What Kind Are You?

What kind of tree are you?
Which color of the rainbow are you?
What kind of dog are you?
Which Family Ties cast member are you?
Which 1980's fad toy are you?
What is your special gift?
Which body part are you?
Which Gilligan's Island character are you?
Which mental disorder are you?

Seriously, I have actually seen that last one on Facebook. And some of the other ones.

What I don't understand is why anyone would waste their time with such useless pursuits? These "personality quizzes" are built with all the scientific rigor of a horoscope, with results that are equally as malleable and just as useless to your life.

Letting a crudely-programmed algorithm categorize you has to be one of the silliest things you can do on the internet, when there is so much useful information available instead. Yes, yes, it's just entertainment. But it's stupid entertainment.

I know, I know, I am such a Scroogy McBuzzkill. I know, because I took the "Which Dickens character are you?" quiz...

P.S. No offense to anyone who likes these quizzes...they're just not for me. Life is too short. :)