I’m a professional blogger, which has its perks. You can do most of your work from home, and on your own schedule.

There are downsides too however: you can do most of your work from home, and on your own schedule. It’s really easy, under those conditions, to let a five minute browsing session turn into two hours of browsing.

SnoopOn.Me aims to offset this by allowing any of my friends to watch me work. All I need to do is install the SnoopOn.Me program and the service will start uploading screenshots of my computer to the web. I can then go to the SnoopOn.Me website and invite friends and family to monitor me. This means that someone could be watching me at any moment – a major incentive to avoid distractions (or at least ones that are on the computer screen).

Those who I’ve allowed to see my screens can then comment on the screens or send me messages. They can tell me to get to work, to stop reading MakeUseOf or to close my game of Defend Your Castle. More important than them actually saying these things, however, is the idea that they might say them. This way SnoopOn.Me gives anyone prone to distraction a powerful incentive to get to work.

The downside? It’s Windows only at this time, meaning Mac and Linux users will need to find their motivation elsewhere. Still, if you’re a Windows user prone to distraction you should at least give this service a try.

Features

• Beat procrastination  while working alone by letting your friends “snoop” on you.
• Uploads a screenshot of your computer to secure servers.
• Only people whom you allow can see your screen.
• Similar tools: PageAddict, xMinutesAt, ToVisitOrNot, StayFocusd, MinutesPlease and KeepMeOut.

Check out SnoopOn.Me @ www.snoopon.me (via Lifehacker)