seriously, it’s like someone will be wearing giant, perfectly visible over-ear headphones and someone else will start chattering away, then act offended when the person wearing headphones ignores them. i don’t get it
seriously, it’s like someone will be wearing giant, perfectly visible over-ear headphones and someone else will start chattering away, then act offended when the person wearing headphones ignores them. i don’t get it
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Because they often can hear them.
Headphones do not automatically block out all noise.
I think they don’t think or care. They just want to speak and be heard and noticed
This is so annoying I hate when people do this like clearly I don’t wanna talk to anyone right now
Most headphones don’t actually block out sound, even noise canceling works off patterns not ad-hoc noise like someone talking. If your volume is at a reasonable healthy level, you should be able to hear people talking to you, at some extent.
If you can’t hear them at all you’re only providing long term damage to your ears. Most people blow it off and don’t care, then wonder why they have to use subtitles to watch TV when they’re only in their 30’s or 40’s.
In my experience, when men talk to me when I’m clearly wearing headphones, it’s either because they’re so oblivious that they don’t even notice they’re there OR they see them and don’t care because they feel entitled to my attention and interrupting.
My mother and wife. Who both react dramatically when I take them off and ask them why would they think I could hear them? Now I just ignore them.
Related: why do people wearing headphones think nobody else can hear them when they sing along to music that only they can hear?
If I have in both headphones and someone talks to me, I will either not look at them like I don’t notice, or hold eye contact so they know I am aware they are speaking to me but I am busy and they’re interrupting me time
This has bothered me today.
Been sitting outside with family the whole day, they don’t say a word. The moment i put my headphones they start talking to me.
Did this the other day. Didn’t notice the headphones & I should have.
There are certain people who expect you to drop everything you’re doing and make pointless small talk with them so they feel less alone.
well i wear headphones. don’t really use them for the music. I use them due to sensitivity to loud noises and sensitivity to scraping noises. While I do listen to music. I don’t listen to it while I’m walking. Or talking with people.
Idk, but if you’re in the gym you get one “hey are you using this” from me and if you can’t hear bc of your little headphones that’s on you. In public places it should be considered normal to expect someone to be somewhat alert to their surroundings.
Most of the time they know you can’t hear them, but they think it’s rude to be wearing them in the first place and so they feel as if they’re in the right by forcing you to take them off. It’s almost always going to be people from the generation that hates each other and hates you, but expects you to walk on eggshells around them. What else is there to do but be miserable when you’re that old right?
I typically experience the opposite. People will talk shit assuming I can’t hear them lol.
How else do you get their attention? If you touch them on the arm, they may freak out. We’re in a culture where physical contact equals assault.
A lot of headphones have hear-though features, which personally I always used when I had that kind because being out and about with no ability to hear anything going on around me was frightening. Also I use headphones because playing music out loud on the train is a dick move, not because I don’t want to be talked to.
A demand for attention.
It’s a queue to get you to take them off and listen. Often they’re also not paying attention, or they think whatever you’re hearing is not loud enough that you can’t hear them.
I assume that anyone wearing headphones in public is mentally disabled, so I don’t start conversations with them.
People these days claim they’re lonely and have no friends then proceed to do this.
Or when someone calls for your attention a bazillion times when you put headphones on. As an audio nerd, both of these things bother me to levels I shouldn’t allow, lol.
But to answer your question, it stems from entitlement. Most people today feel as though they’re entitled to your attention, and if you don’t give it to them (like they’re used to), then they react negatively. At least through my experience. It’s extremely annoying, though.
Mine have an “aware” mode so I can hear what’s going on. Not that I tell anyone, but I do have the option.
Because they aren’t thinking about you and what you have going on. They are only thinking of themselves and what they need in the moment.
If you’re around people, you shouldn’t be wearing your headphones. It’s common courtesy.
“Hi there. Yes, I could hear you, but I choose to ignore rude C8nts who interrupt me when I’m listening to my headphones.”
I feel that most times this issue is more of a problem with like anyone above the age of 35, most younger people know that you are more or less just talking to a brick wall
In their defense, in hear headphones are getting smaller and smaller. It’s possible they just didn’t notice.
That said, even with headphones on you should be paying attention once in a while to what’s going on around you using your other senses. Especially in case of an emergency.
I think a related question is why people actually engaging in conversation don’t think that keeping in their ear buds indicates they aren’t paying full attention.
Even if I can hear you I’m going to ignore you. That’s why I have headphones on.