- Things aren’t nearly as exciting as you make them sound. (Fifteen exciting ways to unstop a toilet….really?). Most of life is a string of mundane. Let’s lower the expectations, people.
- All things can’t be forced into lists. Life is more complex and not so easily-explained. Some things need entire paragraphs of prose. Like Dell-using graphic designers or irony.
- You’ve killed the long attention span. I’ll bet if I wrote another sentence at the end of this one, you wouldn’t read it. Faulkner would never make it in modern-day social media. Anyone still reading this?
- Sometimes art should be created for the sake of art and not for marketing. Ignore the fact that I’m in marketing. I’m still tired of it.
- A picture might be worth a thousand words, but your animated GIF to make a point kills four brain cells. Because science.
- Current middle-schoolers will turn in their college essays as bulleted memes with the words “your” and “you’re” misspelled. Let’s stop a future tragedy now.
- You run out of ideas by numbers 7-10, and it just gets ridiculous.
- You rephrase a point here because lengthy attention is sufficiently dead, and no one will notice.
- OMG OMG OMG! One Direction!!! (cue SEO here, and I’m glad you’re all back with me)
- These are MY top reasons….why are YOU shockingly tired of reading viral lists? 🙂
I’m with the first #2 (you have two 2’s BTW). The bulleted lists have totally destroyed the long attention span. Bummer
Thanks! Yes, WordPress tends to throw in extra “ol” tags every time I re-save or update a post. It should be corrected now. Thank you!
I have about a dozen reasons I am tired of lists … but none of them are shocking.
Love the SEO plug, by the way. 🙂
So funny and so true. There was a time when these lists could have a positive effect. Those days, along with our attention spans, are long gone. Thanks for sharing!
Hilarious. Yes!
Thank you!