The only exercise they do is walking from their couches to their refrigerators to get tubs of Bon-bons, or bags of Cheese Balls. It is horrible to think that Americans do not go out to play, walk, or ride their bikes, because they are too afraid or too upset that they will miss the next episode of their favorite daytime show. It is one thing to watch a soap opera, but it is another thing if it becomes your life. Too many believe what they see on their favorite daytime drama is real and actually happening. Too many American people accept soap operas as real life, when they really aren't.
Soap operas are a part of American culture and a source of entertainment and fun.
They allow people to sit back and enjoy a fictional story about a dysfunctional community. But, things begin to get out of hand when Americans become obsessed with these daytime dramas. It is not right when watching soap operas becomes just as important as brushing your teeth or eating breakfast. It is one thing to recognize the dramatic, sultry music as a theme song to a show, but it is a whole different story if that same song becomes the sympathy and the guidebook to your life. What mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten and replaced by a new dish.