--- title: Social Media Habits: Young People Frequently Tweet From the Bathroom description: On the REGULAR. canonical: https://time.com/7185/study-young-people-love-to-tweet-from-the-toilet/ author: Kate Knibbs article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-02-12T18:02:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:10.296Z og:title: Social Media Habits: Young People Frequently Tweet From the Bathroom og:description: On the REGULAR. og:url: https://time.com/7185/study-young-people-love-to-tweet-from-the-toilet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte6228143037a2d23/698682a13bc9991af71a206c/toilet-bowl1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1400 og:image:height: 788 og:image:alt: toilet-bowl1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Social Media Habits: Young People Frequently Tweet From the Bathroom twitter:description: On the REGULAR. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte6228143037a2d23/698682a13bc9991af71a206c/toilet-bowl1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Study: Young People Love to Tweet From the Toilet > Sponsored content. 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According to [a report by Nielson](http://betabeat.com/2014/02/40-of-young-adults-admitted-to-using-twitter-on-the-toilet-rest-are-lying/), 40 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds admitted to using social media in the washroom, compared with 21 percent of respondents on average. Younglings are ‘liking’ from the loo with less shame than older social media users. And if that’s the number of people who admit to this type of behavior, imagine how many people are _actually_ doing it. The report looked at other social media behavior and found that 44 percent of young adults aged 25 to 34 admit to using social media in restaurants, so while the college-aged set presses ‘publish’ while pooping, their older counterparts are doing something worse: Instagramming their food. And 48 percent of mothers with children under 13 admitted that they use social media in the car, just in case you needed another reason to buckle up. Of all the social media sins one can commit, communicating from the commode is positively benign. Sure, it’s gross to imagine people updating their social media while hunched over on the john, but is it not preferable to overusing hashtags or re-posting tired memes? 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