Why in the world would I bring the phone in the shower?
I do it all the time. Before smart phones were a thing I had a water proof shower radio. Now I use the phone for the same thing. Mostly listening to news or a podcast or something. Sometime it’s a Nebula video, but in the shower I’d just be listening to it like a podcast anyway. Before phones were waterproof I used to use a waterproof Bluetooth speaker.
I’ve never had steam cause a problem, but then again my showers aren’t long, aren’t very hot and my phone is kept pretty high up and out of the way.
my showers aren’t long
So, why… oh, forget it.
Everyone uses their phones while eating or pooping. Those activities don’t take long either. I choose to listen to something while showering.
It’s ok if you don’t understand it or do it yourself, but some people take their phone into the shower. It is a thing.
Everyone uses their phones while eating or pooping.
We do??
You can get a waterproof Bluetooth speaker pretty cheap. Better sound and zero risk of anything happening to the phone. I love mine.
To shave your butthole via camera
How else am I going to clean the phone after using it while I shit? That’s dirty
Next you’ll be telling me I should use a bidet instead of cleaning my ass with the shower wand.
Why not? (The article says steam is a problem, so cold showers are alright)
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Came here to say just that. I’m a grown ass man, I just take me in the showed.
Probably the same people who drink beer in their shower.
Wait, are the !showerthoughts@lemmy.world people really posting from the shower?!
I don’t think so, people have shower thoughts when they are away from phone
“They are showering us with their refined thoughts”
I didn’t know people did that
WHO USES THEIR PHONE IN THE SHOWER
Same people who use their phone in the car
You don’t watch YouTube while scrubbing down with sudds??
I will set some music, but I also don’t have a humidity problem in my bathroom.
I’ve been doing this for around 10 years, have very hot, steamy showers and never had a problem 🤷
Started with the Samsung Galaxy S7, one of the earlier water resistant phones, and I’ve been doing it ever since, across maybe 5 phones, almost every day. You’ll be fine. If you are worried about drops, just use a decent case.
As for why, others have said, it’s to keep listening to my YouTube video essays and similar. Stuff that doesn’t need to be seen to be appreciated.
ok, who is doing this?
I have brought my phone into the bathroom (not shower) exactly twice, in my entire life… and both times it was because I was expecting a vitally important call, and could not wait for the call to come before getting in the shower.
I can not imagine the necessity of regularly taking your phone into the goddamn shower itself
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What in the boomer is this comment.
It is pretty amazing to me that some people really have to be told not to bring their expensive electronics into the shower. It’s the shower, just wash your dirty ass and get out.
Tbf, since I have done this some 2-3 times:
Some special shampoos require you to be sitting there for like 10 minutes until it does its thing. I thought it was safe since water was no longer coming out of the shower, I didn’t consider the high humidity environment.
‘special shampoo’
is that your code for jackin’ it in the shower?
Feels so awkward to jack off in the shower. I much prefer doing it sitting in the toilet.
When I say special shampoo I mean it. Like the one time my dog got fleas so I used anti-flea dog shampoo just in case. It took forever.
In the actual shower, where the water is? Who does that?
Me. I have a phone mount installed in the shower. I need my dopamine receptors to be constantly stimulated from artificial sources, or I can’t accomplish basic tasks like cleaning/showering/cooking. Executive Dysfunction is a bitch.
People with normal dopamine levels just can’t relate, so I get a lot of flack and am often called lazy. Which is annoying as hell because I genuinely want to be a functioning adult, but my stubborn brain just refuses to let me accomplish anything without external stimulation. It’s torture being labeled something you’re not, just because someone can’t understand what it’s like when your brain won’t make the reward chemicals on its own. But it is what it is.
Also BTW I’ve been doing this for a decade and only once has a phone actually died on me from water damage. So I don’t worry about it. I’m clumsy so I always have an insurance plan for my phones regardless…
I do, setting it in the corner makes the acoustics great for playing music
I like to do some business calls under the shower.
You have showers with water?
There is two people in this thread
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people who read “bringing your phone in the shower” as having the phone in the same room as the shower.
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everyone else who seems to think that people are putting their phones directly under the shower nozzle.
Really poor wording on this article. Most people don’t think “bringing your phone into the shower,” means “leave your phone in the bathroom while you take a shower.”
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I thought they meant in the bathroom while you shower but people have their phone IN the shower!?
Sad, that the recommendation is “use Bluetooth speakers instead, which are more expendable” instead of “are safe to use”.
Fucking Christ, so phone fiends can’t even take 2-5 minutes to wash themselves with out getting their stimulation?
Civilization can’t survive this.
If you can’t take a bath without your phone you might have a problem.
Maybe some of y’all shower too long.
This thread is a great reminder that Lemmy users do not represent the general public. I put a phone mount in the shower so I don’t have to pause a podcast or whatever to take a shower, it’s nice. I don’t really love showers and struggle to stop what I’m doing to change direction, so it’s one less barrier to entry. My partner and some friends who have used my shower have also appreciated it.
Well according to lemmy you are a phone addicted psychopath
That’s me. Hell, you wouldn’t believe this, but I’m on Lemmy on my phone as I type this.
