5 Things About 10 Things

Girly magazines may have started it, but the internet has certainly exploded the use of numbered lists in articles. Here's my 5 things about numbered lists:

1. Ten sounds official: sometimes the list is really only 4-6 and the rest are just fillers.
2. Makes a good lazy read: I've got an LAUSD education...paragraphs are scary.
3. Low-risk for writers: we get ten quick shots to entertain readers (hopefully one hits).
4. Shorter is better: internet people have a 3 second attention span...
5. Guaranteed read: numbered lists look like rules...and even criminals like to know the laws they break.

Numbered lists always steal moments out of my life. 9 out of 10 lists are stupid, but something about sequence always draws my attention.