--- title: 5 Percent of People Have Checked Facebook During Sex: Durex Survey description: Is this what Zuckerberg had in mind when he created the dubious "Poke" feature? canonical: https://time.com/36197/checking-facebook-during-sex/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-25T12:45:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:07.999Z og:title: 5 Percent Of People Have Checked Facebook During Sex og:description: Not cool, guys og:url: https://time.com/36197/checking-facebook-during-sex/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54d645d0c9639c0c/69868705e53aba42b04d1a74/170199567.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Couple in bed with smartphone og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 5 Percent Of People Have Checked Facebook During Sex twitter:description: Not cool, guys twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54d645d0c9639c0c/69868705e53aba42b04d1a74/170199567.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 5 Percent Of People Have Checked Facebook During Sex, Says Survey by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 25, 2014 12:45 PM UTC  Man with phone in bed, looking at woman asleep Man with phone in bed, looking at woman asleepGetty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 25, 2014 12:45 PM UTC In today’s modern, fast-paced, hyper-connected society, multitasking is simply a necessary part of life. Stealthily checking your texts during a meeting? Fine. Checking your bank account balance while waiting in line at the grocery store? Sure! Checking Facebook during sex — wait, what? Yes, apparently people do that. According to [a survey](http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/durex-ditches-hand-helds-to-hold-hands-this-earth-hour-250973671.html) conducted for condom maker Durex, around 5 percent of people have checked their Facebook during coitus. Oh, 12 percent of respondents had answered a phone call during sex, and 10 percent had read a text. Technically, calls and texts could be relaying urgent, life-altering information, so we _guess_ that’s a little more acceptable. But Facebook? Can’t you just wait till after you’re done to find out what your co-worker’s kid ate for breakfast? Seriously, guys. We need to draw the line somewhere. ([h/t CNET](http://www.cnet.com/news/survey-finds-many-use-facebook-during-sex/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/36197/checking-facebook-during-sex/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/36197/checking-facebook-during-sex/"},"headline":"5 Percent Of People Have Checked Facebook During Sex, Says Survey","datePublished":"2014-03-25T12:45:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:07.999Z","description":"Is this what Zuckerberg had in mind when he created the dubious \"Poke\" feature?","url":"https://time.com/36197/checking-facebook-during-sex/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Smartphones","Sex","facebook","relationships","couples","iphones"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54d645d0c9639c0c/69868705e53aba42b04d1a74/170199567.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54d645d0c9639c0c/69868705e53aba42b04d1a74/170199567.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Couple in bed with smartphone","caption":"Couple in bed with smartphone","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/36197/checking-facebook-during-sex/","name":"5 Percent Of People Have Checked Facebook During Sex, Says Survey"}}]}] ```