The Bathroom Is No Place For Your Phone

Stop Bringing Your Phone to the Bathroom

- LifeHacker

There are lots of reasons to keep your phone out of the bathroom, but protecting your phone from germs or potential falls into the toilet are secondary—though, yes, stop putting your phone in your back pocket, that’s dangerous. But the real reason to leave your phone out of the bathroom is mindfulness.

My wife has dropped her phone twice in the bowl!

For as long as there have been toilets, there have been the things we read while we sit on them—books, crossword puzzles, the backs of shampoo bottles. Distracting yourself while you’re on the toilet isn’t new to our hyper-connected digital age.

But bringing your phone into the bathroom—to read, scroll Twitter, or play Two Dots or whatever—means something different when you’re bringing your phone with you everywhere else, too. It’s not news that it’s good for our brains to have some downtime. Just a few minutes here or there where we’re not taking in information or stimulation can give you an important break, a chance to see what’s happening in your own mind.

Don't Take Your Phone To The Bathroom, Because Gross

- HuffingtonPost

Is your Instagram selfie so awesome that you have to check how many likes it has while you're sitting on the toilet?

We're guessing it just isn't worth it. Using your phone in the bathroom can spread serious illnesses, and the problem is only becoming worse as people use handheld devices more and more, says Canadian germ expert and Huffington Post blogger Jason Tetro.

"Anything that you intend on taking out with you, into the environment, probably shouldn't be accompanying you into the bathroom," he told The Huffington Post Canada.

"That goes for electronic devices, that goes for food, and that also goes for anything that you might be sharing with people."

There's a place and time for everything

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