Look, we know you’ve taken your iPhone into the bathroom with you for number two. Everyone has. That doesn’t mean you should tell people about it. But a new app, charmingly called Pooductive, is for just that. It’s dedicated to facilitating meaningful, anonymous conversation on the toilet about… you can guess the topic.
Pooductive is the brainchild (turdchild?) of developer Ricardo Gruber: a social network for people who are pooping at exactly the same time. You can either group chat with a universe of poopers, or else be matched one-on-one with other toilet-users locally or globally. If you choose local chat, you can specify how ‘local’ you want to get: next stall, or between 0 and 250 kilometers.
Here’s how the Pooductive website describes the app:
A place of magic and wonder where people from all 7 kingdoms can meet to seek refuge and enjoy their time of zen, peace and quite together, by conversing, philosophising and sharing ideas with each other…whilst sitting on their iron thrones
The ‘best’ little touch? Outside of chatting, Pooductive will ask you to find a song that describes the quality and consistency of your poop, and broadcast it. I recommend Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot” or Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” personally.
Pooductive has had a labored delivery. Originally, the app looked for crowdsourcing help on Kickstarter, where it hoped to raise a staggering $16,000 to fund the app. At the end of the day, they got only three donations, but the app came to the App Store anyway, where it’s a free download.
Source: Pooductive
Via: Mental Floss
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
2 responses to “Number 2 on the App Store: a social network for pooping”
I wonder why people can not use the correct term rather that the political correct form. It’s called shit, shitting or feces or defecating or excrement.
There is no “correct” term, much less a “politically correct” one. There are different words invented by different people for different contexts. If you’re an attorney in a court room or doctor with a patient, you’d probably use the more formal, “feces”, “defecting” or “excrement”. If you’re a fifth grade boy, you’d make a point of saying “shit” instead of “poop” to establish that you’re no longer a baby using baby words. Everyone else on the planet is probably shaking their head at the assumption that the word “shit’ is any more correct than the word “poop”. In fact, since “shit’ has multiple meanings depending on context and intent and poop really has just one, I think it’s safe to say that the opposite is probably true.
Hypersensitivity to, or in this case purely imaginary political correctness is the new political correctness.