As a requirement for this course, I have been testing out Feedly, which is one of the many feed readers. Through out the week of testing Feedly, I have came across few benefits and drawbacks of it, which I'm going to talk about in this post.
Benefits of using RSS Feed reader(Feedly):
- Receive all the latest updates for the websites that I subscribed.
- Power of subscription to any website I want.
- Reduce web surfing time. Since the feed reader provides a summary of the related articles.
- Spam free, unlike email subscriptions, RSS does not make use of personal email address to send updates.
- Unsubscribing is easy, just a click of the delete button in Feedly or any other RSS feed readers, unlike email subscriptions where users are asked questions on why and then have to confirm unsubscribing.
Drawbacks using RSS Feed reader(Feedly):
- Not all websites support RSS.
- Sometimes I receive news and updates that were not to my interests.
As you can see there are not much drawbacks on RSS Feeds. However, not all sites support RSS feeds kinda makes me not a big fan of it, but as for now, I'll be continue using it for this course, since I'm not sure how to follow other people's blogs on blogspot.
Hey Xintao, my names Ben and I am apart of your Content Management group, so FOLLOW ME!
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I also had the same issue with feedly where the content simply became exhaustive as it was highly irrelevant due to a website's rss updating all aspects of their website. Not just one's you might want.
Hi Xintao, I am also part of your group. I have used Blogger for my blog and they usually have a link at the bottom of the page that reads Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This is where you get the link to add to your RSS feed. If you don't already have it mine is http://cathynolan3623ict.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
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