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eHA_Admin_Lori is offline eHA_Admin_Lori — Advice Official Moderator Post #1  July 30,2010, 3:52pm
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So, as most of you know I also run eHarmony's wedding Communities. I try to keep up with the wedding related shows but I can't watch stuff like Bridezilla, for example, because it's just so NEGATIVE. Just...people behaving badly and treating other people REALLY badly, and I actually find it more depressing than entertaining.

Am I alone in feeling this way about those kinds of shows?
 
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Yeah. Any show that demonstrates that kind of drama is probably not a healthy choice for anyone that has their own stress in their lives.

Not a good idea to come into contact with somebody else's stress.
 
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No Lori, you are not alone. Life is too busy and short to be negative. People need to learn to be flexible and support one another in their particular situation.

TV has too many mindless shows for me.

I take negative situations of my own and look at the positive side of them for any needed corrections or improvements.
 
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eHA_Admin_Lori wrote :
So, as most of you know I also run eHarmony's wedding Communities. I try to keep up with the wedding related shows but I can't watch stuff like Bridezilla, for example, because it's just so NEGATIVE. Just...people behaving badly and treating other people REALLY badly, and I actually find it more depressing than entertaining.

Am I alone in feeling this way about those kinds of shows?
We should all go to eharmony wedding community and hang out there...it'll be like wedding crasher

but yeah....I don't watch bridezillas and crazy stuff like that.

I will have to say I watched that show "You're cut off" about spoiled women who spend their husbands/parents money and they had to live in a house for a few weeks with a life coach.

Gotta love it when seeing these women try to clean a lawn furniture with a mop
 
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I've been tired of negative TV for years now to the point where I rarely even watch it at all. It's not just shows but all the news as well - seems like the apocalypse is here every single day. It gets old really fast.
 
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I started watching Bridezilla on OnDemand & got a few minutes in & thought, why am I watching this? I refuse to now as I don't want to help boost ratings hoping that shows like that will eventually get canceled.
 
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I used to be a Nielson TV sample household, but I quit because I watched too little. I just like intelligent shows.
 
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eHA_Admin_Lori wrote :
So, as most of you know I also run eHarmony's wedding Communities. I try to keep up with the wedding related shows but I can't watch stuff like Bridezilla, for example, because it's just so NEGATIVE. Just...people behaving badly and treating other people REALLY badly, and I actually find it more depressing than entertaining.

Am I alone in feeling this way about those kinds of shows?
Well, the title alone is attention gathering...

And that is what they need. Attention. Attention sells ad space, which makes money, as I understand it. It is kind of sad that way.

I don't watch much television. Although there are some good shows on sometimes, I usually choose to spend my time elsewhere. Not that what I do is any more personally edifying or enriching, sometimes- daydreaming on the roof, driving down curvy roads, reading popcorn books (sci-fi is good for this sometimes)... *grin*

The negativity on television is in some ways a reflection of the negativity in some parts of the population. They feed off each other a bit. I'm sure we've all met people like this, who just can't seem to find happiness in their lives anywhere.

But there are positive things on television, just as there are positive people. When I do watch television (somewhat rarely), I am more drawn to history, technology, and sometimes the news (when the story is not another "Look! Be horrified!" story). I like Mythbusters, for instance. *grin* Loads of fun for a curious person like me.

I try to avoid negativity in general. There is so much more awesome stuff in the world, so many more interesting stories and fun people to interact with, I try and keep the unpleasant stuff to a minimum. Much better, I think, to enjoy the wonderful things to be experienced in life than to dwell upon the awful things any more than absolutely necessary.
 
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I am getting tired of these contest shows and so called reality shows. it has always been that one person get a good idea for a show and every one else copies it until the genre dies, when was the last time you saw a new western TV show?
 
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