Favourite threads have been a continuous tradition on Forums for generations.
But what are there importance? Do we engage in these pointless topics hoping that other people will read that our favourite fruit is the blood orange and instantly want to befriend us?
I've participated in my fare share of favourites... but in all earnesty, I have never felt the necessity to read my fellow posters. It all just seems like trivial information I'll just forget the day after tomorrow when I talk about my favourite pair of socks...
Perhaps this is just my call out to posters.
Make your "Favourite" topics a little more interesting. Give them Pizzaz for Goodness Sakes! Add a little story. Or maybe urge your posters to tell an interesting story about their favourite item. How it became their favourite item. A memory.
Everytime I engage in favourites I almost do so with a sinical matter. For instance, my favourite smell was burning flesh.
What are ways that we can make Favourites more interesting? Or ... get rid of them ? =P
Maybe we should have a topic: The Favourite of Favourites Where instead of one topic, people just continuously post their favourite whatever day after day after day... seems senseless doesn't it?
I mean, am I wrong? Favourites often seem to me as a way to extinguish boredom without actually challanging ourselves to come up with new, individual, interesting and engaging conversations with eachother.