The Single LifeA typical single person in the media is usually portrayed wrongly in my opinion. They are shown living daily without worries. If they were tasked with something, it doesn't matter and is usually ridiculously unimportant. One example is that they only seemed to care about finding dates. If that's the worst thing I have to worry about when I'm older, then I'm not too worried about getting old or being single. In many television shows, the main focus of an episode is about a man looking for a girlfriend or a girl looking for a boyfriend. This doesn't happen in real life. I mean, sure, people are looking for dates to hook up, but that doesn't occupy their entire mindset. It seems that on television, single people have no responsibilities. They always focus on trivial materialistic things. Clothing, jewelry and money are the main topics of discussion or concern. The singles seem pretty independent on the shows. They seem free to run free, free from any commitment. On “Friends,” they seem to have plenty of time to sit around and talk about things all day long. And of course, there's "Seinfield," the ultimate series about absolutely nothing. Neither of them are married, but they are described as living perfectly happily with not a single problem. They are usually portrayed as sexually active and make it seem OK to sleep around. Almost every TV show shows someone sleeping with another person. Being a tramp has become a joke. Television has gone from Leave it to Beaver where parents slept in separate beds, to now where unmarried couples and strangers sleep together. I think this is a bad example for single people in our society. This sets the tone that people will be fine if they are single. Of course the world won't end if some people are single, but we want to strive to get people married..