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Teens using AirPods to covertly “speak” during class

• QuercusMax 7y ago
  What is up with this article? It's like forwards-from-grandma quality writing.
• JCharante 7y ago
  Surely there's some way you can enable TTS for incoming notifications. Or like the article mentions, just text outright. I haven't heard of classrooms banning smartwatching / smartbands. Just look at your wrist to read a message...
  • pontifier 7y ago
    I think some of the appeal is probably that the listener need make no outward sign that a message has been received. There is also very little papertrail or other evidence that anything has happened, or about the content of the message. It self-destructs forever, even more securely than Snapchats ever could.
• AnonymousPlanet 7y ago
  > This week, a video has wafted around the web that may turn your head away or your stomach around. I wondered what the stomach turning part was and if I missed it. Then I read: > Isn't this behavior just a touch yucky? Personally, I don't like inserting anything into my ears. I'd be especially reluctant to shove in something that's just been inside someone else's ear. Like acquired tastes there are acquired distastes, and swapping earphones seems to be one of them. I remember us teenagers back in the 90s swapping earphones like Sony's MDR A20 all the time. This article seems less about teenagers using technology but rather the age of the author.
• Nextgrid 7y ago
  This method still requires both people to be using their phones to type so I don't get why you'd do this instead of just texting.