{"id":293,"date":"2013-11-14T10:26:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T23:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2013-11-14T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T23:27:19","slug":"social-app-puts-bad-habits-to-good-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Social app puts bad habits to good use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting, generalised, socially-mediated swear jar&#8230; another interesting addition to the habit-breaking arsenal&#8230;<\/p>\n<h1>Social app puts bad habits to good use<\/h1>\n<p>Social Rehub collects money every time users swear, or commit any other bad habit decided by their friends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1;\">Bad habits are not only detrimental to the people that are chained to them, but can also be annoying for others. Acting as a digital swear jar, a new app from Romania \u2014\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1;\" href=\"http:\/\/socialrehub.com\/\">Social Rehub<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1;\">\u00a0\u2014 collects money every time users blaspheme, or commit any other bad habit decided by their friends.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Multiple users can set up their own group of friends or colleagues who participate in the tip jar. Each individual can then be assigned a bad habit their friends get annoyed by \u2014 whether it\u2019s swearing, smoking, biting fingernails or being late. Every time a friend catches a user transgressing, their tally goes up and they must pay the amount set by the group. The app also enables friends to snap a photo of the incident as proof. The collected money can then either be used to fund group nights out or sent to charity.<\/span><\/div>\n<article>Currently available for free on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/id650465443\">iOS<\/a>\u00a0devices, with an Android version on the way, Social Rehub makes swear jars more fun and social. Could an app like this actually work to curb users\u2019 bad habits?<\/p>\n<p>Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/socialrehub.com\/\">www.socialrehub.com<\/a><br \/>\nContact:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:team@socialrehub.info\">team@socialrehub.info<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springspotters.com\/\">Spotted by<\/a>\u00a0Peter Irwin, written by Springwise<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springwise.com\/social-app-puts-bad-habits-good\/\">http:\/\/www.springwise.com\/social-app-puts-bad-habits-good\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting, generalised, socially-mediated swear jar&#8230; another interesting addition to the habit-breaking arsenal&#8230; Social app puts bad habits to good use Social Rehub collects money every time users swear, or commit any other bad habit decided by their friends. &nbsp; Bad habits are not only detrimental to the people that are chained to them, but can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social app puts bad habits to good use<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-habits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}