"Reality' shows

I'm almost ashamed to admit it but I'm addicted to reality shows.  I was a Real World junkie, then The Hills and now Jersey Shore.  I also watch The Real Houswives of New York City although this year was the last season for me and The Real Houswives of the O.C.  Ditto on the last year of that one too.  First of all, the reality shows aren't real--they have writers!  Real life doesn't come with a script.  Second, the producers have to create conflict to make it interesting so they add new characters, they create rumours and they feed the insecurities of the "actors".  I'm watching Jersey Shore and I'm thinking, "Wow!  These kids get paid to get drunk and hook up."    Their drunken antics of nights they can't remember are then broadcast for the whole world to see.  I would have been mortified if my parents saw some of my drunken antics.  They heard about them eventually but they didn't see it, that's a whole different reality.  Their boyfriends and girlfriends also get to witness the crawling into bed with a roommate--there's no covering up that one!  Then who knows what kind of unused footage they will hit you with at the reunion show.  Personally, I wouldn't want to go through that.  Our minds can actually soften how stupid we were and we don't have to watch the re-runs with our children.  These reality shows are creating a whole new type of celebrity.  They don't really have a talent but everyone knows who they are and we read about them in People magazine.  It makes me sad when a nice young girl like Heidi (what the hell is her last name) became another person in both body and mind because of that douche bag Spencer.  Personally, I love Snookie, she is who she is and she doesn't care.  Through the process of being herself, she's also one of the highest paid stars on the show.  Well , I guess the moral of the story  is, as most of our year books have said, "Stay the way you are and keep smiling" but don't do it on T.V.