This is true! You see, according to a new survey about life’s necessities, people with bladders far stronger and larger than mine would rather have Facebook in their lives than a toilet. Take that, overrated excretory system!
Facebook, on the other hand, has Zynga games and opportunities for hooking up with high school chums and, well, many other things that are apparently much more important than voiding bowels or healthy kidneys.
All is not lost on today’s youth, however, as the Sun and three other things actually placed before Facebook on the London Science Museum’s 3,000-person survey of “things you cannot live without.” Internet was second, followed curiously by that life-giving elixir known as “water” and a refrigerator (where, we must assume, people are storing jars of excrement so they don’t stink up the place?).
If any of the seemingly immortal survey-takers out there want to comment on their superhuman Facebook-enabled powers, please give us a ping. [Daily Mail via CNET]
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Dan Miller
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 10:27 AMReally, people put Facebook as a thing they can’t live with out? That’s just sad.
Darren
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 11:28 AMI cant do without Facebook ON the toilet….
ben
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 12:37 PMI just find this sad. I closed my facebook account months ago and its the best thing I ever did. It is depressing sitting in a lecture at university and all these losers troll through facebook for 2 hours.
EckyThump
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 1:06 PMYou know, that part of Matrix where we were all hooked up to a massive artificial reality program,… I think that may be our fate afterall! Unless of course, we’re already there! #{
Steve
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 3:12 PMI have a Facebook account, but only really check messages sent to me and to accept or decline event invitations.
These people really should be locked in a house with no toilet, but ample Wi-Fi for a week. Then we’ll see if their answers change when the place is opened and they’re knee-deep in poo.
MotorMouth
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 6:46 PMHey Jack, you do realise that you don’t need a toilet in order to go to the toilet, right? I take a whizz off the end of the marina all the time and have never been averse to watering someone’s hedge or shrubbery. Crapping without a crapper is slightly more annoying but just as doable, as long as you remember to bring some bog roll with you.
OTOH, having a life clearly requires Facebook, or so I am led to believe.
paul
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 7:03 PMI dont know about the accuracy of this survey, how can the internet be second, i remember when msn was really hot, but now every one uses facebook chat . facebook isnt that great thumbs up if you agree
Otacon
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 12:32 AMThis isn’t youtube. I will ‘thumbs down’ your comment as I don’t agree.
Aliasalpha
Monday, September 12, 2011 at 9:31 PMDoes the study list the names and addresses of those people so I can give their presumably stinky houses a wide berth?
Otacon
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 12:33 AM+1.
Otacon
Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 12:35 AMSun then water.
Deb
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 12:35 PMIt’s kind of sad that people value facebook over things such as toilets, just goes to show how pampered we are and how we take things for granted such as hygiene and health. I mean just imagine not having a toilet at all, and no one around you having one either, all the diseases and the mess and the effort that would have to take place just to take care of your normal bodily functions.