TLS 523 The Internet Got Weird.. Let's Make it Fun Again

The Lively Show

Bella Lively

Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Today on the show I'm sharing something I've noticed, especially over the past few months (and really, the last several years) about the evolution of the internet. Have you noticed what I've noticed? I'll be sharing my experience over the last two decades online from blogging, to podcasting, to social media, and more. I will be reflecting on what the internet was originally like, and what it is now. Then, I'll be sharing what we have been building behind the scenes that will take ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Lively Show, where there's no more mountains to climb, only sky to stretch into.
0:17.0	Hello, my friends, and welcome to today's show. I'm really excited about today's topic.
0:22.5	And the topic title, the internet's gotten weird. I don't know if that's exactly the way I'm
0:27.7	going to phrase it. So whatever you've seen as you've clicked on this episode, I'm thinking right now
0:31.5	about talking about how the internet got weird and what we're doing about it to make it fun again.
0:37.0	So before I get into what we're going to do to make it fun again. So before I get into what we're
0:39.3	going to do to make it fun, I thought it'd be interesting as we're actually also, as it's now
0:44.2	early February, 26, close to 12 years of the lively show. I actually started this in mid-February,
0:50.8	2014, if you can believe it. So 12 years ago, I started and I was blogging as a blogger
0:56.1	five years before that. So I've been on the internet for a very long time. And I know most of you
1:01.1	are either creators of things on the internet or have been on the internet in some form or
1:05.9	fashion socially for business reasons, professional reasons, you name it, you've been using the internet for a very
1:12.2	long time as well. I was just thinking to myself, does anybody here listening to the show actually
1:16.5	know what it was like before, Facebook? And I'd have to say that my guest, based on the majority
1:21.3	of people listening to the episode, although we have children of our lively show listeners
1:25.6	with their little kids who definitely did not live
1:28.4	in a pre-Facebook era. Most of the listeners here, I would guess, do remember life before social
1:34.1	media and life before Facebook. I thought it would be interesting to talk about because I think
1:37.7	a lot of you are going to resonate with what I'm going to share. I'm just going to share
1:41.5	to start my journey with the internet and like the blogging years,
1:46.5	the podcasting years, and social media years and how it's evolved for me personally. I'd love,
1:51.1	by the way, I'd love, love, love to get your feedback on this whole story too and how this has
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