It's really complex, I didn't use it much myself, but many people found it indispensable
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That bond is super strong, because you felt like you'd get to know someone else's mind
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I think this is mostly what people mean when they say they miss Google Reader.
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(At least, it's what I mean.) People always recommend another RSS tool but that's the least of what's missing from the experience of it imo
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Another thing that's important about the "reblogging" or sharing feature - with the bookmarklet, you could grab shreds/quotes of things
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So oftentimes you weren't reading or sharing whole articles, but a snippet. Very efficient for pulling marrow from long texts for example
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You in turn were expected to curate what was actually interesting. There was a full link & you could add some written context at the top
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Being introduced at a party as having a great gReader feed was an outstanding point of pride, and instantly gave something to talk about
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