Selective presentation
No doubt, in common wth other 'subscription' type models on Facebook, they'll only present users with a subset of the posts in an RSS feed.
Flipboard already.
Facebook has sent out invitations for a press event on June 20, and it's widely rumored to be the announcement of a new RSS reader aimed at scooping up disaffected Google Reader users. In March, Google announced it was going to shut down the Reader system on July 1, saying that the number of users had declined over the years …
I am one of those who make good use of Google Reader. (It's probably the only reason I actually sign in to Google on my computer on a regular/frequent basis - so they'll be losing that sign in once it goes).
I will not be setting up a new FaecesBook account* to get RSS feeds through them.
That is all.
* I used to have one, but I "deleted" it earlier this year.
I'm still utterly bemused as to why google is shutting reader down. I'm undoubtedly naive, but it never struck me as something that was costing millions to support. It was just a nice simple tool that worked really well (and surely gave google wonderful information on what stories interested me, and which didn't).
Not just the Reader platform itself, but the way other apps could be plugged into it - get a new podcast player and it just took a couple of clicks to point it to me reader profile to get all my feeds.
@Dieter - "The idea that you would need an account with a third party in order to read/manage/aggregate RSS feeds is ludicrous."
I imagine the requirement for you to have an account is so that the provider has the opportunity to monetise your use of the service. Regardless of what you think of Google/Facebook/etc., a charity they are not.