"Security applications and Facebook tend to mix together like oil and water," Sean Sullivan writes in an . "Folks generally want to share when they're online--and not to worry about security."
For this reason, ShareSafe's development team has designed the app to be entertaining, with security benefits "tagging along for the ride," Sullivan adds.
Indeed, the security feature of the app does take up very little of the offering's screen real estate. It's just a form field that occupies the top of the app's home screen. You can paste a link in the form and ShareSafe will tell you if there is any unsafe content at the other end of the web address.
This can be especially useful if you're dealing with shortened URLs, since their destinations usually can't be guessed just by looking at the characters in the address.
The rest of ShareSafe's interface page is made up of a dashboard and a feed of top links.