AirPods, Galaxy Buds, True Buds, TWS earphones or whatever you want to call them: it’s pure metonymy. Those disconnected headphones that have become so popular in recent years and that we sometimes use so naturally that we forget we’re wearing them at the end. leading to awkward situations. Like when we start a conversation with someone without taking off our headphones.

At this point, there are more scenarios that are more or less familiar to us but can still be improved. at least if we’re worried about not looking like edges or as people who are very unaware of reality because of AirPods.

When you go to talk to a person, take them out

Both of them. Talking to someone who covers their ears with headphones is excessive, conveying an asymmetrical relationship in which one person is interested in listening to the other but the second is not.

You can only remove one if it’s a specific query.

Especially if it’s going to be a conversation beyond just a short consultation, “hey, do they sell?” flash drives?”. In this case, you can remove one.

If the call might take longer, keep them in their holsters.

A short dialogue can be resolved by holding the headset in hand. Going further, holding them on can be seen as a gesture of desire to wear them again and thus to end the conversation.

Don’t ask someone to listen to something on your cell phone

Sharing a headset like this is a pretty intimate thing. It is not normal for a person to want to plug someone’s ear to his ear, and it is not normal for him to want to give his own ear. Only for highly trusted people.

Use them to subtly indicate your availability

When we are with other people in an environment such as an office or home, especially if we are working in the latter situation, AirPods can be used to send a passive message to others.

Using both is equivalent to focusing and not suitable for interruptions. Use only one to be working but willing to be interrupted.

If no sound comes out, remove them

Keeping them in our ears for no reason is not only awkward, but it can also make us forget that they are there and even unconsciously go out with them or interact with other people who would be surprised to see we’re talking to them without speaking to them. them closed.

Think twice if you’re going to use them when you’re with other people.

Whatever the context: it’s not clear that you have a reason to use them, such as answering a call, listening to a private voicemail, or going to work; Wearing headphones when with other people expresses indifference and contempt.

Check the volume if someone can talk to you

Being with other people and having someone talk to you isn’t the most constructive thing either… and you don’t even listen to them because the sound of the headphones gets in the way. We do not give up being together, even if each of them works for him.

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While driving, at a face-to-face meeting, at a wedding or funeral. There are simple situations where no adult should wear headphones in their ears. And, of course, understanding what they are without having to have someone write them down.

Do you think this is just a collection of facts? Well, I can assure you that the writer of these lines has seen almost everything and I can post it here.

Exceptional view: jackson boil Y Tarun Bilgili on Unsplash.