Alcohol + smartphone: Apps against embarrassing messages and posts
Who does not know it? Friday evening, we meet for pre-drinks. I don't know whether it's an unfavorable planetary constellation, but in my area the average number of heartbreak victims is currently around 34 percent. At a pre-drink with nine people, there are on average three heaps of misery who are at risk of writing wine-soaked messages on WhatsApp to their ex-partner, which they will regret the next morning just as much as they regret the third tequila after the second bottle of Riesling.
So if you're worried about losing all inhibitions while drunk, contacting certain people or being embarrassing on social networks, these friends aren't much help. Messages to ex-boyfriends who you mourn in drunken moments, to best friends with whom you are currently having an argument, or to your father who wrote to you an hour before you drank your first bottle of Chardonnay saying that you are slowly finding a meaning in life should find a fixed salary - to save the hungover self of the future a lot, you can also use apps:
Drunk Locker
With this app you can select certain apps such as Twitter, Facebook etc. before drinking, which cannot be used for a self-determined period of time.
available for Android, free
Drunklock
In order to be able to contact specific people, you have to solve tasks in this app, so-called “Sober Tests”. Only those who pass this test and are therefore sober enough can contact the previously selected, blocked people again. Maybe the right thing for melancholics made sluggish by red wine, but not an option for an ambitious, hyper person like me. I would probably turn the whole thing into a drinking game: everyone has to solve a task - whoever fails drinks.
available for Android, free
Drunk Dial NO!
This app allows your current, sober self to send messages to your future, possibly drunk, self. For example, if you are at a party and suddenly find yourself face to face with your ex-girlfriend and you are not separated by two screens, reassuring words from the person who knows you best, namely yourself, can help a lot. This might save you a snappy “Oh well, I didn’t recognize you, have you gained weight?” when all you really want to say is “Oh well, how are you? I feel bad, I miss you and it hurts me to see how wonderful you are without me.”
available for iOS, €0.99
Of course, this is just a small overview of apps that want to save you from feeling bad the morning after. But they usually work according to a similar principle: they take advantage of the fact that you are not in full possession of your mental abilities. Because if you were in possession of this, you would hardly write to your ex how much you miss him because you would know how ugly he pronounces "sauce" or that he almost wets his pants in the face of intimacy.
So cheers to modern technologies that help us think when we can no longer do it ourselves!
Alcohol + smartphone: Apps against embarrassing messages and posts
