EY Y03 L15 Eyesight

How much time do you spend each week looking at screens? Tell us about how and when you use personal computers, tablets and smartphones.
Who in your immediate family wears glasses? What do they wear them for?
Do you wear glasses or contact lenses? If yes, what do you wear them for? How old were you when you started needing them? How much does it impact your daily life? If no, how good is your eyesight?
Do you ever wear sunglasses or do you consider them too garish and feel too self-conscious?
Glasses these days can be fashionable and consumers are willing to pay significant amounts of money on them. Eye surgery or contact lenses, equally, can be very expensive. How and where do you or would you buy glasses, contact lenses or eyewear? Does wearing glasses suit you? Why do you think that?
These days, 90% of Asian schoolchildren are nearsighted. This includes children in Japan. Is this simply due to the explosion in the use of tablets and smartphones?

Question 1

I probably spend over 8 hours a day looking at screens. I spend most of it looking at my phone and some of it working on a desktop computer at English-Please. The rest of the time is when I'm watching Netflix on TV, but I haven't had much time to do that recently.

Question 2

My entire family wears glasses. But, I think I wore glasses the latest. I only started wearing glasses when I got to college.

Question 3

I wear glasses most of the time and contact lenses on special occasions, like on a date or when I go swimming or to the onsen. I only started needing glasses when I reached my second year in college. I was a graphic design student so I spent a lot of time in front of the computer doing my design assignments for school. If I don't have my glasses, I basically can't see people's faces, which would be pretty bad when I have to watch my students in class carefully every day!

Question 4

I think sunglasses are important when you're at the beach or in the snow. I have a lovely pair of turquoise sunglasses that I love bringing with me when I go on vacation to the beach.

Question 5

I don't like spending too much money on my glasses. As long as they look good and work well is enough for me, I don't care about designer brands. I usually buy my glasses from a glasses store in the mall, currently I go to Owndays to get my glasses. I think wearing glasses does suit me, I think it helps me look more serious and more like a teacher, haha!

Question 6

Maybe but maybe it's also because getting access to glasses is even easier now so more people are able to get them. Optometrists used to take a long time to properly measure your eyesight but now a machine can do that within minutes. I think it's also possible that being in front of a screen all the time can deteriorate your eyesight but I'd rather refer to a conclusive study regarding that before believing it.