Get Anti-Social and End Your Distractions

Facebook in a office

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Sorry Personal Computer peeps, this ones for Mac users only.

If youre like me as well as Im guessing that many of we have been we simply get distracted by those Facebook, Twitter, as well as Gmail tabs staring at we from your web browser. How can we get any work done when we constantly need to know whos retweeted something Ive tweeted, or responded to a criticism we left upon someones standing update, or replied to my wise-ass acknowledgement in a group email thread?

The usually answer is to unplug. Unplug from a amicable network, that is. Anti-Social is a honeyed small module for Macs (OS X 10.4 or later) that blocks access to a progression of amicable networking sites. Among others, these have been a little of a sites we wont be means to get to (full list here):

Pack of Twitter

Graphic: carrotcreative

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Flickr
  • Vimeo
  • LinkedIn
  • Skype
  • StumbleUpon
  • *Gmail

*Email restraint is optional. When a application is run, we can opt to keep email access, if its required for your work.

You can additionally mention other websites to block, like FOXNews.com for e.g. (although Im certain we would never have temptation to go there).

I downloaded a hearing chronicle as well as commissioned it inside of a few mins (limited to 5 uses / registered duplicate is $15). Then we ran it. Because a shock of not carrying this access for too long would means me to twist up in a ball as well as cry like a baby, we set it for thirty minutes. we tried removing to a sites in Firefox as well as Safari:

Email re! straint option

I even did a Force Quit as well as tested again. Still no go. Once a thirty mins expired, we was behind in business.

The author of Anti-Social first came up with Freedom (which is accessible for Windows), an additional distraction-fighting apparatus that utterly shuts off a entire Internet. But realizing that a little people still indispensable a WWW for their work, he tweaked it.

Now a subject remains: Do we have a discipline to run a software?

COMMUNITY CONNECTION

Check out a following articles to sense some-more about a amicable media craze:

Technology Bytes: Social Media Revolution [Video]
How to be a Social Media Douchebag.
Matadors Focus Page upon Social Media
Social Media Hangovers: Disconnecting in Order to Connect


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