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Feeling Anti-Social? There’s An App for That

According to Nielsen, we spend one out of every 4.5 online minutes visiting social sites and blogs (a stat that seems low to me). That kind of use can put a pretty big dent in your workday. A developer named Fred Stutzman couldn’t control himself. So he made an app that, when launched, prevents him from visiting a selection of sites (from Facebook to Youtube) until he reboots his computer. It’s called Anti-Social.

Signal received December 14th, 2010
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