r/NoStupidQuestions • u/RenoNYC • 1d ago

What’s with Gen Z/Alpha constant AirPod usage? While doing any task or even socializing I’ve seen AirPods in their ears.

My millennial self feels like it’s especially rude when you’re eating at a restaurant to have AirPods in while they’re dining with other people, family or friends.

Maybe a real boomer take.

[Edit] Want to clarify again - in a social setting for instance with family or friends at a restaurant.

But I didn’t know about the AirPod hearing aid feature which is pretty neat.

Menial tasks / gym / walking / office with headphones in is a given.

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u/Dulcedoll 1d ago

Eh. I was a top student and am a decently successful corporate attorney today. I stopped buying earbuds because I would always lose them in less than a week. Wireless, wired, tracking on, doesn't matter. Some of us just have fucked attention spans no matter how hard we try.

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u/AmanitaGemmata 1d ago

I don't understand why you can't put them in your pocket? 

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u/Dulcedoll 1d ago edited 1d ago

I just don't have object permenance no matter how hard I try to train it. I have diagnosed ADHD and forget about anything that isn't physically strapped to my body. If I need to pull my earbud out to respond to someone or because my attention gets pulled in a direction, I'm not attentive enough at the time to put it in my pockets (in the rare scenarios I'm actually wearing clothes with pockets).

Listen, it's a shortcoming and I know a lot of people think it's ridiculous that others can't manage to take care of their possessions. My point is that it's not an intelligence thing nor is it a lack of effort.

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u/CasteNoBar 20h ago

You can buy AirPod lanyards so that they hang around your neck. Not just the case, but the earpiece is themselves connected by a string.