WHY MUST YOU TAKE YOUR PHONE IN THE SHOWER?

Okay.

I love my phone.

This is common knowledge. I am a teen of the 21st century and I am used to being surrounded with group chats, Instagram posts, and snapchat stories.

 

#blessed

HOWEVER,

I would like to think that I know where to draw the line,

Because there definitely is one.

And these people who took this survey do not know where it is.

From this survey of 7,112 cell phone users, (from Britain, Spain, China, Brazil, Mexico, United States and India) a shocking 60% admitted to sleeping WHILE HOLDING THEIR HANDSETS.

(India had the highest with 74% while China had 70%)

I repeat.

SLEEPING WHILE HOLDING THEIR HANDSETS.

Can someone please explain this to me? 

There is nothing you can do on your phone while you're sleeping. It's not like you need to keep liking photos and statuses while you're unconscious!

This is what you look like, and you look ridiculous. (Why is he wearing a dress shirt and tie???)

Whether it's because they feel a sense of security while holding their phones or not, the idea of sleeping with our phones is absurd and that is coming from a phone-obsessed teen.

But apparently sleeping while literally having our phones in our grasp is not enough, because there is also using your phone on the toilet (57%, the highest coming from China and Brazil) 

China, what you doin'? 

But to me, even the toilet one isn't that weird.

In this day and age, if there is no possible harm to happen to our precious babies of plastic, we will take them ANYWHERE. We cannot be bored. We're physically incapable.

And even though the sleeping one is crazy and the toilet is expected, this last one has to be the most insane to me.

People taking their PHONES into the SHOWER.

I don't know about you, but that doesn't make any sense to me.

Here's why.

But that's just me!

I assumed that water and phones would not fix, just making our lives that much more complicated. I hear about people putting their phones in PLASTIC BAGS so they can watch Netflix. But how is having your $300 phone in a ZIPLOC a comforting feeling? 

"Oh yeah, I could easily rip it open with my fingernail, so nothing will happen in the WATER of the shower!"

I hope you've noticed my choice of uppercasing certain words for some extreme emphasis, and that you're reading it in my exceptionally sassy and flaberghasted tone.

Even though I would NEVER risk bringing my phone into the shower, it did not stop these twitter users.

Yes, it is. At least he realizes it. 

"The first step to getting over a problem is admitting you have a problem"

Danni Lunsford, please tell me, was that worth it? #PROBABLYNOT

Mauricio C. Beltran may have put a "lol" on the end, 

but trust me when I say he is crying on the inside.

All joking aside, having the statistic of 1/6 cell phone users bringing their phone in the shower and some of the other statistics like 54% saying they would reach for their phone before saving their CAT from a fire.

I'm sorry, I must have read that wrong.

54% would choose their PRECIOUS piece of plastic over a living thing?

(Please pick up on the "precious" pun I made, since I used Gollum. Get it? Precious, with Gollum. Okay.)

If any statistic can summarize our problem as a society, that is it.

It is not like 20% said that they would choose their phone over the cat, it was a majority! And is this an accurate portrayal of every phone user? No, of course not for it was only a survey with a sample size of just over 7,000.

But from this article, they are showing and saying how crazy we are when it comes to our phones. We have become so dependent on them that even taking a shower with their absence seems impossible. The statistics are just numbers, but they are numbers with value because of what they mean. They show our shocking habits, which are consistent globally. With this survey, we can see the information right before our eyes.

We are addicted to our phones and continually rely on them day by day. 

But if you choose your phone over your cat, I'm sorry, but we can't be friends.