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RSS feeds aren't social. Social functionality might not be important to you, but it is very important to many, many people. (Services that graft social functi
by Frondo 9y ago
RSS feeds aren't social.
Social functionality might not be important to you, but it is very important to many, many people.
(Services that graft social functionality onto RSS feeds could satisfy the same need, but then we're not talking about RSS feeds anymore...)
- r00fus 9y agoArguably, using social feed for ads isn't social either. It's advertisement. So the argument still stands. RSS was a much better mechanism to distribute updates and could have been made "social" if companies like Twitter and Facebook weren't intent on dominating that space.