Using and even developing my own feed reader called BazQux.
"News is an education for adults" -- heard this in one TED talk and really like the idea.
Social media is an awful source of news. Good if you just see funny cats and at least get some pleasure. But most of the time you'll see articles carefully designed to make money from your attention. Or you get to know something not really important about life of your friends or celebrities (not the real life, only the part that they want to show you and in a way they want to show you). In all cases you get lowest possible quality of information to time spent ratio.
And there is a gambling factor -- sometimes you'll get something really funny/interesting. And like a lab mouse you pull the lever (scroll the page) to get more. FOMO, comparing yourself to others all this adds up and you'll get social media anxiety, lost time and no knowledge.
What's good in blog is that it's usually has some theme. You don't see cats/selfies/celebrities in a programming blog. More than this -- most blogs are written by people who want to tell something, enthusiasts not SMM people. And blogs are personal -- authors don't tailor opinions to yours.
And RSS readers allow to read multiple different blogs. You could have folder for fun/comics stuff, folder for programming, for personal development, children, cooking, music, anything. And read what you like to read now. And don't re-read it again, don't visit many sites and look on the fluff around articles, bookmark what you like, search, filter. All in one place.
Besides RSS my reader allow you to subscribe to FB/Twitter/Instagram accounts, and some users read only social media but in RSS reader just to get all these features.
Unfortunately blogs are out of fame now. Everybody had a blog and posted their opinions a decade ago. Now people create FB/Instagram/Twitter/SnapChat/etc. account and post party pictures or jokes. So RSS usage declines. But I don't believe it will go away. It's just too convenient to get news this way and quality of news is usually much better here. If there will be a new platform where people will write interesting things RSS readers will just add support for this platform.
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Using and even developing my own feed reader called BazQux.
"News is an education for adults" -- heard this in one TED talk and really like the idea.
Social media is an awful source of news. Good if you just see funny cats and at least get some pleasure. But most of the time you'll see articles carefully designed to make money from your attention. Or you get to know something not really important about life of your friends or celebrities (not the real life, only the part that they want to show you and in a way they want to show you). In all cases you get lowest possible quality of information to time spent ratio.
And there is a gambling factor -- sometimes you'll get something really funny/interesting. And like a lab mouse you pull the lever (scroll the page) to get more. FOMO, comparing yourself to others all this adds up and you'll get social media anxiety, lost time and no knowledge.
What's good in blog is that it's usually has some theme. You don't see cats/selfies/celebrities in a programming blog. More than this -- most blogs are written by people who want to tell something, enthusiasts not SMM people. And blogs are personal -- authors don't tailor opinions to yours.
And RSS readers allow to read multiple different blogs. You could have folder for fun/comics stuff, folder for programming, for personal development, children, cooking, music, anything. And read what you like to read now. And don't re-read it again, don't visit many sites and look on the fluff around articles, bookmark what you like, search, filter. All in one place.
Besides RSS my reader allow you to subscribe to FB/Twitter/Instagram accounts, and some users read only social media but in RSS reader just to get all these features.
Unfortunately blogs are out of fame now. Everybody had a blog and posted their opinions a decade ago. Now people create FB/Instagram/Twitter/SnapChat/etc. account and post party pictures or jokes. So RSS usage declines. But I don't believe it will go away. It's just too convenient to get news this way and quality of news is usually much better here. If there will be a new platform where people will write interesting things RSS readers will just add support for this platform.