Nemphtis

If you follow me on social networking sites then you’ll know I use RSS feeds to keep up with the Internet. However, over the years I’ve accumulated more and more feeds into my reader, and once again it’s reached a point where I just can’t keep up with the volume of updates I receive every day.

I woke up this evening at two o’clock and began reading the RSS feed I had left open from the night before, taking breaks in-between to enjoy some music and read a few articles I had saved onto my iPad’s Instapaper app. It’s now nearly twelve o’clock and the day will soon be over, and I’m still reading my RSS feeds.

Unlike most of the time, it’s not because I’ve let them build up over the course of a few days and now I have to catch up with a mountain of content; it’s because fifty new items are posted by the time I read the previous fifty. My futile attempt at keeping up with this vast library of feeds has only come to my attention today, as I saw in real-time how new posts were added just as I thought I was getting somewhere.

The saddest part of my predicament is that it wasn’t too long ago I had trouble keeping up with my feeds like I am today, and after some inner battles to convince myself that purging some of the more pointless items was a good idea, I decided to just do it. I removed about twenty-five percent of my feeds that day–feeds for websites I followed for entertainment like LEGO blogs which showcased impressive creations and GamesPress, which had mind-numbingly boring press releases for (wait for it) video games, many of which were obscure games I couldn’t give less of a shit about.

So now I sit here writing this quick entry with two hundred updates left to read, and seeing as I’ve been typing this for about ten minutes now, let’s make that four hundred unread items…

I must be a fucking masochist or something.