I’ll start by saying this: I hate online quizzes. Occasionally there is one that is entertaining or even makes sense. But for the most part, they are inane and try to equate you to some abstract concept that there is no real mapping from human personality to. They’ve only been made worse by the influx of apps into Facebook, and the ease in which someone can slap together a quiz app and share it to all their Facebook friends. Here are some examples of what I’m talking about:
- What Type of Heart Are You?
- Who were you in a past life?
- What type of kiss are you?
- What decade are you?
- What type of shoes are you
And the list goes on and on! The ones that really bother me are the ones that ask 3 or 4 questions that have nothing to do with the question and then magically correlate that information into some relevant category to determine what type of shoe you would be if you were a pair of shoes. Sometimes I think people mindlessly click links to quizzes just because they are now trained to do that. So here’s what I’m going to do. I will post a link to this article on twitter under the auspices of being the link to a quiz. I will keep track of the clicks through to the page and update this article.
So, are you one of the people who fell for it? See below for the current(ish) number of clicks I’ve generated.
Update: Between the time that I posted to twitter with the fake link introduction and the time that Twitterfeed tweeted the link legitimately for my blog, I received 7 clicks for this little experiment.