[recursive]

It indicates whether you would be interrupting if you tried to talk to them.

[philsnow]

Interrupting what, music? I sometimes wear headphones without listening to music because I don't want my train of thought to be interrupted.

[sambazi]

> I sometimes wear headphones without listening to music because I don't want my train of thought to be interrupted.

totally understandable as the "right to be left alone" or privacy is essential but undeniably curtailed when in public.

i hope you can appreciate the collective imperative here and acknowledge that it would be super fucked up if everyone would be wearing headphones in public.

[cozzyd]

music, a telecon, who knows...

[sambazi]

...or be heard

it's just fucking with social interaction; maybe that's the point