Friday Favorites and RSS or Follow??

Friday absolutely rocks! I totally have been neglecting my Friday Favorites lately, so I figured I'd try to start back up again in doing this and combine them with my Aloha Fridays. 

If you're here for Aloha Friday and frankly don't care of about my favorite things this week, then you can scroll down to the question.

While on a hike for pictures, my friend {Brittany} and I were talking and my 8 year old son actually said to us, "For pete's sake! Less talking more walking!" I'm telling you, people, the things that comes out of this kid's mouth is UN-NORMAL.... WOW!

Ella's vocabulary has EXPLODED! A few of my favorite new phrases, "Are you ready to rock?!?!" "NO WAY!" "SERIOUSLY??" She is just a total crackup!

The week was pretty laid back, so sadly those are the only favorites that come to my mind... oh, and we had WONDERFUL picnics... on Sunday we had one as a family and on Tuesday we had one with Brittany and baby Paxton.

OKAY! Now for {Aloha Friday}!!

I tend to take simple things and dissect them to completely understand the point. I know, it's a flaw, but I hate double doing something and if there's 2 of something I need to understand what the major differences are, and why choose one over the other.

When going to subscribe to a blog to get updates when they update do you subscribe via RSS or do you follow their blog?

I hate that there are 2 ways to do this and don't know which one is better. I notice that if I follow a blog their updates go in my Google Reader anyways. What do you do? I think I've decided to follow if there is a follow gadget on their blog, and if there's not then I'll subscribe via RSS. I tried putting the Google Follow Gadget on my blog, but it gets errors for some reason.... so I'm working on this for the people who like to follow more than subscribe.

I can't wait to hear other's thoughts on this, because it's something I know is SO SIMPLE, but I just need to know how other's determine which way to use.