Why I'm Dubious About Social Networking

There's this site called Shelfari for people who read, and just now I saw a review of Hamlet by a certain David, and I got curious about what this David might have to say. Here it is, unedited:

Typical Shakespearean tragedy,he's not happy enough that the main character has to die, he has to always over do it and massacre the whole set. Not only that, but we have to listen to Hamlets never ending "whoe is me" and "I'm just so misrable I want to die" speach. I'll admit he's got a lot of witty lines, but enough with the self-pity. As for his alleged revenge, he is so wishy-washy. Like usual, Shakespeare may be entertaining to watch, but not to read.

In his defense, David has read a fair bit of serious stuff, and rated it highly for the most part. I'm glad about that, of course. But he obviously has nothing useful to say about any of it. That's the problem with social networking. Most people, quite frankly, don't have anything useful to say about anything. So I have to go along with that one friend of mine I mentioned a while back. He's a really smart guy, and one way he shows it is by not speaking negatively about people most of the time. But we were talking about energy policy, I think it was, and in regard to people's opinions he coolly said, "I'm really not very interested in what most people think about things." And that's why I'm dubious about social networking.