Dear RSS Feeds

Thank you so much for existing. It's hard for me to imagine surviving on the internet without you. Just a few years ago, I didn't use you. I had heard of you, but didn't really know what you were or what the point was. What really got me to use you was webcomics. A few friends of mine showed me some, and before long I was reading a decent handful. Checking them all every day was tedious and pointless, I eventually organized my bookmarks by the days of the week they actually updated, but even that wasn't exactly a perfect system.

Then I discovered you. You nicely notify me when things are updated, keep track of what I have and haven't read, it's wonderful. Now instead of keeping track of tons of bookmarks and websites, I can go to one single place, and from their easily know where I should go for new content and when. It's so nice to have a place I can go that basically brings all the parts of the internet I want right to me, instead of having to go searching for them on my own. And since I use Google Reader, it's all part of my Google accounts so I don't need any new accounts or anything.

Currently I have 71 subscriptions, including all sorts of things like webcomics, blogs, Youtube channels, Tumblrs, videos, and even television shows. It's so nice to be able to keep everything nice and organized there, with folders and everything, instead of just aimless wandering the internet. I can't imagine trying to keep up with all 71 of those things on my own, it would be hectic.

I've gotten so used to using you, that now I get frustrated when things don't have an RSS feed. One webcomic I read, Dominic Deegan (not the best art, but good though often complex and confusing story), doesn't have an RSS feed, so I have to manually go check the site regularly and it gets rather annoying. Of course, I love you so much that I have one, with a tool on the right side of my posts that conveniently helps add the feed to a few common readers, as well as a link into the actual feed itself at the bottom.

Thank you, keep doing what you're doing, and never go away.
-SF