Decisions, decisions, decisions! We’re all guilty of avoiding them, but thanks to a new fad, there’s no excuse to equivocate! Flowcharts are back and they’re here to guide you through life’s toughest (and silliest) choices.

The flowchart first emerged in the 1920’s as an efficiency tool of organizational managers. The diagrams were designed to improve workstream by connecting an employee’s actions with corresponding outcomes. By eliminating the unexpected, flowcharts brought new order, clarity and productivity to industrial settings. The brainchild of management expert Frank Bunker Gilbreth, process diagrams gained popularity among manufacturers like Ford and P&G, both hoping to find the “One Best Way.”

Until recently, flowcharts were primarily used by computer programmers to plot complex coding algorithms. But the internet has a knack for making light of things and it seems a flowchart remix was in order. Today, you are as likely to see a process diagram on Buzzfeed as you are in a Dell R&D meeting, with charts addressing scenarios like “should you get the new (insert gadget name here)” and “you dropped food on the floor…do you eat it.”

The flowchart fad demonstrates how influential internet geeks are to mainstream online culture. Just think of all the time we waste on the internet feeding our inner nerds: watching cute animal videos, playing sudoku and stalking the cool kids on Facebook. Sure, most of these new flowcharts are reductionist, trivial, and outright silly, but our human curiosity gets the better of us, and we pursue their orderly outcomes anyway. We know we’re wasting time, but at least we’re wasting it efficiently!

Below are a few more of my favorite flowcharts: