What about RSS feed? Is it finish!!

Most of the website owners claiming that the use of Really Simple Syndication (RSS) has Really Simply Stopped. This type of communication application was once very popular. But now it seems to be dying as more social & user friendly ways of getting feeds unexpectedly. It is common idea to all that technology is dynamic .The question that asks humbly for an answer is whether RSS is going through the death phase in its life-cycle, or nor it is an immortal technology that is becoming older gracefully.

RSS is the basis of news and syndication network

Most of the analysts share their opinion on the RSS debate & argued that RSS can never die as it is the force behind the technology who want to destroy this system. A lot of commentators argued that RSS is the backbone of news feeds from the major social media networks. Applications like as Twitter-feed are credited with automatically delivering feeds to Twitter network, is based on the RSS technology. A lot of people use Google Reader, but RSS was the only first technology to make syndication of information easy.

RSS makes easy of internet applications 

Others have acknowledged that RSS may power to all these applications, but it can’t be compared with them. RSS was isolated & as well as lonely; it was never friendly to its users. Most of the people used it simply because they had to, not because they loved to or wanted to use it. There are several people who still use this application, but most of them use it for their professional purposes.

Technology is complimenting RSS

The technology that has been used of replacing it however is dynamic and interactive. Technology as like, Twitter-feed does not isolate the user sharing, but instead includes them in a community where information is not only syndicated, but also it is shared among friends and family. This difference what indicates that such applications turn away from RSS because these applications appear more ‘alive’. On the other hand, most of the analysts argued that RSS is not dead because this technology was never really alive.

Use of RSS has declined 

According to some statistics, the use of RSS has dropped by more than 68% since its inception, even though this application has been accumulated in all the major browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer.etc. as usual.

However, those people who are against the notion of RSS, it argues that RSS usability is the same still now or it has increased. Their argument is all about broadcasting information with the help of syndication, but not about feeds. Therefore, the numbers of feeders is declining, but the use of RSS for what it was actually developed for, which is the broadcast any information in a simplified manner, is yet to decline. The only one most difference is that the platform has changed and the way that people access & use this application is different as well.

Is RSS out of this period of technologies?

Theorist of the ‘RSS is dead’ mantra argue that all technology goes throughout to a similar phase, when any specific technology is phased out, the aspects were good and useful about it are retained and used to develop greater and even more user friendly application. So to say, RSS forms the backbone of some of the main syndication applications nowadays, but this is the similarities end as one application is very different from the others.

Though, anyone can conclude that RSS is no longer being used as a mainstream application by individuals, but it is still now used by several professionals and companies. Although, previously this application was not user friendly, but it simplified syndication of information. There are people who want to get updates on various topics through websites and blogs, they may use RSS feeds.

What is about RSS users?

RSS users have also affected search results on search engines such as Yahoo or Google in the past, they basically stealing the original content by importing their own RSS onto another website, as a result in search engine’s algorithms ranking high with such websites with the original content. This concept  is developed by Google engineers, who are trying to deal with, but it would not have been possible if RSS was dead.

Will RSS die? 

RSS will never die, but it will continue to update behind the curtains to power some of the recent syndication applications. Most probably, it will never be as popular as it was to the public, but it will always use  indirectly whenever anyone use social media networks or other information sharing networks and websites.

What do you think about RSS Feeds? Is RSS really died? Share your opinion with comments.