Television: Our Fake Reality

It makes me so mad to watch television and how they portray a normal person's life. It is nothing like an average person's life. They make love out to be something spectacular (which it is). They make high school seem like everyone is over 21 years old and how the popular kids rule the school. College on television is seen as a crazy experience for everyone. It's just odd to me how television puts out this fake reality that we all try to live, yet in the end, we all end up failing at making that reality into our own life. It almost sets us up for a disappointment later on in life. All the shows on TV picture high school kids who look 21 years old and who fall madly in love, yet in an average teenager's life, this does not happen the way TV makes it out to be. All the reality shows are so ridiculous too. All they contain is a bunch of drama. You never see academics on TV. All you see is the partying and the going out, which is a big part, but you have to balance your workload with your social life which is not as easy as TV seems to make it. I just think that television should portray our actual lives instead of a make-believe life that it does portray because it sets us up as teenagers to false expectations.