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That was also a time when it was rude generally rude to have earbuds in when interacting with people, meetings needed to be done face to face, and having anythi
by makeitdouble 3y ago
That was also a time when it was rude generally rude to have earbuds in when interacting with people, meetings needed to be done face to face, and having anything covering you face was just viscerally rejected by a chunk of the population.
The consensus has changed a lot in the meantime, or at least you'll find your group that doesn't care about any of that.
- shafyy 3y agoI still think it's rude to not remove your earbuds when talking to people. I even feel that way when people don't remove their AirPods when they quickly interact with the person working at the check-out counter in the grocery store. It's kind of degrading.
- makeitdouble 3y agoI kinda saw the point a decade or two ago. As of today we have transparency mode where the person might actually hear you better with the buds on, then bone conduction where putting or removing them makes no sense, then ear cuff types etc. It's just so much more complex that having someone remove whatever they're wearing feels like an anachronism. It can still be a nice gesture, but as it becomes devoid of meaning it's also to me signaling that we don't trust the other person to understand they have our attention (through eye contact, actual conversation etc) if we don't overdo it.
- currymj 3y agoarguably there is not so much difference between AirPods in transparency mode and a hearing aid these days. i share your feeling and remove earbuds. but it’s starting to feel like taking your hat off — purely symbolic gesture.