'Looking for Love' Reality Shows

All young girls dream of finding true love and having their fairytale wedding. This dream is alive for adults as well. In order to make this dream come true, some will go to the extent of registering on a website or even participating on a reality show. Some of these shows are The Bachelor or Bachelorette, A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila or Rock of Love. All of these shows have different methods to finding love, but all of the contestants have the same goal: to find love.

Now I could personally never be on these shows, but some of the men and women seem perfectly fine with it and are even enthusiastic. I would especially not do it if I were in my twenties because I would still have so much life to live that I’d never know who I would meet. I feel like for me personally, a reality show would be a last resort. And for the record, I am in no way trying to bash those who do this, I just feel that it wouldn’t be for me. But are the contestants on these shows natural or influenced by the producers?

I know it would have to take a specific personality to actually be on the show because producers want to get as much out of the contestants in order to attract viewers. This is definitely seen in shows such as Flavor of Love because it is more likely for the contestants to argue which in turn makes good television. So I believe that these shows may have the same goal of finding love, but the real goal is to ultimately make good television.