These probably sound very familiar:
10 ways to do bla bla... 6 methods to make bla bla... 19 reasons why to bla bla... 43 things bla bla...

These are common "starting lines" of articles both on and off line, with clear deviance towards the on. Too common. These are the reasons you shouldn't use them:

• its boring - I mean, cmone, come up with something new, people...
• its passe - yes, it's not that IN anymore, get over it
• its not effective - people are becoming "10 reasons blind". Like me for example. I no longer click on articles that start this way. Actually, I don't even think about it - the decision has probably been made subconciously by me some day, when my mind had enough, and since then it happens automatically that I just overlook these articles. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
• it smells like SPAM. Actually, in some weird way, IT IS SPAM. Social SPAM, if you like.
• Usually, these articles are of this DIY/how-to/easy-money style, and are pretty low on content. No wonder - anything becoming too widely used becomes shit at very early stage of its fame. Coz most people just can't deliver - and I've got nothing against the crowd, it's just that if everyone would be smart, there wouldn't be a need for smart people, and you probably wouldn't even read this entry :)
• It's depressing. Me at the least. It reminds me of the way the world works today, and the way people are becoming all the same, loose their originality (as result of loosing identity) and become like robots.

Now that I think of it, I've recently titled my article about Google supplemental index "Supplemental index for dummies". How lame. Heh. Mind the split.