Jet Lag=Blog Lag

If you have recently visited this blog and wondered where the new posts are, you can be sure they are in my head as I am boarding an airplane somewhere. My travel schedule has been crazy lately and my poor body clock has no idea where I am. So I am grateful for your patience as I have posted fewer and fewer items here. 

In light of this, I'd also like to know how you are currently consuming your social media. I have to confess that I am getting further and further behind in my own blog reading and am dependent on alerts through services like Facebook and Twitter to know what's new. Yet, I don't want to see my learning reduced to 140-character bleats. So I am intentionally spending more time with in-depth articles, documentaries, and books--and hoping I'm not missing too much in the blogosphere.

What about you? How do you receive your news? Should I update Radical Womanhood's readers through a Twitter or Facebook notice, in addition to RSS feeds? (I have noticed that four times as many readers access Radical Womanhood through RSS feeds than visit the site directly.) 

More importantly, in an age of information overload, how are you managing your time and input? I look forward to hearing and learning from you!

Comments

[Vanessa]

I tend to read blogs through RSS more than I use Facebook or Twitter. On a typical day, I might give Facebook and Twitter just a glance and read maybe one or two blog posts. On the weekends I catch up a bit on the blogs I like to read, but I've been trying to limit my social media consumption to a manageable level that doesn't consume a lot of time.

[Gina]

I am new to your blog and have recommended it on my Facebook page. I receive your updates on an RSS feed (I think)- if that's what feeds your updates to my blog. I am new at all of this. Anyway, I enjoy your posts and perspective. I too have been spending too much time perusing my favorite blogs and am trying to cut back in order to actually do some in-depth reading of articles in periodicals and books.

[Linda Trumbo]

I have my favorite blogs saved in the toolbar and have a weekly rotation for checking them after checking e-mail. Facebook occasionally alerts me to new posts, but usually I just check directly. I do follow facebook for news articles and such.

[Barbara]

I use Bloglines.

[Joanna]

I like to go to the site directly, so I have my devotionals all under a folder in my Bookmarks. RSS has let me down a few too many times, & sometimes I don't get to see the pictures, which I like. I don't like Twitter, and I just signed up to Facebook, & I'm not fond of it, honestly. I prefer email & real conversations in person! I love reading physical books, etc. because it's just more, for lack of better word, real & personal & homey-feeling. I guess I'm just an old-fashioned Gen-Xer. Hope this helps with your decisions.

[Michelle]

I would definitely advise you to use twitter. You may find you will have more readers. I read your blog through an RSS reader (google) It works for me! I don't use FB to follow blogs. I like to keep up with friends there only.

[Natalie]

I bookmark the links to my favorite blogs and web pages and check them about once a week. After the first month, I stopped checking Twitter, and I prefer to use Facebook to keep up with friends, not businesses. I'd rather read longer articles and blog posts than getting short bits of random information.

[Susan Fleming]

I like to get email notifications. I have had only hit and miss success with RSS - can't understand why it just quits sometimes. And then, I have a list that I rotate through. A list, I might add, that is getting longer! So many blogs, so little time!