In the act 2 scene 2 of Hamlet, the world famous play from the greatest English writer William Shakespeare has a dialogue like this. Polonius : Do you know me my lord? Hamlet : Excellent well. You are a fishmonger . Before meeting Hamlet, Polonius met king Claudius and Queen Gertrude to talk about about Hamlet and he was planning on spying on Hamlet using Ophelia,his daughter. Of course Polonius was not a fishmonger , but why did Hamlet used this word? It has two more hidden meanings. In the Elizabethan era fishmonger had the connotation of a one who used women for profit . And fishmongers were from the lower class,they were loud and talkative . It's meaning is that he trades in cheap ways using frivolous words. So who are Facebook fishmongers?