Couldn't disagree more. Neither Twitter nor Facebook, and least of all every dinky little site offering a homebrewed API are an even remotely adequate replaceme

Couldn't disagree more. Neither Twitter nor Facebook, and least of all every dinky little site offering a homebrewed API are an even remotely adequate replacement for RSS. Twitter and Facebook have NOT made anything easier for normal people, they just managed to get the mindshare to force people to deal with their inadequacies, whereas a million different sites offering RSS feeds somehow never turned into something everyone and their dog "had to" use to be cool. I use RSS daily as my main news source, check Facebook maybe every other day and never could figure out the point of Twitter.