Are headphones falling out of fashion?

[TheBeesKnee]

I've always seen children watching phones without headphones. And teenagers. Recently I've seen adults doing this too; just now on the bus a middle aged woman was watching a long YouTube video with the volume up and without headphones.

If this a thing happening everywhere or do I just live among delinquents? 🤣

Well if you live among delinquents then I do too! It's very common round here (Middx/London border) and it drives me spare. I don't know how or when it became socially acceptable. People just believe they're the centres of their own little universes. I think people see others do it and think that it must be ok, so they'll do it too. 😡

I think it's happening everywhere. It's the height of rudeness.

I think there needs to be a push to make this socially unacceptable. Plenty of things don't happen very often now because it's become socially unacceptable. I just don't know how it gets started to make it so

Yes it's definitely crept up and I'm not sure when it happened! I'm in South London so we may well be neighbours.

Its harder to get headphones that fit your phones now. Wireless headphones need charging and are always getting lost.

It's nothing to do with fashion - it's just plain lack of manners and total selfishness

My kids and all their friends have AirPods which seem to be permanently in at least one ear even when chatting to each other, so they don’t seem to be going out of fashion here. I don’t mind people not using them though as long as it’s not really loud. I’ve only come across one elderly man who was watching something on high volume on a train, I can only assume he didn’t have the best hearing. Some people seem very sensitive phone noise but it doesn’t bother me at all low volume anymore than people chatting.

Drives me bonkers. There's a special place in hell for people playing things out loud.

I hope not! It's always the mark of A Bad Day when I realise I've left the house without mine (and then go music-less all day, because I'm not a psycho who plays stuff out pound in public!)

This absolutely boils my piss (listening to someone else’s phone on loudspeaker).

I was on a train recently and a girl sat down beside me and starting listening to a tic toc video on full volume. I very politely asked her if she could pop some headphones in. She looked at me and said ‘you’re weird’.

Having a coffee last week - a child was on the table next to me watching Peppa Pig on full blast.

I was in Sainsbury’s today and a girl was walking around having a video call on loudspeaker walking around like a ‘Kardashian’.

I think since Covid there’s been a huge sense of self entitlement and lack of consideration for others.

Its rude and self entitled and no one else wants to listen to your noise pollution.

I travelled for 20 years in the tube to work and you always wore headphones. Now you have to wear the. Yo block out someone else’s noise.

I’m just back from Japan - where everyone was so polite and considerate to everyone and you absolutely did not hear any phones being used in loudspeaker.

We could learn a lot….