Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, July 22nd. I'm Patrick Coffey for the Wall Street Journal.

Airbnb wants you to add some extra services to your vacation or business trip, like a private chef, a personal trainer or a professional photographer.

One problem, this might come as a

surprise to your unwitting host. Plus, everybody knows that it's rude to speak to someone while

wearing headphones, right? Apparently, that's no longer the case if they're AirPods. But first,

it's hard to have a real conversation with someone when they keep staring at their iPhone.

But what if they're wearing AirPods?

Julia Carpenter spoke to WSJ reporter Lauren Weber about why this common annoyance is inching closer to becoming an accepted behavior.

Lauren, the old rules say that people should remove earbuds when working a job or checking

out at the grocery store or otherwise engaged in conversation, but you report that all

of that is changing.

Why is it that we used to think of this as rude behavior?

There was always an assumption that when you were talking to

someone or dealing with them in some manner, you had their full attention. All the conversations

I had with people about this once I started reporting was around this question of distraction

and attention. That's the piece that's changed. And why is it that people now mind that less?

They don't mind the perception that they have less than someone's full attention. It's one of those

interesting examples about how conventions change and social norms. So at this point,

it's not uncommon to see somebody wearing their AirPods all day.

I'll just use AirPods as my shorthand for any kind of earbuds.

This started to change, I really think, when they became wireless.

So it was just really easy to park them in your ear and forget about them.

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