Study Finds 48% Of Australians Use Their Phone On The Toilet

10:19AM January 19, 2009 | Nick Broughall

A Microsoft survey has found that 48% of Australians will admit to using their phone while on the toilet, while 66% of Chinese people admit to the same thing. The real question here is who the hell actually admits to that kind of thing?The survey asked 2500 people across the Asia Pacific region questions about their mobile phone habits. Other discoveries are that 24% of men believe it’s perfectly acceptable to propose over the phone (I wonder how many women said yes), and people from Melbourne are more likely to go through a partner’s text messages than people in Sydney.

Obviously, as with any statistics, the numbers can be made to argue pretty much any point, but I just can’t understand why anyone would actually confess to being a toilet talker. Isn’t that the kind of information you’d want to keep out of the hands of a large company like Microsoft?

On the up side though, maybe we’ll start seeing MS-branded Bluetooth handsfree kits especially designed to attach to your toilet roll holder. Actually, that’s not a bad idea. Hey Microsoft, I’ll use my phone on the toilet too if it means I can get a prototype of one of these…

[AAP via News.com.au]

Comments

Andy

January 19, 2009 at 11:01 AM

Guilty. =]

Dean

January 19, 2009 at 12:42 PM

Eh, I use mine in there! Although not for voice calls… that’s just too gross.

Toastie

January 19, 2009 at 12:47 PM

Yeah man i regularly do the bog&chat…i just dont do it with important calls.

Steve

January 19, 2009 at 12:50 PM

I’ll admit to using my iPhone to browse the internet while on the toilet, but I would never use it to actually contact someone.

poedgirl

January 19, 2009 at 1:01 PM

I know this comment is a bit off topic, but what the hell is with the retarded Valkyrie ads on the front pages of Giz AU and Lifehacker AU? I mean Lifehacker especially should know better than to use stupid web design tactics like changing the cursor, not to mention you can’t read the text at all until the page is entirely loaded. I don’t mind advertising, but this is just over the top and this kind of thing just makes me want to only use the US versions of these sites and not bother with the AU versions.

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