In the present day, almost everyone relies on the Internet for all sorts of things, from general information, to buying and selling products, maintaining businesses, communicate with friends, make money through various methods, and much more. Basically web surfers want as much pertinent content as possible, presented to them in a form that's easy to read, which would allow them to get the most out of their time spent online. Information has to be presented in such a way that it captures attention without overwhelming readers with too much information, which is exactly why RSS Feeds were developed.
There are hundreds of millions of web pages on the Internet, each with its own specific content and style, which is orientated towards a specific group of readers, who usually keep an eye out for updates and modifications to the pages they are interested in. This sounds alright if you consider a hand-full of users that search for some generic web sites which show up in the first pages of search engines results, but the truth is, there are a lot more pages that may be interesting, but readers never get to them because they are far away in the search engine results. What if you could control the way you receive results and the way you receive updates on site you like?
When searching for something, web surfers usually tend to ignore pages with large chunks of text and no presentation, and go for pages with short and concise titles and headings. Although within that large chunk of text, they might find what they are looking for, it's basic human nature to pick the way that seems the easiest, in this case to pick a page which contains titles that interest you, eliminating the need for you to search within the actual content.
RSS Feeds provide these exact features. Basically RSS feeds are web feeds (in general XML files) which contain short descriptive data about specific subjects. They're main use is to describe in a few words what a specific site is about, allowing for easy updates from developers, and enabling users to subscribe with their email addresses in order get constant updates and news.
A good example would be a news web site, where users can subscribe to get feeds in the form of short stories related to news subject, in the format BIG TITLE followed by a few words, and a read more button which points to the web site.
Using RSS Feeds is recommended especially when you have a web site with large amounts of content, in order to draw in more users, and to allow existing users to get timely updates on the subjects they're interested in. The possibilities of using RSS Feeds are unlimited, and the flexibility it provides makes it a very good choice for community and web site managers that care about their users.
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