Other forums.

Have we seen you here before, Curlycut? The name rings a bell...

I only belong to The Ship of Fools and post there once in a blue moon. I went to look at Grannynet. They come across as a lovely supportive set of people. The emphasis seems to be for those grannies who are very involved in childcare. It does seem sad that anyone should seek to denigrate another forum. As has been said here before, if you don't like it, and it's not for you, then then leave.

Well jo7 I can assure you Grannynet is very much alive and a calming place to be why do we always have to slag it off! It does put me off this forum!

Mumsnet can also be hugely supportive to members. It is so huge there is a lot going on there.

Ga yikes so are we an off-shoot of the ghastly Mumsnet? [pulls in horns emoticon].

I am on Cloth Bum Mums, which is a forum for Mums who use reusable nappies (not the terries that we used to use but really pretty reusable cloth) because my DD is a WAHM who makes them. They are a great group of Mums who are trying to save money, and also not use disposables because of the waste issues. They are a very supportive group who occasionally have disagreements over certain issues but the people who run the group are quite strict and close threads if they become to argumentative, and also have a red card system for people who are trouble makers and they seem to have no problems with taking them off the forum. It is incredible how helpful these Mums are to each other, especially if they have lost a baby or have a sick baby or marital problems. It is a great forum and I love the fact that they accept me as a gran and chat happily to me and seem to appreciate my input too. I love it....

I too echo what ga says! No matter what, GN is too much a part of my life to leave it.

When I was in the midst of breast cancer and all the chemo etc. I did use the Breast Cancer Care forum, and found it really helpful, provided I stuck with the section that applied to me i.e. undergoing treatment. Wandering into other sections for people worse off than me was scary, although I admired the posters immensely. But I could ask the sort of "Has anyone else...." type question, about silly things that were happening to me.

I'm not on any other forums, and echo grannyactivist's last paragraph .
I've been here since the outset, having changed my name once.

It seems to be as usual, that the grass isn't greener then?
I've always thought that lots of you were on other forums, and I could never find any that looked interesting, but obviously Granset is top of the pops!

I've belonged to a few expat forums (lived in the ME). They vary hugely over time, and usually it comes down to a handful of regular posters, They set the tone, and over time they move on/get banned/get bored, and the whole feel of the forum changes. One I still pop onto (don't post) has gone from vituperative to very boring in 2 years. Is GN any different, I wonder? (Don't think we've hit vituperative yet )

Grannynet seems practically dead these days. And yet it attracts adverts, which GN doesn't seem to.

Hear, hear, GA.

I still can't believe I'm on this forum, much less any others. I was following a news article from Google news, which led me to a newspaper site, which in turn mentioned that Gransnet had just started as an offshoot from Mumsnet. I love being a granny so was intrigued enough to sign up and began to read the posts - and that was my downfall, because here I am still. My name is Grannyactivist and I am an addict.

(And no matter how messy it gets and no matter how many differences of opinion there are I cannot imagine leaving because at its best there is nothing like it!!)

I use the Kintyre forum, also registered on Holiday Truths, but rarely visit there now, it`s gone down hill too much. Also another forum which developed from another packing up, and is limited to present membership.

One of my DDs uses netmums.. she says it feels less ' on-trend' and 'yummy mummy' than Mumsnet and feels other posters are more similar to her.

Oh yes - we are all very supportive of one another. That's what it's all about.

But are they nice anno

My only other forum is one for people with polymyalgia rheumatica which probably wouldn't interest most of you.

I like moneysavingexpert lots of different threads on all sorts of problems, not just money saving and of course Gransnet but don't post much now.

Perhaps the ones who actually like their MiLs are afraid to say so in case they are mocked! Some grans here have complaints about their DiLs but not many of us have said how much they like theirs. I have and I do. Perhaps I'm doing everyone an injustice and just haven't read the right threads.

I had an interest in writing about mother in law / daughter in law relationships and I had a look on mumsnet. It was awful and it would appear that all daughter in laws (or should that be daughters in law?) think their mum in law is the spawn of the devil. There was not one good word that I could find. I have never gone back there.

Why on earth is Mumsnet so revolting? It sounds dreadful. Why would anyone spend their precious time on it at all?

I started with mumsnet just out of interest as I heard mothers at school talking about it,I found it so frightening that I just ran and have rarely gone back,maybe for a recipe or two.I spend most of my time on GN but am a member of two other forums,one very gentle and another well it just depends who is on at the time but they seem OKish but not like GN.

Just this one. Plenty of interesting topics to interest an old biddy like me.

I agree nanaej I tried Mumsnet, and found it too vitriolic, so came scuttling on here, right at the beginning. I love it here sometimes things go a little crazy but common sense and reasonableness seem to rule on the whole. I like the more robust threads, but I do tend to lurk on them rather than join in.