Because they are for many single people the opening salvo to online dating or our first real entrée for finding a social life, obsession with personals, or at very least an overly keen interest in them is where madness can start. For writers we can become obsessed with getting every single word correct, fret over where to post the personal and then when we do check them constantly-to not do much more then re-read what we wrote-and basically pen more and more personals and tweak, re-post and fret some more.
