Twitter Goggles

This is brilliant - Google has invented Mail Goggles*:

When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?

By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you're most likely to need it. Once enabled, you can adjust when it's active in the General settings.

Hopefully Mail Goggles will prevent many of you out there from sending messages you wish you hadn't

However, in the nicest possible way, sent email is not the problem (apart from the odd momentary lapse of reason). Spam is a problem, sure, but this won't help much. But its a different story for Twitter et al. And so, ever helpful, we at Broadsight have copi...adapted the Mail Goggles widget for Twitter, as you can see below.



Yes...the real use of this is on microblogging sites, where the desire to communicate the absolute trivialities of life is so strong, and transaction barriers are so weak, that it pushes the signal to noise ratio to levels that even Hello! magazine cannot aspire to, and Big Brother can only look on in awe.

However, for the Greater Good of the Twitterverse, we believe some form of filtering is a very good idea, and self-filtering is a very good place to start. Instead of asking yourself "What are you doing now" and Twittering it, you could ask yourself "What should I be doing instead" and then shutting TFU

(And we suggest its left on full time, not just late at night)

*Update - when I first read about Mail Goggles I assumed it was a spoof, but its on Techmeme now and reading some of the linking blogs, they seem to think its serious. OMFG, as they say