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Your cellphone has 10 times more bacteria than your toilet seat

0. phoneArena posted on 30 Aug 2012, 13:06

A man in Uganda recently contracted the Ebola virus after stealing a cellphone; that is no surprise considering a report that said that the average cellphone carries ten times the amount of bacteria as a toilet seat...

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1. asulect posted on 30 Aug 2012, 13:11 3

Does that we can leave our phones on toilet seats and still safely lend them to our friends to use afterward?

19. matt1q2aw3 posted on 31 Aug 2012, 02:16 4

"Well...goodbye cellphone in the bathroom"

I prefer to keep my bathroom clean.

2. smallworld posted on 30 Aug 2012, 13:18

Seems like I read that article 5 years ago...

3. McLaren posted on 30 Aug 2012, 13:24

A door knob or a remote control is far more disgusting than a disgusting smartphone.
Jerky & yucky hooray:p

5. Aeires (unregistered) posted on 30 Aug 2012, 13:33 5

Drinking fountains are the worst.

13. Jobes posted on 30 Aug 2012, 16:37 3

False actually, don't you watch MythBusters?!?!?!?!?

4. alfiehp21 posted on 30 Aug 2012, 13:24 12 1

If only my toilet could have 4g!

6. shadowcell posted on 30 Aug 2012, 13:34 2

All I've learned from this article was that the man from Uganda should have stolen a toilet seat instead of a cell phone.

I'm not going to be obsessively wiping down my phone with anti-bacterial wipes just because I'm at risk of catching Ebola. I'm pretty sure there are other ways of me catching a virus rather than lending my cell phone to someone.

And who shares their mobile devices? It's supposed to be a personal portal of communication not your home landline.

14. Rayvelynn posted on 30 Aug 2012, 16:41

That was funny, lol

7. som posted on 30 Aug 2012, 13:41

Crazy scientist must clean his cell phone with bleach to kill germs that wipe cleaner is not going to germs.

8. Mobile-X-Pert posted on 30 Aug 2012, 13:41

Oh sh*t....I'm always playing games on the toilet.

9. dcgore posted on 30 Aug 2012, 13:51

So if i have licked my cell phone, am i safer licking...?

10. zibbyzib2000 posted on 30 Aug 2012, 13:58 2

What I learned from this article was that the professor at the University of Arizona is a weirdo.
"I see people talk on their phone on toilets"
That's super creepy o_0

11. troutsy posted on 30 Aug 2012, 14:22

I'm already excited for the follow-up article where they explain how bacteria can carry the Ebola virus!!!

12. PhoneArenaUser posted on 30 Aug 2012, 14:49

Not new topic...

15. Rayvelynn posted on 30 Aug 2012, 16:42 1

WOW,Talk about what goes around comes around, dang just goes to show stealing doesn't pay.

16. webOSlove posted on 30 Aug 2012, 18:20

I use a microfiber cloth to clean mine

18. 305Bucko posted on 30 Aug 2012, 23:37

that just spreads the germs around evenly on your phone :D

22. webOSlove posted on 31 Aug 2012, 20:31

Not really ... the fibers pick up the bacteria , germs , and smudges

17. darac posted on 30 Aug 2012, 18:22 4

People are horribly disgusting creatures.
I clean my phones regularly since my first one 9 years ago.
Why is common sense so uncommon?

20. troutsy posted on 31 Aug 2012, 08:11 3

Common sense is, "The likelihood of bacteria on your own phone killing you is on the order in 1 in billions."

Good luck in your plastic bubble.

21. eyad_996 posted on 31 Aug 2012, 15:34

But I get bored in the bathroom!!!

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