Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor: Social Media Is For Idiots

"I will be tuning out of the social networking sites because at the end of the day it's now doing more harm than good in the bigger picture and the experiment seems to have yielded a result," Reznor wrote. "Idiots rule."

As the object of adoration of millions of hard-core fans around the world, Reznor's riposte is attracting a lot of attention.

Reznor said he started using online sites but was quickly turned off by posters who turned legitimate conversations into virtual free-for-alls. He also singled out one particular Web site that he felt posted vitriolic comments, and said it has "hate and good old-fashioned outright blatant racism [that] are also encouraged to spice things."

Reznor also ripped the music industry as being out of touch with social media and its attempts to push record sales.

"The reason no record label knows how to market anything to new media is they don't live there," Reznor said. "They don't get it because they don't use it."

Last month, Reznor attracted a glut of media attention when he blasted Apple's decision to reject a Nine Inch Nails iPhone app update. The company sent back a boilerplate response saying that there was "objectionable content," given the content of the band's "Downward Spiral" lyrics.

Reznor posted Apple's rejection notice on his Web site and Twittered about it. He also compared Apple's strict app policy to Wal-Mart's stringent requirements about what it considers obscene content. Apple later changed its decision and accepted the app.

After ranting about social networking on his blog, Reznor concludes that he doesn't have any answers about how to fix social networking.

"Anyway, I'm bored on a long bus drive and there's no real moral to the story here, just writing," he said.