I was going to say what the fuck are you talking about until I saw the acrylic nails thing at the bottom.
To answer your question about long nails in general though, as someone who comes from a family where everyone both male, and female has them, it's not so much we like them long so much as they grow really fucking fast, are ridiculously durable, and don't get in the way as much as you'd think.
They only really scratch if you're going out of your way to do that, or if their jagged, and broken. They don't really tap on things either because we use the very bottoms of fingers to avoid that, and shit, too. Them not looking good is also not a problem because we live in the middle of bumfuck Appalachia where no one's nails look good, so it doesn't really matter that ours don't either.
Really the only downside is that when they break, they break near the nailbed, and that hurts like a bitch.