My opinion on blogs

So it took me a really long time to actually start a blog because to me they always seemed so pretentious to me.  Why is it so many people in the world think that everyone is interested in their every thought? I mean, I'm not exactly the authority on what should interest people, but to to me, to assume that your every thought is a gem worthy of posting and having friends, strangers, and your neighbor's beautician's dog read seems to be just a little bit narcissistic. I mean, I certainly wouldn't want my personal journal published for the whole world to read at leisure (by the way, I think Anne Frank is on the other side yelling at her father for publishing her private thoughts and feelings).  Maybe that's why people write blogs...it lets them announce their thoughts and feelings under their own jurisdiction.  And there's the case in point: people don't write blogs because thei expecting their thoughts to become the next great American novel; they're writing them because they need to be said.  The End.