Really Simple, Stupid

Hello, my name is Raja, and I have a problem.
Hi Raja.
Thank you. For the past year, I have been struggling with an addiction – a disease – which has been ruining my life at every turn. I lost my job, my wife, and my prized gumball collection because I kept telling myself I didn’t have a problem. Also my dog died. I used to insist that I could quit anytime I wanted, and would sometimes give it up for brief periods; however, my hiatus would inevitably be cut short, and I would always end up being drawn back to it, unable to free myself from its wicked, tyrannical grasp. And now Sparky is dead.
My name is Raja. And I am addicted to RSS Feeds.
*Applause, hugging, and crying*

Though I’m sure most of you are already aware, for those of you who aren’t, an RSS feed is a thing that enables you to check for updates from all your favorite sites (that support it) in one place. RSS feeds are viewed through an RSS reader – I like Google Reader:

What Google Reader looks like after neglecting my feeds for a day (click to englarge)

There are lots of different RSS readers out there, some of which even download your feeds and allow you to read them offline – even Internet Explorer 7 has its own (crappy) RSS reader! You can find tons of them by simply googling RSS reader

Once you have a reader picked out, adding a feed to it is easy. For instance, to subscribe to a feed using Google Reader, simply hit Add Subscription and paste the link to the feed. Links to feeds can usually be recognized by one of the following images on a webpage:

In addition, some pages also hide a link to the RSS feed in the source-code. For some reason, Internet Explorer does not support these types of links; however, in Firefox, the link is given directly in the address bar:

Once you have feeds from all your favorite sites, they are updated automatically in the reader – all you need to do is come back to check on them every once in a while.

An example of what a feed looks like