Attention-saurus Rex

Sometimes I wish I could put the earth in a glass jar, hand it to someone, and see if they still wanted it. If they still wanted to hold all eyes and all focus, because I don't think they would. In fact, I think they'd look at me with a puzzled expression and ask me why I had given it to them. Why had they deserved all the world in a jar? I'd say: "because you seemed to have wanted it. All the attention from all the people you know was never enough, so...here ya go." There are people who can take a story about an elephant eating a funnel cake and revert it back to themselves. These people also like to chime in with random factoids about themselves out of nowhere, literally, nowhere. For example, you'll say: "Hang on a sec, I gotta tie my shoe" and they'll stand quietly for a moment and wait. Then out of nowhere, this will happen: "Dude, I was talking to my mom this morning and she told me I was pretty." I'm considering theories as to why this happens with people you may or may not know. Are there people genetically configured to need consistant attention from everyone around them? I'd say that if we were to look at the evolutionary standpoint, these people would be the "distractors." You know, like...here comes a dinosaur right? A big bad fella with sharp teeth and here we are, the little...non-vicious dinos and we're all lookin' at each other like "Ohhhhh shiiiz" and so what do we do? We push the distractor out of the foliage and into view of the big bad guy so that it can do a little dino dance, because that's what it loves to do! It would gladly take the heat as long as someone was watching it do tricks and trying to be all badass. I only write so passionately about this, because I've run into so many dancing dinos around these parts. Why does it have to be "look at me! Look at me!" when it could simply be "here I am, take it or leave it. I am what I am." Where's a dino trainer when you need it?
Has our generation gotten to the point where we are incapable of listening and so we thirst for direct attention all the time? We embellish stories to the most bizarre level, here's what really happened to..."sally":

Sally sees an old woman crossing the street with moderate difficulty, so she walks up and offers help, but the old lady confidently yet gently refuses. After this, sally goes and meets her friend Jonathan for lunch. Here's what ensues:
Jonathan: So wait, what happened??!
Sally: I innocently asked this old geezer if she needed assistance and all of a sudden she started beating me with her cane shouting "THE DEMON, SAVE ME FROM THE DEMON!!" and then she sprouted large wings and flapped herself up into the darkening sky. 
Jonathan:....dude, no friggin' way?
So many embellishments non? I'm not saying that I don't embellish things every now and then, because sometimes, that's the only way people will listen, and I also find it hard to listen when I have something to say that I'm stoked about. However, we must begin a movement to politely hush these dancing dinos and sallys of the world because frankly, there isn't enough energy in the world to quench their thirst for attention.