Do you think your mother would have appreciated GN

Oh no my mother wouldn't have enjoyed this. She'd have told everyone to take a running jump.
No, she wasn't one for any small-talk or anything like that.

In fact I only found out at her funeral that she was a member of some organisation as there was a huge wreath which said from the "Sisterhood", some Anglican thing ?

Yes, I'm sure my mother would have enjoyed it. She loved a bit of gossip, as most of us do, and would have given her twopen'orth on anyone in the news.

My darling mum was very sociable but I think coming on here would have been a bit beyond her.
She was a simple soul - in the nicest possible way - and loved doing her knitting, reading magazines and watching Crossroads and Corrie. She loved a cuppa and a chat - I couldn't have had a more loving mum but it was my dad who had an enquiring mind and would have loved the internet - but Gransnet wouldn't have been up his street!

She would have put a lot of judgy posts up, particularly about me, women (especially unmarried ones <hoists bosom>) and children who speak in public

My mother wouldn’t . Five children, 11 grandchildren, and friends she wouldn’t have been interested and for her what happens in the family stays in the family

Of course not. My mother’s thoughts, words and actions were the correct ones, everyone else was wrong. Always.

My mother would never have considered sharing her views with anyone outside her own set unless she thought they were, in her words, one of us.

In many ways, I am not my Mother’s daughter?

Terribull

My mother had lots of friends plus she had several sisters and brothers to confide in, bounce ideas off, if necessary.
My father, however, may have enjoyed the politics threads

No way! She'd have been convinced that she was being watched and her posts monitored by them!

I'm not sure if my mother would have enjoyed it. She was deaf ,not completely, but enough for her to find meeting people difficult and she never enjoyed being with large groups of people for the same reason. So she might have enjoyed being able to interact in a different way but writing didn't come naturally to her either because she always worried about her spelling so I think she might not have contributed But I do think she would have enjoyed reading other people's comments. She would particularly have liked the threads on cooking I think.

It would have been a waste of valuable time to my mum.
She could have ironed so many pairs of knickers, dish cloths and towels in the time spent online.

My Mum would have loved it, she embraced technology and loved company so what is not to like. However, her last few years were difficult and even the tv remote became beyond her capabilities. Mum would have been the first to suggest a meet up and a chat face to face with anyone she got to know on GN.

Not another knicker ironer MissAdventure

My mother would have grasped how technology worked immediately, probably more quickly than I did. She was very bright at things like that. She would probably have glanced at sites like this, been horrified at the way some people think, then dismissed it and gone back to reading The Guardian.

My father was still alive, in his 90s, when I first got online. I don’t think he understood what I was talking about, but he listened patiently and found it vaguely interesting, I think. He was the more sociable one of my parents.

Very definitely no. Did not interact with people outside the family, barely interacted with family to be honest.
Would share personal details and looked down on anyone who did so. Washing dirty linen in public was most definitely not done !

Would NOT share !

Well I was going to say No,
but then I remembered Pedants' Corner

My mother was an intolerant, bad tempered snob during her later years, and made something between a hobby and a mission of disliking and disapproving of almost everything, including me.

My mother would never have considered anything like GN. Beneath her!
My Nan, on the other hand, 92, would love it. I live on the other side of the world, so have no say in this, but family at home have never "allowed" her online. They think it will be like it is with her smart TV, mobile phone, bills etc, always ringing up and demanding help at the drop of the hat. So no computer for Nan.
I think it's a shame, she's still incredibly sharp and active, very social in her residential complex, life of the party. She's politically aware, quick witted, loves a gossip (she'd deny that!) Whenever I'm on here (I'm a youngish grandma) I think Nan would love this

Are we sisters Phoenix?

triplets chewbacca and phoenix

When I'm reading the comments, I often hear a little wind, a tiny cyclone - it's Mum turning in her grave

Not only would my mother have had a fit at the very idea of my putting any of "our private business" here, she'd have forbidden me to even join!

MissAdventure I've said it before but I'll say it again, I do LOVE your posts!!

Mum was a complete technophobe, she even struggled with setting her heating.
Disregarding that, she had no friends and didn't like "people knowing her business"

My mum didn’t “do” outside the family . She worked for over 30 years with the same group of ladies and never once socialised with them (they gave up asking). She was a very private person, hated bad language and would not have approved of discussing anything remotely risky.

To be honest she only had one opinion on everything and that was my dads .

In other words no she would not have liked GN.