Communications Major

Cell phones in the toilet, foul balls to the chest, new uses for old payphones, that annoying Gotye song, a Silicon Valley reality show and light up prayer mats that let you know you're facing Mecca. We don't make this stuff up. Find out what people are talking about online this week and join the conversation, preferably from somewhere else besides a toilet seat.

According to this infographic, there are more active cell phones in the US than people. Some 25% of cell phone users have sent a text while having sex, 75% use their phones for texting or talking while driving. And these are just a few of the stats we'll reveal before we get to how many people use their phones while in the bathroom. Heck, 20% of us admit to having dropped our cell phone in the toilet! If you think our cell phone manners are bad in general, guess what? They're even worse than you think!

As Americans’ modes of communication change, the techniques that produce the most accurate polls seem to be changing as well.

Ah, the sadness that is the nearly obsolete payphone. What to do with all those broken down shells encasing what once took a nickel, dime and eventually two bits to reach your lifeline when your car broke down, you just arrived in town or (channeling Don Draper and the other Mad Men) met a cutie in a cocktail lounge and needed to let your wife know you wouldn't be home for dinner? It's not like you used to go around with your own personl phone in your pocket. But now you do. It's hardly rocket science, but it looks like New York City has a solution for unsighlty and little used payphone kiosks. Turn them into Wi-Fi hotspots!

Law enforcement tracking of cellphones is a convenient surveillance tool in many situations, but it is unclear if using such technology without a warrant violates the Constitution.