But for some reason, a lot of workers, after a hard day of slogging away, like to get online and pretend that they are good at thinking.

Frustrating, ain't it?
Faux wisdom, expressing their soul sucking frustration of their chosen lot in life.
Conformity drones trying to appear as free spirits (in the Nietzschian sense) , and, I might add, failing miserably....

If self loathing self pity was a competition, many of them would be wearing gold medallions...