A List about why I like Lists:
1. My thoughts don’t have to go together perfectly, instead
they are organize by numbers which are basically arbitrary.
2. Cracked.com makes list all the time. Oh! And so does
Listverse… what ever happened to list verse?
3. You can cross things off of lists and it makes you feel
productive.
4. List are a great replacement for actually accomplishing
things, it’s like Pinterest but in real-life!
5. Lists are easier for other people to read. They don’t get
overwhelmed with info and if they think something is a good idea they can just
remember, “that was #5 on that one list” rather than searching through
paragraphs trying to find a tiny quote.
Why I don’t like Lists:
All of the above reasons. I don’t actually end up organizing
any of my thoughts but rather just putting numbers next to them. Other websites
are better at it than I am. It may make you feel
productive but it doesn’t mean you actually are productive and though it
makes it easier for people to read sometimes that means that people aren’t
actually invested in what they’re reading.
When people read they dedicated so much time and energy into
a thought or an author that it becomes like a relationship. They have a
dialogue in their head that goes on with the ideas and they truly process them
and each word that created them. When people look at list they have a countdown
in their head and they congratulate themselves for completing each one because
it gets them to the ultimate goal of finishing the article. If we had
relationships like that, they would really
suck.
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