NordVPN surveyed residents of countries including the US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, France, Poland, Netherlands, Spain, and Lithuania on this issue . What did the results show?

Overall, 65% of respondents admitted to taking and using a smartphone to go to the bathroom (a total of 9,800 respondents were surveyed). The Spaniards turned out to be the most “attached” to the telephone. This was the opinion of 80% of respondents, with 42% admitting that they do it often and 12% that they do it occasionally.

Second place was taken by the Poles. 72.9% of respondents admitted that they take their smartphone with them to the bathroom and use it there. The next place, third, went to the United States.

In the group surveyed, only the Germans were reserved – only 54%. uses a smartphone when using the toilet. In this group, 37% of respondents categorically say they never do.

The group that showed the greatest attachment to the smartphone under these circumstances was millennials, i.e. people between the ages of 26 and 41. Gen Z (18-25) came in second.

And what do we watch in the toilet? Respondents mentioned social media first, but some also read books or news on the net, and a sizable group took to gaming. According to the authors of the study, Americans and Poles were found to be the most sociable, because they sent the most messages or called their friends. Germans and Australians, on the other hand, prefer to use their time to plan their day.

And one more question: Who had the most accidents in the bathroom, i.e. which smartphone fell into the toilet the most often? It turns out that the unluckiest were the Americans and the Lithuanians.

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Is it a good idea to take your smartphone to the toilet?

This question was posed by Washington Post reporter Nir Eyal, a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, bioethicist and author of books on human behavior.

– There are two kinds of people in the world. It’s the people who use the phone in the bathroom and the people who lie about it, the pundit began jokingly, but the case seems as old as the hills. It’s just that we used to take newspapers or books to the bathroom, and now we take gadgets that keep us in touch with the world.

The paper’s second caller was Dr. Roshini Raj, a gastroenterologist at NYU Langone and author of “Gut Renovation,” a book on digestive health. there’s nothing wrong with taking a smartphone to the toilet, as long as you don’t spend more than 10 minutes there. It has to do with need issues.

The first is the risk of occurrence hemorrhoids (which, by the way, also endangers people who read newspapers sitting on the toilet for too long), if we prolong our stay in the toilet. It can be caused by constant, long-term pressure on the veins in the anal area.

The second problem is of a more “psychological” nature. Well, sitting on the toilet and thinking about something completely different, we ignore the signals sent by the intestines, and it can become a cause of constipation. “Sitting on the toilet for a long time and doing nothing can make it more difficult for feces to move through the intestines,” says a gastroenterologist.

The final argument against is pretty obvious: millions of fecal bacteria can land on a smartphonethat splash all over the bathroom when we open the toilet. At the end, we are reminded to wash our hands thoroughly before leaving the bathroom.

– But let’s not exaggerate with the reminder of the habit of taking a smartphone to the toilet. (…) There is nothing wrong with taking a gadget to the bathroom for a few minutes and doing business, then leaving, concludes Nir Eyal. As long as you don’t forget to wash your hands.

Sources: nordvpn.com,washingtonpost.com