How Earpieces Destroy Social Interactions

• When you meet someone new on the street and you want to start a conversation, it is difficult for you to come up with anything that sounds important. Whatever you come up with would be informal and playful, and you know what that means? That means it is not worth telling someone to take off their earpiece in order to hear.

So what do you do? At the sight of an earpiece many of us decide not to talk to the person anymore, because they wouldn't hear you and you feel like it would be some type of way to make them take off their earpiece just to hear you say "what's up?" "I just wanted to say hi" or "lovely weather, isn't it?"

Informal things like that.

You might even feel like if you made them take it off after saying the lil thing you wanted to say the pressure to say more would be more so it doesn't look like they took it off just to hear you say that.

• Then there is the fact that people are fond of having earpieces on for so long and for most of their time in public, whether they're listening to something or not. Usually as far as someone is leaving the house with their earpiece they put it on their ears and leave it there until they get back home.

They usually don't put it in their bags or pockets, hold it in their hands, or anything like that. This way earpieces becomes way more effective in deterring conversations.

• Then sometimes you're someone who wants to talk to people you meet physically. You probably told yourself you were going to do more of that in your life and that you were going to do more of that today.

But you went out with your airpods and when you didn't expect it you sighted someone you'd like to talk to. Now you want to talk but you have the airpods in your ear and what you want to say is just something informal, nothing important, so you think you would seem desperate if they see you take your airpods off just to say that lil stuff you want to say 😅.

Say you're sitting in a public bus, then all of a sudden someone good looking sits next to you, but you have your airpods on. You think if they see you take it off to say something informal it would look somehow.

Sometimes you feel they might talk to you but you also feel like if you take it off and don't say anything they'll feel like you're waiting for them/expecting them to talk to you.

These things happen especially to over thinkers, which a lot of us are these days, always caring about how we would look/come across. Always being careful not to seem desperate or awkward 😅.

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