Thing #8

I learned about RSS feeds and I set up a bloglines account http://www.bloglines.com/myblogs. I'm still trying to determine if I have a need for them. I see RSS feeds as similar to magazines. Since I have alot of interests, I have alot of magazines. What happens though is that I don't have time to read them all. So they sort of pile around. I think that would be the same thing that would happen to me and RSS feeds. I'd get all these great web sites that are waiting for me to click on them...and I wouldn't have time to click on them. But at least they wouldn't pile up like magazines, hmmm.

I do use the internet to find out about the world. I use it especially to provide product reviews when I need to make major purchases. I also use it to read the Charlotte Observer. I use google quite a bit as my search engine. It's convenient and its there.

As far as RSS feeds go, I don't see them as a major issue for people in the future. The reason is that who has time to read all that stuff. I think that individuals are getting busier and busier the more that the internet frees them to do more stuff. My feeling is that when people go to the internet for information...they want it quick...get in, get out. People who have a great deal of time for the internet are teenagers. Middle school and high school aged folks. I don't think that adults have great gobs of time to spend reading more than 5 RSS feeds...that is, if they have lives.

I'd estimate, though I admit I'm purely speculuating, that people use the internet to get breaking news, to learn about new things or to get answers about things they have questions about. They'll go there for dating prospects, room mate prospects, and to buy or sell items. And they'll go there to work on their own blogs, create blogs and to read selected blogs.

Those are my predictions :-).