Making a gross generalization, I think maybe my generation is fascinated with finding fun new categories to fit into. There is no shame in admitting it! We have all been there: scrolling mindlessly on Buzzfeed, when you spot an innocent little quiz that declares that it can tell you precisely which squirrel matches your personality and you felt an innate and visceral desire to click on it and find out now.

Most of us can name our Myers-Briggs personality off the top of our head or the Hogwarts house in which we were “sorted". My question then, as a fellow test-enthusiast, is exactly why can't we get enough personality quizzes?

Deep down, I believe we all realize that personalities are so complicatedly fluid that one result of what “The Office" character you truly symbolize is not accurate for every circumstance. Many of even the most esteemed tests are extremely binary. Moreover, you realize that no test knows you and all of your wonderful little quirks like you yourself do. Nevertheless, you still love them.

Psychologists contend that perhaps personality quizzes are like psychological selfies. According to most Baby-Boomers, Millennials are not only ruining every industry, we are also self-absorbed. Hence, taking photos and tests feeds a fixation with ourselves.

We internally reflect constantly, making us self-aware and causing us to ponder our role in civilization. We desire the satisfying categories that a quiz relays. Therefore, we take these tests because they easily boil down our complex characteristics into bite-size labels. Supposedly, these little bites add up in piecing together a comprehensive picture of the “real you". But they really do not do this perfectly.

Overall, I think tests are amusing, but that is basically it. Our society places a lot of reverence on the results of these personality tests in careers or compatibility, however they all should be taken with a massive grain of salt. People's fickle feelings can influence results. Some folks manipulate their tone to get the answers that they really want. If we take this obsession with labeling our personalities too seriously, the results can actually be restricting – like all labels can be. Say for instance, you are classified as an introvert. In this scenario, will you let that label have a placebo-like effect on you, rejecting pleasant social invitations because some quiz made a blanket declaration of introversion? Concerning the hazard in taking these quizzes too seriously, can we be limited by who we think we are?