Are you annoyed by the numerous notifications appearing on your facebook when your friends take quizzes? I'm one of those. I mean I am the kind who takes quizzes (guilty as charged) and also the kind who gets irritated by the numerous notifications when my friends take silly quizzes. Some quizzes are ok, but some others are totally trash. So when facebook notifies me that a friend of mine took "how horny are you" quiz, I get irritated. Recently I discover -- and thus calling it my own theory --- why people (including me) take facebook quizzes. It's psychological. Put it like this: say you unconciously want to project the image of you being a romantic person, then you take "what kind of person are you" quiz and get "you are a very romantic person" kind of answer. Instinctively you would click "publish" when the system asks you whether you want to publish the result to your friends or not. So taking this quiz is actually a better option of letting your friends know abt this fact rather than typing " <your name> is a romantic person" on the status update box or your friends' wall. Apart from being narcissist, silly and all, the later option only shows 1 sided point of view. The quiz provides a 3rd party acknowledgement that you are indeed a very romantic person. Do you get it? It's alright if you don't. Most probably you are in the state of denial i.e. you know it's true but you are somehow embarrassed to admit it =p Some of you even retake the quiz over and over again just to get the result you wanted and then only publish it. Am I right? Oh yes, there is another type of quiz takers who take crappy quizzes (perfectly knowing tt the quizzes are crappy) and publish the crappy results to the entire world. My guess on this --- and thus calling it my own hypothesis ---- is that they are bored and want to look funny by entertaining their friends with crappy jokes. Some of those crappy answers did make me laugh though, so I'm not complaining  xD I am so gonna get this theory and hypothesis vetted by my aunt who is a psychologist, then take the "what is the most suitable job for you" quiz and retake it countless times till I get "you should be a psychologist" answer heheehe...