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On the premise that 'nothing good happens online after 1am', online security company Webroot has launched a Social Media Sobriety Test to prevent extremely inebriated social networkers from sharing any of their temporary wit and wisdom online.

Social networkers can impose settings which block particular profiles and outlaw certain hours of use, obstructing any regrettably booze-drenched revelations or drunken Internet inanity.

If users log on within their specified hours, they will be greeted by one of a series of sobriety assessments to prove their competency to network. Tests include typing the alphabet backwards, drawing a straight line with their mouse, keeping the cursor inside a moving circle and pinpointing a series of flashing lights.

If you fail, you are barred from entry and gently advised to 'maybe just go to bed'.

As evidence of the need for a sobriety screening tool, Webroot's site features a scrolling list of posts from the previous night that its services may have prevented.

Potential regretees include:

'My boss is drunk in my living room when all I really wanna do is read Harry Potter before bed.'

'Did I really just get lost in my apt complex and google mapped my way back? Yes. Oh Jameson.'

'I'm drunk, ate 4 bags of doritos and a box of pizza pops. Who wants to webcam?'

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