Week 4 EOC: There's An App For That

Have you ever woken up the morning after you went out partying and received an odd text only to realize that it's a reply to a text you had sent the previous night while under the influence? If only there was a way to prevent drunk texting and that feeling of regret and overwhelming embarrassment the morning after. But wait, there is! With the new app: Friends Don’t Let Friends Text Drunk. Essentially, this app becomes your new friend for the night and works to save you from making a fool out of yourself while you’re having a night out on the town. With its simple design, the app is easy to navigate offering basic options such as black listing phone numbers you wouldn’t ever think of contacting while sober but know you would pay more attention to while you’re intoxicated along with the different levels of restriction which range from low to high along with how long you plan to keep the app enabled.

How it works is, before you start drinking, you open the app that will give you the options right away to either enable the black list, set a restriction level, or enable both depending on how drunk you plan on getting. If you choose the black list, your phone will automatically apply airplane mode to each number on the list so whenever you try to contact a blacklisted number, your phone will not respond to the command. If you choose restriction, you can either choose low, medium, or high. The low level will alert you once whenever you try to send a text or make a call with a pop up message that reads “You are currently under the influence. Are you sure you want to send this message?/make this call?” This notification reminds you that you’re not sober and makes you re-think about what you are trying to send. On this level, you may choose to either “Yes” or “No”. On the medium restriction level, when you try to make a call or send a text, you will be alerted with the same first message but if you choose “Yes”, you will be prompted again with the message “I don’t think you should send this message/make this call” which you will then be able to choose from “Oh well” and “You’re right” where choosing the first option will allow you to proceed and the second will take you back to your home screen. On the high restriction level, your phone will alert you three times and after the third time, if you try to proceed with sending the text or making the call, your phone will automatically lock itself on airplane mode, only allowing you to contact emergency numbers and numbers you have put on your white list (numbers of friends that usually take care of you when you’re drunk).

Once you have chosen what restriction you seem fit, you will be prompted with a final option on how long you wish your restriction to last. 2 hours being the minimum and 6 hours being the maximum. After this step, you are finally ready to go out and party as hard as you want knowing that the chances of waking up to shame are very, very low.