Drowning in the RSS stream

We are in charge of what we allow to become inputs into our lives.  The idea of a newsreader or aggregator seemed like I good one at the time, but since using it for a week, I’ve found that I’ve subscribed to over 40 RSS feeds ranging from Reuters and AP news feeds to the many blogs that talk to my heart in an online community I sorta belong to.  I just can’t keep up with all the new items being flung at me day in and day out.

I think escape was part of the motive behind downloading and playing with the aggregator tool.  It turned into a pretty mind-numbing exercise to just browse through feed after feed, post after post.  Sorta a different version of channel surfing I suppose.  Well, I’ve come to the conclusion that it isn’t all that spiritually healthy for me to be mindlessly absorbing the information stream for hours on end with no real interaction with the creators of the content (this is especially true of the blogs in my blog-o-sphere).  I’m missing the human interaction.  But then again, I really haven’t felt that much like interacting lately.

Has this ever happened to others out there?  What are your experiences?