I use headphones all the time, both earbuds and headsets alike, since they let me listen to music without others hearing.
I too use headphones from time to time. It helps me shout off the rest of the world.
So many people use headphones nowadays, or what some people call earspeakers, earphones, or even cans!
Yes, I have noticed what seems to be a larger number of people wearing them in public. I wonder why?
'around the ear') and supra-aural ('over the ear') headphones use a band over the top of the head to hold the speakers in place. Another type, known as earbuds or earpieces consist of individual units that plug into the user's ear canal. A third type are bone conduction headphones, which typically wrap around the back of the head and rest in front of the ear canal, leaving the ear canal open. 
In the context of telecommunication, a headset is a combination of
Headphones
Headphones (or head-phones in the early days of telephony and radio) traditionally refer to a pair of small loudspeaker drivers worn on or around the head over a user's ears. They are electroacoustic transducers, which convert an electrical signal to a corresponding sound. Headphones let a single user listen to an audio source privately, in contrast to a loudspeaker, which emits sound into the open air for anyone nearby to hear. Headphones are also known as earspeakers, earphones or, colloquially, cans. Circumaural (