Are you also on Mumsnet?

I have never posted on MN although I used to read some of the threads years ago, about the same time I first found GN. It's much like GN really, but with more F-ing and blinding and more posters. A few Google searches have taken me there when I was looking for something but although the question had been raised on there and lots of people had replied there never seemed to be an actual answer.

Yes, I like that as it’s a big forum there is less pigeonholing of posters.

Yes, I love Mumsnet.

I spend more time over there than I do here.

Mumsnet is often much more interesting than Gransnet.

I like Mumsnet, especially the feature where you can follow the whole of someone's thread.

I am on mumsnet but don't post. I'm shocked at how cruel and judgemental it can be at times and hate the foul language used at times. Can also be quite funny, especially the silly parking feuds. I only discovered gransnet and mumsnet since first lockdown. I spend far too much time reading posts!

I think it was Covid that turned me off Mumsnet
The amount of spoilt petty posts, the calling anyone who had concerns about large parties and gatherings during lockdown the gestapo, the stasi, nazis, the outrage at being denied a holiday abroad, the mulish insistence on going anyway and calling any poster who criticised them a fun sponge, the childish insistence that "I've done my own risk assessment and I've decided it's fine" ....

It was really unedifying. I kept thinking of that stoic British generation who fought in the war, or put up with 6 years of horrendous worry at home, air raids, their children going off to live with strangers in the country, rationing that went on for years and years.....

They would have been ashamed of some of their great grandchildren behaving like sulking brats objecting to mask wearing, acting as if a holiday in Greece was a human right and generally throwing strops about being asked to modify their actions to save lives.

I spend more time on mumsnet than on here. I find here a bit slow in comparison. I also love the anti DiL posts on here and the anti MiL posts on there. It appears to me that if they actually talked to each other rather than the a stance they may be able to work out their issues.

Beswitched- I get you. Totally understand where you are coming from. I do wonder, have we all had things too good and have forgotten how to deal with hardship? Don't get me wrong I find things as difficult as everyone else.

I used to be on MN & loved it.
It’s so much busier than here with so many threads every day.
It’s not unusual for threads to reach 500 posts in just a few hours, with threads of 1000 posts fairly common.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that here.

I read it occasionally, mainly the feminist board

I lurk and enter the competitions but find the aggression there a bit much.