How To Keep Your Digital Dignity After a Few Drinks

 By 
Brenna Ehrlich
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How To Keep Your Digital Dignity After a Few Drinks
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Well, those days are over. Now you have myriad channels by which to potentially embarrass yourself while under the influence. And if you're among the 28% of the population with smartphones, this is true even if you're out and about and not pathetically staring at your screen at 3 a.m., alone save for your good friends Bud(weiser) and Johnny (Walker).

While we can't help you cease replacing the emptiness in your soul with shiftless parties in communal living/performance spaces replete with the nectar of glowsticks and Four Loko, we can help you undo -- or prevent -- some of the damage you will inevitably inflict whilst doing so.

Read on for four ways you can turn back the clock on your Internet indiscretions.

You don't have to be a rampant partier to benefit from these tools and tips. Even the most stoic among us have moments of insanity in which we fire off missives into the Internet ether we wish we could reverse.

And so begins my Netiquette column -- which I write with my Stuff Hipsters Hate co-blogger, Andrea Bartz -- this week over at CNN.

Check out the column at CNN.com >>

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