This app helps you connect with people who’re… taking a crap

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Last Updated Originally published August 22, 2015 · 9:20 AM EDT
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Connor Livingston
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If there’s a finite number of interesting app ideas that humans can come up with, I think we may be scraping the bottom of the barrel. A new iOS app known as Pooductive is meant to be used while you’re in the bathroom taking a crap and allows users to connect with other people who are taking a crap. Yeah. It’s an amusing concept to be sure, and considering how 3/4 of smartphone owners claim to use their devices while they’re on the toilet, maybe this app is on to something… or not.

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Three quarters of smartphone owners admit to using their devices while sitting on the toilet, so perhaps the only surprise is that it’s taken this long for an app to link them up to other random people also perching on the loo. Released by developer Ricardo Gruber, the free iPhone app Pooductive offers anonymous messaging, with the hook that everyone you encounter will be similarly occupied. “Think of it as a magical place where people from around the globe can anonymously meet to enjoy their time of zen, peace and quite together, by conversing, philosophising and sharing ideas with each other. You can add friends, have group chats or simply enjoy a 1 on 1 conversation… it is so much better and more entertaining then simply reading the back of a shampoo bottle.” Complete with a promotional screenshot with someone frankly sharing more information than we feel is necessary on a family website, the app is unlikely to rival messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, which have 800 million and 700 million active users respectively.

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