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I thought it was funny your comment about people not talking any more. This is very true! It's very strange if someone talks on the bus or tube/metro in london... maybe it always was, but it's easy to blame the ear-pod machines.

When I travelled, I took a personal CD player with me, and my friend took a pod-style mp3 player. The only time we made use of them was on the planes. There were many times we wanted to listen to music, but also wanted to talk. We tried to find some small speakers to jack in so we could create background noise, hear music without being antisocial. We even tried using doors, a guitar's soundboard etc. to amplify the noise from the headphones (a futile project).

The only time we found a use for these was in the bar/ resteraunt/ lounge of the place we stayed in Palolem, where they would let people jack their music players into the sound system, and some of the other guests did this as well.

I suppose perhaps we were odd in actually wanting to talk to each other still after living in the same space for 5 weeks, but using these things with headphones just seems antisocial to me.

But I do use in London, hehe