10. Is there any topic that isn’t made more palatable online by breaking it up into simple numbered points? Who wants to read an entire article when they could just scan the first sentence in a series of short blurbs?
9. Is it easier to complete an article or a project when you have to end at a set number of points? Such as 10, 20, 50, 100. Really, I could go on and on about why top ten lists are banal and totally unauthorized, but I’m going to be glad to stop once I get to 10. I am lazy.
8. Why aren’t these “listers” just making YouTube videos where they read the lists like David Letterman? Wouldn’t that result in even more views? This would actually result in more creativity and would vault your unoriginal list way ahead of anyone else creating a similar one.
7. When did the appellation “Top (Insert Arbitrary Number Here) List of (Insert Arbitrary Topic Here) automatically give weight to the thoughts of the individual or organization that created the list?
6. Who is wasting their time reading all these lists?
5. Who is wasting their time creating these lists?
4. Who is wasting their time creating a list to counter all these lists?
3. If I take common knowledge on a specific topic and break it up into a list of points does that mean I created a list about that topic, or did I just rearrange information that everyone knows already?
2. Does anyone manage to actually fact check these lists that are constantly appearing at the top of web pages like del.icio.us, Digg, or Reddit?
1. Is there a set of knowledge or opinions that can’t be made into a list?
0. Why aren’t these lists longer than 10 or 50? Lists must only end in round or even numbers. I’ve seen top 8 lists, top 34. I’ve never seen a top 21 or 23.
i. When will these lists start using more imagination?
-1. When will these lists get more negative?
-3.14159265358979… When will this onslaught of lists simply become irrational?
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