According to Realitytvworld.
com, there were well over 200 reality TV shows that have been on in the last couple of years.
They range anywhere from Amazing Race to Your Mama Don't Dance.
These shows are being watched by young children to grown adults.
Some of the reality shows on the air today or that have been on the air are a little inappropriate for TV.
Each show sends a different message to the audience out there watching.
Of course all shows have negative aspects to them, but some more than others.
I would have to say a negative show that is on TV would be Real World and Jersey Shore.
If young children are watching these shows they are getting the wrong impression on how to live.
Jersey Shore consisted of bring home girls, drinking and getting into fights.
If a young child saw this a couple of times, they may begin to think that is what the "cool" thing to do when you get their age.
Another issue is all the sexual content that goes into these reality shows.
You see in the Real World and Big Brother people hooking up.
It makes it look okay to hook up with different people in the house.
Some positive reality shows that may be suitable for children would be Top Chef, American Idol or So You Think You Can Dance.
These shows are more positive and encourage people to do their best at something they love.
Another positive show it the Shark Tank.
This gives regular people who have great or not so great ideas to get financial help from investors.
These people aren't going on the show to be a reality TV star, they want their product to be out on the market and they need some help.
This show encourages people to go after their dream and not to be afraid to ask for help.
As viewers we have a false sense of what these shows really are.
It has grown extremely sad and even pathetic.
We watch these shows and we begin to call the contestants by their first names and talk about them excessively.
I know that I do this constantly and I hear a lot of other people talking about the casts of reality shows as if they were our best friends.
We begin to feel this bond with certain people on different shows.
The problem with this is that it's a one way relationship.
Obviously these people do not know us so therefore they have no emotions towards us or ever will.
I know when Jon and Kate were becoming popular (for the good and the bad), they were all over every magazine and I would here people talking about them constantly and somewhat acting like they knew them personally.
Watching the different shows that involve the viewers voting them to stay or to leave gives us the sense that we are determining their fate, we feel connected once again.
I also think we fail to remember that a lot of this can be staged for the pleasure of the viewers.
Just because they are on a reality TV show doesn't mean that this how they act on a daily basis.
On game shows people completely changes themselves, just for their own benefit.
If they need to be fake to win, then so be it.
These shows do not portray the people as themselves.