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>Consider the anxiety you feel if you need to go to the bathroom and cannot find your phone. Is this a real thing?

• JustSomeNobody 10y ago
  Depends on how long I need to be in there.
• Noseshine 10y ago
  A thread on reddit about just that very topic gained front-page visibility and a lot of "I'm actually doing this right now" comments. EDIT - I actually found it, "Reddit is probably the world's largest group of people that communicate while shitting.": https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/5dqufr/reddit_is_probably_the_worlds_largest_group_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/5dqufr/redd...
• BurningFrog 10y ago
  Bathroom time is already wasted, so it's a guilt free opportunity to check your feed. Unless you spend 5 minutes finding the phone first.
• gaius 10y ago
  People used to read newspapers while sitting on the crapper. In the 90s it wasn't uncommon to go to the bathroom in someone's house and there to be a stack of magazines on the windowsill...
• TeMPOraL 10y ago
  It is. I have a mild case for it, especially when I go for "the longer stay". But then again, the smartphone simply is that important for many of us. For me, it's a device that's always with me, second only to my own clothes. I may leave a wallet behind, but for sure I'm taking my phone with me. I don't usually think consciously why is that, but some reasons would be: - the phone is what enables telepathy; if someone wants to reach you with their thoughts over large distances, you have to have the phone with you to receive it (and to respond) - the Internet-enabled phone also lets me look up answers to random questions that pop up in my head; since the questions pop up randomly and either go away or take real estate in the brain until answered, I want to be able to answer them ASAP anywhere I am and whatever I'm doing