Ryan Naraine of ComputerWorld compiled a list of the top 10 web annoyances. I know this is too easy, but my number one web annoyance is top 10 lists. I just did a quick google search for top 10 lists, and I got back 1.5 million results. It’s like everyone is taking blogging advise from Casey Kasem.
So now without further ado, the top 10 reasons I hate top 10 lists:
- Everyone does them.
- It’s an easy way to get traffic. You may as well write about the iPhone.
- They’re too easy (to make a bad one - this post being example #1).
- They’re too hard (to make a good one - this post being example #1).
- They’re fodder for inane Digg comments (there were 703 pages of results for a search for top 10 lists at the writing of this post).
- They get boring after about 5 entries.
- David Letterman’s are always better than anything you could write.
- You usually have to start making things up to complete the full list of 10.
- They inevitably lead to “I hate top 1o lists” top ten lists. Which are probably worse than the original top 10 lists.
- Ok. Maybe I’ve only got 9 reasons to hate top 10 lists. And none of them are particularly good.
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