I find in my old age that I have little patience for people who publicly write for themselves and not for others. If you want to masturbate, cool, I love it, do it in private. If you want to enrich others, the less you waste their time the more people you'll be able to reach.
It's not like web pages spontaneously run into your home and throw themselves in your face. Simply publishing a blog to the web for those who happen to seek it out lets the audience themselves decide what is public what is private.
The audience still has complete control over the use of their own time.
So are advertisements posted on the street outside your house.
Those take up physical space and a region of my visual field, which are both finite resources in ways that the web is clearly not.
I think most journaling falls under this category -- there is a reason it is called a "brain dump", heh.
It’s very obvious when it comes up in my feeds that people are doing it to appeal to their managers and review committee.
We are in no way a leader in analytics, so I feel bad for those who consume this content, which is put out by people with 3-6 months of professional experience who are trying to pass it off as authoritative and universal.