entertainment television (:

There are three kinds of people when it comes to reality TV. The ones who are obsessed with a specific show or a few shows, the ones who watch it occasionally, and the ones who hate those kinds of shows. I myself am the in between person who watches reality TV occasionally. Well I guess I would say I watch it more than occasionally, but I’m not obsessed with a certain show or anything. I think these shows are more of a “guilty pleasure” for me. I watch them pretty much every time I turn on the TV as a way to entertain myself when I’m bored. I do have to admit that watching other people’s problems does help me take my mind off of my own problems at times too. It’s also a bad habit of mine to watch these shows as an excuse to be a lazy bum on the couch all day.


Even though I tend to keep my eyes on the show, I don’t completely like everything I see. For example, I do not like when all the people in the show get all dramatic, especially over dumb little things. If one person says one wrong word to another person, then this tends to end up in a fight, or just a huge, over exaggerated argument. These are the kinds of shows that I think have no point in being aired, their just there to annoy people.

I think sometimes people use these kinds of shows as a way to feel better about themselves. For example, if they see a flaw in someone on TV they’ll feel better because they don’t have the same flaw. Or if someone is going through a problem and they see that someone else on TV is going through the same problem then they feel better that there not the only ones. People may also use these shows as a way to get advice on their problems without asking for any. For example if person A has a problem, then he might turn on the TV and look at how person B, the person on TV, handles their problems. Then person A might make some life decisions based on person B’s actions.

Sometimes people watch shows for the wrong reasons, and sometimes shows send the wrong kind of messages or set bad examples. If the show has young kids acting a certain way such as doing drugs or being sexual at a very young age then kids might watch those shows and try to mimic the actions of the people. This would be a type of show that may be harming our society.

I was trying to think up some reasons about how reality TV is actually benefiting our society but I couldn’t. I think that it is a bad habit that people have but sometimes we tend to watch almost anything for entertainment. I also think that these kinds of shows tend to be a bad influence overall, to everyone but mainly kids. But at least while these shows keep airing people will always have something to watch.