Three good reasons

Why you shouldn’t take your cell phone to the toilet

The smartphone has become a constant companion for most of us, and we don't even want to miss its company on the toilet anymore. But there are several good and important reasons why the cell phone has no place in the restroom.

For 42 percent of Austrians, it's part of going to the porcelain throne: the cell phone. According to a YouGov survey published at the end of April on behalf of the online retailer Galaxus, younger people and men in particular use it to pass the time - above all by consuming social media (67 percent) or messages (40 percent), chatting (37 percent), reading and writing e-mails (33 percent) or playing mobile games (30 percent). But there are good reasons to leave the cell phone out of the really important and urgent business of the day.