The sharing "widgets" like this one fall under the category "do people really use those?" for me. I don't think I care to see the number of tweets, likes of an

The sharing "widgets" like this one fall under the category "do people really use those?" for me. I don't think I care to see the number of tweets, likes of an article I'm already about to read. Most likely if I opened the page, it's that I want to read it and a lot of "likes" won't make me read it longer if I don't find it interesting, or stop me from reading if it has none. (since any piece, good or bad, starts at 0) And I'm probably too conscious about my sharing towards others to click on the buttons to re-broadcast. But of course, I'm probably not the median user here :)