Some Friends Suck!!!

Okay, so Kristin and I don't watch most reality shows seriously, but we love to watch the first few episodes of shows like American Idol and America's Got Talent and we stop watching once it gets serious. The first few episodes are filled with people who are in extreme denial about the fact that they are not good at what they do. Could they get there with lots of hard work and dedication? Maybe, but not right now.
This is where "some friends suck!" comes in. Why don't these people have family and friends telling them that they are not ready for "prime time", or just a simple, hey you suck! I would not go out there trying to win at any pro, college or high school sport, and if I had any illusions about this, I would hope that someone would sit me down and say, you are not ready for this.
It really makes me wonder, if people are so affraid of telling others they are close to that they are not good at something, and let them get crushed on national TV, would they say anything about more serious matters? Probably not...
However, if Bill Gates father told him he was smoking a pipe dream and he took it to heart, would he have bought a $5 diskette and then re-coded the OS on that diskette and made it run on a hard drive, this thing called DOS would never have been created and he would not have become the richest man in world. Maybe these people aren't telling their friends they are not good because nobody wants to crush someone's dreams.
I guess it is a judgement call everyone needs to make in their friends best interest. However, if I ever decide to do any kind of competition on national TV and I am not of the highest caliber, please LET ME KNOW!!!
P.S. let me clarify one thing, I was not talking about any of Kristin or I's friends. This post was about people I see on reality TV.