For better or for worse, our highest priority as a civilization is probably avoiding social faux pas—more than climate change, more than a cure for cancer, more even than an end to world hunger, we just want to escape shame! Technology has only made these social anxieties more intense. We’ve all sent a regrettable text, whether typo/autocorrect error, a drunken mistake or the dreaded accidental “sending of a text to the person the text was about” (as brilliantly demonstrated below by comedian David O’Doherty). Finally though, there is hope!

A “Chicago-born entrepreneur” (okay, whatever) named Maci Peterson has recently developed On Second Thought, an app that could very well save us the embarrassment of texting disasters by putting a 60 second delay on all messages, giving you time to reread, rethink, regret and correct. From the site:

Never regret another message.

We understand, mistakes happen. Whether we’ve accidentally sent our boss a message meant for our spouse, or auto-correct has made us look like a jerk, we’ve all been there. With On Second Thought we can undo those mistakes before anyone knows we’ve made them. All you have to do is swipe your message left or right within moments after hitting “Send.”

Peterson was inspired by her own experience, once intending to send an ex “Hey, for some reason I keep missing your calls,” which was autocorrected to “Hey, for some reason I keep missing your cock.”

There but for the grace of God go we all!
 

 
Via Chicagoist