Is anyone else confused? I have read so many blog posts on this, and researched the web. The big questions most of us have is... is Google Reader the same thing as GFC??? Wordpress users really don't have to worry about this so much. But I read my RSS posts through GFC.. not Google Reader. So is that going away? Rumor has it they are the same things... rumor has it their not... rumor has it eventually GFC will go away... What does one do with all these rumors? Well... I decided to sign up for one of these other RSS readers out there and I choose
Feedly because it uses Google Reader as a backend so you can log into Feedly and Google Reader will automatically transfer. So you don't have to re-subscribe to all the blogs you follow. Of course the big question with Feedly is will it still function once Google Reader has shut down. So I don't even know if I made the right choice as a new RSS reader. sigh.
I am not really internet smart. I think I am pretty good but not great. I use Blogger because I don't really know html and so Wordpress seems like it would be difficult for me. So I am trying my best to keep up with how to do this. Keeping readers of my blog (as well as all of your blogs) is going to be difficult without a RSS feed. I hope that people would come to my blog without a RSS feed but when you follow a lot of blogs like myself it's hard to keep track unless you put it in your blog roll or you have a huge fan base.
I have seen some other RSS readers out there...
Flipboard looks good. And I've seen some good thoughts on
FeedDemon as well. I can only say good luck to all of you out there with this... and I hope you don't forget my blog once this all goes into effect!
UPDATE: I am participating in a Bloggiesta event. I have chosen to use Feedly as my reader. I have played around with it and it looks pretty good. I like it a lot. Not I just have to make a point of using it and not just defaulting back to google reader.
