Buzzfeed

A listicle is a short-form of writing that uses a list as its thematic structure, but is fleshed out with sufficient copy to be published as an article. The listicle was about 29 facts about women in general,

• Women speak about 20,000 words a day. That's 13,000 more than the average man is the opening slide.
• The average amount of time a woman can keep a secret is 47 hours and 15 minutes.

In my opinion I think that listicle dumb down their audience and are catered towards people who have a short attention span. People that like reading quick stuff to entertain themselves and learn cool facts is better than reading a massive article which tends to bore lots of people. They change the way people consume media, the old traditional method of using newspaper to educate yourself about news is the past. Everything has turned digital and are less informative.