why do people seem to love posting lists on the web?

"The best top 5 moives of this year" or "The 10 jobs which appear or disappear in 10 years", this kind of headlines we see very often. Like many people love compiling and posting lists, I do as well. Actually, we can see others' post on their web easily. Nowadays, more and more people like ordering with numbers and showing them to other people. As Andy said, this is a kind of trend (phenomenon) called listmania and I also had time to think about the reasons of why people really like it. Here's what I consider to be the reasons.

First of all, people tend to set the priority of a specific topic. In a fast-changing society, people cannot perform everything at a time, so they do set a priority and decide what to do now and then and what to put aside. This social background has been influencing on people's life deeply, in a more detail. I am also one of those who get up in the morning, think about the things of the day and make a decision of what should be done in order. Like this, people are now even arranging almost everything they are interested in such as the movies they like or the books they prefer and so on.

Secondly, They make a list in order to share their likes and dislikes with others by showing their own things (lists). These days, people have their own blog or at least could have experienced visiting an individual homepage of someone else. we are able to see their entries quite easily and of course blog owners also make them seen to public. For this reason, people want to let others know their tastes by making a list of some certain topics. They express sympathy of others' opinions or sometimes do disagree with others.

Last reason of why people post lists is to make it seem clearer by ordering with numbers. Sometimes, beginning with numbers or alphabets can lead to a better understaing of what is written. This aspect might be one of the good things of making a list. I also find it easier to grasp something which is being ordered. For the people living in a busy world like this, it has been needed something which enables readers to catch in a simpler and easier way.

More and more people love posting lists on their website and this kind of phenomenon doesn't seem to stop very soon. People so called 'listmania' are appearing at any time and anywhere. I guess this trend is closely related to the atmosphere of our society. We contact people with the cyber space quite often, so blog thing has been a great means of how people express their own likes or dislikes by posting the lists. As a person who enjoys making a list, I appreciate others' lists on the web as well.