I think the real problem is the effect slightly poor enunciation has on the sound you make when you say "my RSS":
According to research from Nielsen/NetRatings, people are buying cutting-edge technology but often don't understand the terms that describe what their device actually does. So while 40% of online Britons receive news feeds, 67% did not know that the official term for this service was Really Simple Syndication. Terms such as podcasting and wikis are still meaningless to many...35% of online Brits had heard the term podcasting but didn't know what it meant and a quarter had never heard of it. Similarly with blogging, 34% said they had heard of it but weren't sure what it meant.There is a good reason they are meaningless - they are so 2004! Really. We all know that all you will have to know in the future is "youtube" and "yes, robot master...I obey". You laugh but note how blogs are becoming indexes for YouTube content.
This does speak more to the idea of "online Brits" than anything else, wouldn't you agree. There are natually different levels of bafflegab and acronym recognition as there are different levels of users and a huge number of internet users are there for the easy stuff, the fun stuff and that's about it. They do not care why anymore than radio listeners care about the meaning of FM or RF or how they work. And that is how it should be - the thing should just work.
