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Until one day you start craving brief rants from people or random cat pictures, and suddenly your RSS reader overflows with an endless stream of unread items. Then you find yourself wanting to interact with those posts. Congratulations, you've invented social media. No, social media will never die, and RSS will never die either, because they're part of the same lineage. The only difference is what extra features people have tacked onto them—and those can't be turned off.