Save your job and wipe your filthy social media posts with this new app

Christmas party season is stalking you like a lion pursues an antelope, waiting for you to have one too many glasses of vino and vomit up the veritas all over social media.

But a new app promises to wipe up your social media mess, and might help you stay gainfully employed into 2019. Called "That F***ing Post" it hunts through your accounts looking for things you shouldn’t have said.

The app says it can go back to the start of many social media accounts, perhaps tracking down faux pas from years ago. Handy if you wrote things during the throws of youthful indiscretion but now want a paying job.

Depending on how profane you are though, it might be easier to just delete all your tweets and make your Facebook account private. Especially if you’re going for jobs where people care about your swears.

We gave the app a little try with a journalist account (we’re the worst, as you know) and it managed to find some naughty words. Not, perhaps, as many as we were expecting.

There were a couple of f******s, a lone f*** a single s*** and some t**s. Something wasn’t right, and it turns out that indeed, with the volume of profanity we’ve dumped on the internet it was going to take the app a while to find it all.

Re-running the app got the counts up slightly, with new numbers being a more respectable 31 f******** and 19 f**** while exciting new words like **** and sex started to show up.

Anyway, it’s a lot more fun if you let the app work for a while before starting the process.

The setup for this beta is a bit clunky. You’re basically using a pair of different apps, there’s TFP and Digi.me. Both work together, with TFP scanning your posts and Digi.me collecting and storing the data in a choice of online storage facilities.

That means you need to have either Dropbox, Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive to store your data – there’s no way to keep it on your phone.

While the app works well enough for social media, it’s useless with that regrettable comment you made to the office manager and it can’t take back that photocopy you made either.

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