10 Shocking Reasons Why I Am Tired of Reading Your Viral Lists (The seventh will kill you)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Tired of reading viral lists

  4. 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?
  5. 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.
  6. A picture might be worth a thousand words, but your animated GIF to make a point kills four brain cells. Because science.
  7. 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.
  8. You run out of ideas by numbers 7-10, and it just gets ridiculous.
  9. You rephrase a point here because lengthy attention is sufficiently dead, and no one will notice.
  10. OMG OMG OMG! One Direction!!! (cue SEO here, and I’m glad you’re all back with me)
  11. These are MY top reasons….why are YOU shockingly tired of reading viral lists? 🙂

 

 

Kinda is an author, teacher, speaker, entrepreneur, and hopeless wanderer. Her favorite places in the world include Manarola, Italy, and Gimmelwald, Switzerland. In her free time, you can find her bargain shopping and hanging out at coffee shops.

6 comments on “10 Shocking Reasons Why I Am Tired of Reading Your Viral Lists (The seventh will kill you)
  1. I’m with the first #2 (you have two 2’s BTW). The bulleted lists have totally destroyed the long attention span. Bummer

  2. I have about a dozen reasons I am tired of lists … but none of them are shocking.

    Love the SEO plug, by the way. 🙂

  3. Katie Cline says:

    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!

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