Keeping track of the many social networks you’re a member of can certainly be a challenging task. Between Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Flickr, and more, we all probably have at least two or three accounts that we check on a daily basis. If you’re an avid user of RSS readers, one solution to keep up with notifications, is to load them all into Google Reader (if you’re not a fan of Google Reader, we’d definitely recommend Feedly as a slick alternative when it comes to keeping up with RSS feeds). The reason you might want to use a method like this is for the convenience of having all of your notifications in one place, and while you can keep up with what people are saying to you, or writing on your wall – by not being directly on your Facebook account or Flickr page, you can maintain a certain level of productivity. If you don’t want to get sucked into your social networks, just knowing what’s going on without being able to interact can be a good way to stay up to date. Another advantage to using RSS feeds to keep up with your social network notifications is that if Facebook or Twitter happen to be blocked by your ISP or at your place of work, you can still see what other people are saying, bypassing any sort of blocks that might exist. With some of these services, however, the challenge can be in finding the actual RSS feed. We’ve put together a guide on how to do just that on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. Unfortunately,
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