RSS is what limits us
I could not bring myself to start using RSS for a long time. Everyone around wrote about how comfortable it is with the desk, and I was still waiting for something ... It was necessary to spend time and efforts to install a reader or register in some service that provides these services ... And so laziness ... And secretly somewhere else, the thought “but what if all is not so simple there ... and where to get these feeds ...” - well, and other labuden. But somehow at the beginning of autumn ...
... I forced myself to connect Google Reader.
After that came the pink time. I added a bunch of feeds on topics of interest to me, and almost every day I found new ones. I appreciated the time saved - now it was not necessary to open a bunch of bookmarks one by one to make sure that there are no updates on this blog today. I was surprised at the resources that still have only the mailing list. I was angry at those resources that do not give updates via RSS. They just pissed me off. What is this - should I go to the site every time, instead of just looking for something new or not? Unheard of! :)
But after 4 months, an understanding of one strange thing came to me. Looking around the days that had passed since the RSS reader was connected, I saw that my horizon was clearly limited to the information that I receive with its help. I don’t have time like I’ve previously searched sites and search engines, looking for grains of information on topics of interest to me — and at the same time shoveling a bunch of third-party information (which sometimes turned out to be more valuable than what I was looking for). I stopped clicking on interesting banners that took me to another plane of the Internet. My daily information pack has become much more predictable and monotonous. Yes, now I get “high-calorie” food for the mind on strictly defined and interesting topics for me. But this food has become fresh without the informational garbage that accompanies the usual surfing on the net. And I can’t spend the extra time on relaxed surfing any more - it is all eaten up by “absorbing” the RSS-filtered information.
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I cannot refuse to use RSS - it’s too (is it? It?) Convenient. But the feeling of isolation of the world that I have built, having separated themselves from the walls of RSS feeds from the rest of the Internet, does not leave me now.
Such a strange thing.
... I forced myself to connect Google Reader.
After that came the pink time. I added a bunch of feeds on topics of interest to me, and almost every day I found new ones. I appreciated the time saved - now it was not necessary to open a bunch of bookmarks one by one to make sure that there are no updates on this blog today. I was surprised at the resources that still have only the mailing list. I was angry at those resources that do not give updates via RSS. They just pissed me off. What is this - should I go to the site every time, instead of just looking for something new or not? Unheard of! :)
But after 4 months, an understanding of one strange thing came to me. Looking around the days that had passed since the RSS reader was connected, I saw that my horizon was clearly limited to the information that I receive with its help. I don’t have time like I’ve previously searched sites and search engines, looking for grains of information on topics of interest to me — and at the same time shoveling a bunch of third-party information (which sometimes turned out to be more valuable than what I was looking for). I stopped clicking on interesting banners that took me to another plane of the Internet. My daily information pack has become much more predictable and monotonous. Yes, now I get “high-calorie” food for the mind on strictly defined and interesting topics for me. But this food has become fresh without the informational garbage that accompanies the usual surfing on the net. And I can’t spend the extra time on relaxed surfing any more - it is all eaten up by “absorbing” the RSS-filtered information.
')
I cannot refuse to use RSS - it’s too (is it? It?) Convenient. But the feeling of isolation of the world that I have built, having separated themselves from the walls of RSS feeds from the rest of the Internet, does not leave me now.
Such a strange thing.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1123/
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