I was just on Huffington Post (a site I frequent regularly) and I clicked on the Blogs tab. I click on many tabs while at the site--usually Entertainment, Style, Food, Green, Politics, Travel, Health, Art Books--but never "Blogs." The first three entries on this page led me to a great discovery though...
I am more prone to read a blog post, or an article of any kind, if there is some sort countdown or "Top [insert # here]" or "9 Ways to..." and I for some reason believe that this goes for everyone in the world, not just me.
Why else would there be so many Top 10 Lists? Why else would the top 3 blog posts listed on Huffington Post's Blog tab be: "The 10 Worst States for Retirement," "30 Things that Need to Stage a Comeback, Pronto!" and "The Human Brain: 9 of the Most Stunning Images Ever"? Is it the human condition to like things categorized? Is it our inherent and primitive competitive natures that attract us to lists generated by value judgments? Do we just like the finite nature of these articles, these lists? If there are only 30 things that need to stage a comeback then the reader (me) knows that I only have to devote so much of my time to the article and that this person has (or should have) done some outside research to reach this conclusive number of 30. I trust this person. Because of an arbitrary number.
Top 3 Reasons You Should Read This Post:
1. It will BLOW YOUR MIND.
2. I just made an interesting, albeit useless, observation of human nature.
3. I just informed you of 3 different articles on Huffington Post's Blogs tab that you may not have been aware of otherwise.
Explosive, observant, informative. 1, 2, 3.
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