Pooductive: This app lets you chat with people sitting on the toilet at the same time as you

A 2012 survey had revealed that approximately 75 percent of people use their mobile phones to text, email, play games and surf the web while on the toilet. Thus, it’s no surprise that now there’s an app that lets you chat and play games with people who’re in the bathroom at the same time as you.

Yes, you heard us right.

The app Pooductive, available on Android and iPhone aims to be the new social network for people bored on the toilet and who are looking to interact with local and global people in the same ‘position’ as them, making it a much more ‘fulfilling’ experience than reading the back of a shampoo bottle or playing an odd game.

“The overwhelming, unbearable, nay alienating boredom that we are all confronted with once a day (more or less) is an experience that each one of us can identify with. The fact that there is only little to do whilst tending to ‘number two’ is common knowledge, and truly a first world problem. Hence, we give you... Pooductive! Think of it as a magical place where people from around the globe can anonymously meet to enjoy their time of zen, peace and tranquility together, by conversing, philosophising and playing games against each other. You can add friends, have group chats or simply enjoy a 1 on 1 conversation,” say the app’s makers on Google Play Store.

Pooductive works by connecting strangers anonymously for one-to-one or group chats, or to play simple games like noughts and crosses against one another.

The app which had over 70,000 people using it by September was initially launched by two student developers on August this year and was re-launched with a wider campaign on November 19 (World Toilet Day) in partnership with UN-Water, the United Nations body focused on sanitation issues.

Apart from being a one of a kind community, the app also aims to raise awareness about the 2.4 billion people in the world who do not have access to improved sanitation and clean water.