Reality Television

     With today's modern technology it is fairly easy for the younger generations to become easily unamused. What used to amuse a teen 10 years ago will grab their attention for about 10 seconds in today's time. Television shows have had to become more suspenseful, more unique and most of all more interesting in order to become successful. Nowadays, the most common T.V show is a reality show. These show's allegedly contain no scripts and are all "real" events. These type of shows seem to be very popular in the younger generations, mostly teens. However, I will admit that, being a teen myself,  I have watched my fair share of reality shows. Maybe it's because they contain legitimate scenarios or maybe it's just because what you see on a reality show seems to be more relatable to our everyday lives but somehow I always find myself drawn to these shows. To be honest they are quite interesting and maybe for some it might just be a way of comparison to their own lives to be able to say saying, "well at least my life isn't that dramatic." Unfortunately, reality shows have a way of getting in your head and as much as you might say that you think some of the people on the shows are disgusting or simply uneducated you just can't help getting home in time to watch that new episode of your favorite, most current reality show.

  As much as I would love to say that I hate reality shows, I don't. I guess you could say I'm a neutral party. However, I do believe that those types of shows are very harmful to our society. There might be some people that think that maybe if they act as crazy or as wild as the people on reality shows maybe they will get their own reality show. Furthermore, what if a young child watched a reality show with obscene content and thought of those actions as something to consider to be normal. Those are some examples in which I would consider these shows to be very harmful to our society. Now, I won't say that I am completely against reality shows but for the most part they are all garbage. Reality shows are good for entertainment purposes not for a way to base your life upon. I might even say that a reality show is more dangerous than any other type of show because with a reality show you are dealing with real life events that anybody can perform. This of course, encourages not only dangerous behavior but also inappropriate behavior. However, taking into consideration that a lot of reality shows are staged now, some acts might just be unobtainable but nevertheless possible. Even though reality shows might be one of the few things that can keep a teen entertained for more than 20 minutes it doesn't mean that it is the only source of entertainment and eventually as we begin to mature we also begin to lose interest.