"Andrew Beaver, chief marketing officer for NJOY, likened smoking e-cigarettes to the early days of hands-free Bluetooth conversations: what looks strange now will soon appear normal."
Yeah, people walking around talking on bluetooth headsets still look like douche bags to me.
Possibly I can trace this back to the fact that the 1st people to start using them were mostly douche bags.....
Maybe there's something deeper about having no respect for someone who considers themselves so busy that they can't find a place to stand and have a conversation. At least if I have to over hear a bit of their tedious phone call I do it as I pass them. Rather than walking behind / in front of them for the entire conversation.
I've never really invested a lot of time in thinking about "why" I dislike it. It is just an immediate reaction.
ps: I have the same sort of reaction to people who engage in long and useless phone conversations on public transport.
Association. Most people associate constantly wearing a Bluetooth headset with douchey, self-important MBA types. There's nothing wrong with the tech per se, it just got adopted by an unpopular crowd first.
Yeah, people walking around talking on bluetooth headsets still look like douche bags to me.