 37 of your followers are now Tweeting about it themselves. Waking up and erasing the evidence of last night's festivities is too little too late.
 But, in the age of all things social media, there is actual software to protect you from completely embarrassing yourself and offending others. In my quest to find new and innovative ways to use social media, I stumbled across something that helps us protect ourselves from it. Webroot is an Antivirus & Antispyware company that debuted it's new Social Media Sobriety Test in 2010.
 Once the test is downloaded, you can program what time of day you want the test to pop up and which sites (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, etc.) you want to be blocked from if you fail. And once you have failed the test, the program automatically sends a post to your designated social media sites stating that you're "Too drunk to post."

  Although Webroot's Social Media Sobriety Test is funny, it shows how much social media has effected our every day lives. Drunken cartwheels posted on YouTube on a Saturday night with friends quickly turns into water cooler talk at the office Monday morning, and could potentially effect your job, or at the very least, the way your coworkers or clients perceive you.
 The Social Media Sobriety Test is a goofy way to say that we may actually need more software to protect ourselves from making poor choices and exposing too much of our personal lives on social media sites, whether we're drunk or not.
 But, I have to admit, I really do enjoy logging onto Facebook on a Saturday morning and reading all the posts from my friends who stayed out a little later than they should have!