newsfeed advantages

From: Bryant, Lee. (2007). Emerging trends in social software for education. 'There are several principal advantages of newsfeed aggregation over email: • Subscriptions are chosen by the user – they receive only those updates they wish to. • Individual items do not need to be filed or deleted; they just flow by as a ‘river of news’ and unless you decide to keep them they eventually disappear. • By reading all updates in one place and in one format, users can skim read much larger amounts of information to find what they find useful than with email. • When a source ceases to be useful, or if interests change, a user can simply delete unwanted feeds.'