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March 03, 2008
Google Reader Be Gone!
As phase one in my Internet addiction therapy (don't be fooled - I'm not in Internet addiction therapy. Nor is there a phase two.), I DELETED ALL OF MY GOOGLE READER FEEDS yesterday. The constant pressure to read every last published piece that came up on my monitor was unhappily reminiscent of the early aughts - back when I had a dial-up modem...and subscriptions to 15 magazines and newspapers.
So, yes. I am free. But I'm also kind of bored. And out of coffee. Tragedy!!
Posted by Bree at March 3, 2008 10:21 AM
Comments
you know there's a "Mark All Read" button, right?
Posted by: stephen o'grady at March 3, 2008 03:25 PM
Yes, but it felt false to use it if I, indeed, had not all read.
Posted by: Bree at March 3, 2008 05:44 PM
I didn't read any thing all weekend and today I was much too busy. So, I have about 700 items to read. And I surely won't read them all. In fact, I like to hit the mark all read when I don't read, because later I can look at the statistics and sites I chronically skip, get purged.
Posted by: Syd at March 3, 2008 06:15 PM
I know, you're both right. I should just hit "Mark all read" and be done with it, but I'm way too OCD for that. I feel like I have to read ALL of them - and find myself scrolling through and not reading just to get the number of items to decrease.
Regardless, I'm really beginning to regret this rather hasty and ill-conceived idea of mine. I am super-tempted ALREADY to rebuild it.
Posted by: Bree at March 3, 2008 07:08 PM