How Will Losing Google Reader Affect You?

Normally I love Google. They have one of the smartest and most generous business models out there.

In other words, their decision to retire Google Reader is the first time I've been like WHY GOOGLE WHY.

People manage and follow their blogs in many different ways, this I realize. But Google Reader is how I personally do it. It makes things so much easier. I don't want to have to take the time to find another RSS reader. I've already got everything set up with GR.

What I'm anticipating this will do to my blog reading habits is to make it a lot more random. I think eventually I will find another RSS reader and get back to consistently reading blogs. But whats probably going to happen, at least at first, is that there will only be a few that I remember to check back with fairly regularly, and the rest will be random blog hopping. Maybe that will be fun for a while.

But I will miss Google Reader. (If you, too, are a major Google Reader user, you can sign this petition to keep it around that already has over 100,000 signatures)

Your turn. How do you manage your blog reading? Do you browse randomly or use an RSS feeder like Google Reader? How will losing Google Reader affect you personally?

Sarah