Do people want to live a soap opera?

Question

It seems like it with all of the affairs and gossip that goes on.

Answer 1

My Family, well my children, have to have drama in thier life to feel complete. Somehow I get sucked in. Let me live in Mayberry please.

Answer 2

When you see the endless variety of gossip columns and celebrity magazines out there, and the media, portraying the most dramatic events on TV, or in newspapers, I think it draws people in and as a result, everyone has a solution, something to say about it (good and bad) and it brings on conversational pieces and topics to share with others.
I think with the celebrity gossip, though, these actors/actresses have taken on that responsibility to make their private lives, public, and this brings out more drama and scandals that society wants to hear more of, because it minimizes what problems 'they're' going through.

Picture this, I used to have an Aunt who didn't go out much, never had hardly any friends, and she sat in front of her TV, all day, and watched soap operas. This was the basis of her conversations, all the time. She lived for her soap opera characters, and brought them into her 'reality', making each character in those soaps, like someone she knew! It was sad, and pathetic, but then I looked at where she was in her life, and she didn't have much, so, this WAS her life. All the drama and action that went on, elsewhere, was what she found intriguing.
I had a grandmother who used to read the celebrity magazines and she would point out what actor/actress was going through a struggle, in their lives, and she would always compare that to what she was going through. She always said things like, "Ohh, that girl is not doing what she should be doing! I wouldn't have done that! I would have..." or she would say, "I'm sure glad I don't have THAT kind of problem!"
So, I think the hype is that people enjoy reading/seeing/hearing about someone ELSE'S problems, and taking the focus off their own, or comparing it to what problems they have.
Sometimes I think when the celebrity news is out there, in full color, in the magazines, and the media glamorizes their expensive lifestyle, the ones who read those magazines, or hear about it, or see it, on TV, tend to fantasize about what they would do with that kind of money, or if they lived in those mansions, or on those islands, etc....

Anyway, that's my point of view.....

A bit lengthy..but....a good theory if I do say so myself! lol

Answer 3

I would on tv not in real life. That drama that goes on is actually reality with some poeple, and I've witnessed it, not pretty! That's why I go for men the same statues as me and higher, single, never been married, no kids, working of course, finished high school, and either in college or finished college. Of course the good stuff that comes with that.




Krazy Libra

Answer 4

I would like it. The women that walk around in soap operas are far better looking than anyone i see on a daily basis.

Answer 5

Maybe you are hanging around the wrong people. If you don't want to hear all the "gossip" from your friends, stop participating in it, change the subject, or simply ask them to know talk about it with you.

Answer 6

Everyone has a little bit of the SOAPS in thier lives. I know I do. There is drama all around us. There is no escaping it.

Answer 7

i feel like my life is a soap opera NOW. i watch them to escape from my own life and watch somebody elses drama. it makes me feel better about my own.

Answer 8

I am happy for them. At least it's not a psychological thriller I live in.

Answer 9

.Its a sad but true fact. Soaps rot your brain

Answer 10

yes they want the same like they see on TV.