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Re: The AirPods Effect

#31

Post by walrus01 »

nozzlegear wrote: post #26
MBlume wrote: post #2

I'd much rather be surrounded by people wearing earbuds than have people watching tiktoks through their phone speakers on the subway

That just sounds like another version of what the author is talking about: using [device] to avoid human interaction.

In a really big and busy city it's emotionally exhausting and not reasonable to have an interaction with everyone near you. The only way a lot of people can tolerate being packed into busy public transit systems on a daily basis is to intentionally ignore each other to a certain degree.

It's essentially the same unspoken etiquette rule as what you're socially expected to do if riding a crowded elevator.

Go commute by NYC subway 10 times a week, M-F especially during peak tourist season and you'll understand.

I intentionally behave completely different if I'm in a small town of 3000 people or walking down the street, shopping, riding transit in a large city.

Re: The AirPods Effect

#32

Post by jvican »

ActorNightly wrote: post #24

> Americans are speaking to one another far less than they used to. According to that study, the number of spoken words uttered by the average person fell by 28% between 2005 and 2019. Each year during that time period, the number of words people spoke in an average day declined. I wonder what the difference is between this, and culture in EU where small talk isn't really a thing.

The EU is large and most importantly very diverse. Pretty much all the West and South of Europe has a very strong small talk culture. You shall not stereotype a country, and even less so a political and economical union of countries.

Re: The AirPods Effect

#34

Post by tcoff91 »

walrus01 wrote: post #31
nozzlegear wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That just sounds like another version of what the author is talking about: using [device] to avoid human interaction.

In a really big and busy city it's emotionally exhausting and not reasonable to have an interaction with everyone near you. The only way a lot of people can tolerate being packed into busy public transit systems on a daily basis is to intentionally ignore each other to a certain degree. It's essentially the same unspoken etiquette rule as what you're socially expected to do if riding a crowded elevator. Go commute by…

100 years ago they sold pocket sized books so people in cities could ignore each other by reading books.

Re: The AirPods Effect

#35

Post by walrus01 »

tcoff91 wrote: post #34
walrus01 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a really big and busy city it's emotionally exhausting and not reasonable to have an interaction with everyone near you. The only way a lot of people can tolerate being packed into busy public transit systems on a daily basis is to intentionally ignore each other to a certain degree. It's essentially the same unspoken etiquette rule as what you're socially expected to do if riding a crowded elevator. Go commute by…

100 years ago they sold pocket sized books so people in cities could ignore each other by reading books.

Also there's plenty of old timey black and white photos of people riding the LIRR or similar where everyone is holding and reading a newspaper.

Re: The AirPods Effect

#36

Post by chasd00 »

nozzlegear wrote: post #26
MBlume wrote: post #2

I'd much rather be surrounded by people wearing earbuds than have people watching tiktoks through their phone speakers on the subway

That just sounds like another version of what the author is talking about: using [device] to avoid human interaction.

The only interaction you’re missing in ops post is politely asking them to turn it down and being told very aggressively to “shut the fuck up!”.

Re: The AirPods Effect

#37

Post by inigyou »

chihuahua wrote: post #15
lorecore wrote: post #4

> People now wear their AirPods all day at the office. They keep them in while ordering and paying for things in stores and supermarkets. I wonder how people do this or if my ears are just shaped weird, because I can’t even sit totally still at my desk without them falling out.

There's a pretty big difference between AirPods and AirPods Pro. The former just sort of loosely sit in the outer part of your ear. The latter form a pretty good seal in your ear canal. That's how you get good noise cancelling with Airpods Pro. The loose fit of the regular AirPods and the wired EarPods never made any sense to me.

my $9 wired earbuds from Sony also form a good ear seal by the way. No need to buy the $250 (!) thing from Apple. Unless you don't have a headphone jack.

I've used these to sleep to podcasts or quiet music at music festivals, and they block out the music from outside pretty well. This is because of the flexible rubber seal. My wireless earbuds are hard plastic all the way around and sit (securely) in my earlobes while my wired ones actually go inside my ear canal.

Re: The AirPods Effect

#39

Post by josephg »

chihuahua wrote: post #15
lorecore wrote: post #4

> People now wear their AirPods all day at the office. They keep them in while ordering and paying for things in stores and supermarkets. I wonder how people do this or if my ears are just shaped weird, because I can’t even sit totally still at my desk without them falling out.

There's a pretty big difference between AirPods and AirPods Pro. The former just sort of loosely sit in the outer part of your ear. The latter form a pretty good seal in your ear canal. That's how you get good noise cancelling with Airpods Pro. The loose fit of the regular AirPods and the wired EarPods never made any sense to me.

Yep. The pros also come with a bunch of different silicon ear tips to fit a range of different ear canal sizes.
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