When you stumble on a new blog you enjoy, how do you follow? Do you simply go to their social media links and follow there? Do you pick one or follow via all available options? I’ve noticed since the fall of Google Reader, blogs are really scattered when it comes to how you should/can follow them. Some use Networked Blogs, some use Linky Followers – which I tried and don’t really understand how to get updates from blogs I followed (though it’s been a while since) – and some still have GFC but, same with Linky, I have no way of reading the feeds of those I follow.

So what is my preferred way to follow a blog? I’m still unsure, really. I don’t like to subscribe via email because I find it gives me way too much to sift through, it’s not as easy as scrolling down an RSS feed. I haven’t really found an RSS reader I could get completely used to as much as I had with Google Reader. Feedly is one that I use sometimes, but I’m still not used to where everything is and how to find a specific blog/post. And then there’s Bloglovin, which seems like the go-to option of choice for a lot of my blogger friends. I do like it myself; I find it user friendly and easy to use. I just wish you could read the posts directly in the app, and not have to load each blog (it’s good that it gives page views, but it takes more time).

Also, is having so many options a good thing or a bad thing? This is my opinion, but I think a blogger should pick a couple of options and stick with them. If I go on a blog that has GFC, Linky, Networked Blogs, and whatever else, I have no idea which they prefer if I want to show my support/love for that blog by becoming a follower. So then I’m like…. do I have to follow using ALL? And if it’s all the same followers on each one, what’s the point? (and it often is). I also find that having all of those widgets significantly slows down a blog. But anyways, that’s a personal choice.

I know this was discussed a LOT when Google Reader got deleted, but now that it’s been… What? A year? (Has it really?) I’m wondering where everyone stands on this how-t0-follow issue.

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