If you imaging following many sites, no matter their size, visiting them regularly sorry but there is no practical human way for such absurd time-consuming task

If you imaging following many sites, no matter their size, visiting them regularly sorry but there is no practical human way for such absurd time-consuming task. To follow many sites we have RSS since decades, witch is the basic personal aggregator + many other things third party aggregators simply can't do (like personal automation from release feeds, banking automation if your bank offer feeds automation (witch happen to be very rare, unfortunately), security vulnerability advisor automation etc. If you use social you use them as a feed replacement and that's a very poor one.