RSS...WTH?

So I successfully set up a couple of RSS feeds. I used the Bloglines site and it was pretty easy, though I have read on other blogs that using other accounts has been problematic....so here I am with yet ANOTHER account (another password yadda, yadda, yadda)...

Does this make information gathering more convenient for me? At first I was thinking this would be a good way to track one type of information for myself (soaping), but then I thought...what's wrong with the way I've been following other blogs up to now? Okay, maybe I'm limited to blogs that are only on Blogspot, but is that really a bad thing?

How convenient is it really to have to check so many accounts? We already check our email accounts (in my case 4), our Facebook accounts (I can't be bothered), our personal Blogs, and then finally the postings from all those other bloggers that we are interested in.

I think I am finally reaching my technology saturation point.

What I'd really like to know is when people who do all this checking and keeping up actually live.