Time aint on my side

RSS feeds.  I see their value, I guess.  I mean, I do.  However, I do not see who has the time to read all of the news you would get from these feeds.  I mean with the trazillions (yes, I made that word up) of emails that I get at work and the other stravillions (I'm having fun with this) that I get in my personal email inbox letting me know how I can enlarge parts of myself that I don't even possess, where am I going to find the time to read each time someone changes anything on their blog or website?  I suppose the idea is really to SAVE you time.  The "news comes to you" instead of you having to hunt for it.  However, if I get all these emails the reality is that I will have to spend time deleting them and not reading the actual new material.  Or alternately, I will feel compelled to see what is new when I really need to be doing something else.  If I don't have these feeds I feel like I can make pretty good decisions about which sites to look at when.  

To me, this RSS feed thing is akin to the emails that Facebook wants to send me everytime someone comments on my page.  I feel like shouting, "Great, Facebook!  I would have seen that when I went to my page later....when I have TIME to read the post!  However, now you've robbed me of precious time just by reading this feed.  There goes whatever time I had in the first place!!"  Sheesh!

Well, that makes me seem really high strung.  I really don't think I am.  I just feel that RSS feed is a bit like catalogs that you didn't order.   They're just adding clutter.   Therefore I'm not going to subscribe to many.  (That is a very bad analogy though because I actually really enjoy looking through catalogs...even ones that I never intend to buy anything from.  My mother-in-law actually keeps a stack of all of the ones she receives for me to go through when I'm visiting.  But I think it made the point.)