# 8 RSS - moving away from email

I find bloglines a little difficult to navigate. There are a lot of bells and whistles. I suppose that once you have it all set up it makes things easier but there's a bit of work to be done initially. The other thing is that all the formatting is stipped away if you display the blog in the bloglines screen. I suppose that's ok if you only want text.

I'm not so interested in RSSing blogs.

I was thinking that people seem to be moving away from using email. We use social networking tools to keep in touch, we use bloglines or something similar to keep informed. Just last year I probably would have used email alert services whereas now I use RSS. Sometimes things are invented and their usage is not anticipated or they end up being used completely differently from what they were intended to be used as.

I also feel like I'm spending too much time in front of the computer and RSS doesn't help!