Glasses and contacts are media that not only allow people to view messages but also act as a way to show off a message. When your vision goes, you are limited in decoding messages. For instance, watching television may be blurry causing the medium to become cool rather than hot. Furthermore, you may wear a stylish pair of glasses if you have the money and care about how you look. If you are retired and don’t go out very often, you may wear that favorite pair that you have. If it breaks, the person may even tape it up to show that they don’t really care how it looks as long as they can see. Some people do not enjoy wearing glasses either because they are less comfortable or they fear they will be seen as a nerd. These people resort to wearing contact lenses in order to hide the fact that they need vision correction. Some even use contact lenses to change their appearance. Now that there are contact lenses that change your eye color or give you cat eyes, people that may not even need contacts will wear them to give off a certain message. Someone that always wanted blue eyes can now give an artificial message about themselves that show this to others. Lastly, there are new contacts that are supposed to aid you in sports, specific ones that help athletes play sports such as baseball and golf. Nike has come out with these contact lenses to help see the ball better, possibly giving players a new advantage.
I think that sunglasses are a huge form of media. Many people wear sunglasses to make a statement about themselves and you can almost read a person's character by the type of sunglasses they wear. Glasses are definitely an interesting medium.
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