Crazy about quizzing

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Call it self-obsession, Net addiction or a simple need to quench one’s urge to de-stress. Whatever the reason, hordes of youngsters find themselves getting hooked to crazy quizzes, surveys and the like.

Take for instance the case of Rajat Gambhir, a 16-year-old student from St. John’s school, who spends hours on “silly” social interviews and surveys on Facebook. He says, “Although I know most of these quizzes are pointless, I do them just for fun. They are great conversation starters and a fun ‘time pass.’ If you notice, most of these quizzes and tests are based on the one subject we all find irresistible: Ourselves. Which makes it all the more interesting.”
Most find them a great stress buster and share links of funny surveys to their friends, even though most of them don’t think much of the content.
Amritha Kumar, a first year college student says, “High standards and accuracy are rarely present in quizzes and surveys these days.” She continues, “When I was doing the ‘Which historical couple are you,’ quiz, I think I got Jackie and John Kennedy but a friend got Ross and Rachel! Ross and Rachel are a famous historical couple? That’s bizarre.”
Anuj B., a BioTech student, agrees with her, adding, “Race, creed or colour, you name one and someone’s built a questionable quiz to determine if, or how much, of that race, creed or colour you belong to. One of my friends sent me a link of a survey which said that people who have Internet at home are most likely to be in a relationship. Someone tell them we are in the 21st century and everyone has access to the Net today, anywhere! Most of the time I just laugh it off.”
There is little doubt that these quizzes, surveys and trivia can get addictive. Sakshi Pranchal, a class 12 student and a self-confessed Internet addict, says, “I spend hours binging on Facebook quizzes every day. They’re pretty silly, especially when not a single answer within the multiple choices given is something I’d actually choose, but they are addictive nonetheless. The only quiz which worked for me was, ‘How addicted are you to Facebook quizzes’ as I scored 100 per cent in it!”
Kartik Iyer, a comedian concludes that it’s the urge to grab attention, which leads most youngsters to take to quizzing. “You don’t need any special skills to build a one-off Facebook quiz. And it shows. The networking site is chock-full of homemade quizzes with the kind of egregious spelling and grammatical errors that would make your fifth-grade language teacher positively apoplectic. Probably we should get off the net and do something more challenging,” he says.