Are you also on Mumsnet?

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

I read it occasionally, mainly the feminist board

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.

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 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.

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

Mumsnet is often much more interesting than Gransnet.

Yes, I love Mumsnet.

I spend more time over there than I do here.

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

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 they do seem to end up in the papers a LOT which is very off putting.

Thank goodness that MN and the internet did not exist when my Mother was young. It definitely seems to be a trend to cut people off if they upset you, rather than try to work on a relationship. I'm sure there's times when that must be advised even by a medical practitioner, in the worst situations- but these days it seems to be a way of coping, when it isnt. It's a way of not coping.

I looked at MN at the time I first joined GN. It was there I learned fir the first time about toxic parents and fairly detailed instructions how to go no contact, what a flying monkey was, ditto narc mothers, how not to give in if they plead, to be strong and cut these evil ones out of your lives.
Wow, this was all new to me and found it very sad. I am sure there must be more to MN but I didn’t bother to return to the site. Scared the life out if me go be honest.

Antonia, I used to be on it but stopped. Like yourself any difference of opinion resulted in someone jumping down my throat or mocking me. I really could not stand much of it.I left. Occasionally I may look at an article/posts but very seldom. Im also suspicious that every second story in that forum seems to end up in a certain newspaper.

To be fair to them Beswitched @ 13.59, they were probably just following the examples set them by Boris et al and decided if Boris and his dad could do it, why not them. Not saying they're right but I can see their point.

Sometimes I read posts on MN, but am not tempted to join. A lot of it would have been more relevant to me half a lifetime ago.

I find the attitude of many posters to Covid quite alarming. During Summer of 2020 when people were being asked to confine travel abroad to essential trips so many posted that they had 'done my own risk assessment' and on that basis were going to flout official and medical advice and go to Greece in holidays anyway

Yes, I'm on it, under a different name. Some of the threads are very trivial - things like "what colour shoes should I wear" and "my husband called me a name, should I leave him", that type of thing.

Yes.
Sometimes I'm on it a lot, others not.
I post replies sometimes, don't think I've started any threads on MN.
I've learned a lot about attitudes to all sorts of things and factual info as well.

Yes, I'm on it. I pop in now & then. They don't have games like us, I guess you have to be grandparents to want to play games! Lol
Some things are interesting, some not so. But I like to pop in occasionally.

I followed Mumsnet just for recipe ideas I wasn’t interested in the forums I was always too busy. Since becoming a Nan and retiring my time is my own some days I spend more time on Gransnet than others.

I joined Mumsnet long before I came to Gnet. I used to post on one of the education boards but I haven't posted since I retired.

I have seen some hilarious threads on there. Parking and cleaning/laundry threads are great for their general battiness but can be very time wasting.

I've followed the Westminstenders 'Brexit' threads since their inception because they have some very well informed and politically aware posters. Just as a lurker, though.

I think it's good to keep an eye on what younger people are thinking...

I occasionally pop over to mumsnet. I like the feminist and political/news discussions.
There are some well informed women posting. The readiness with which many posters see men using porn, or believe partners should join them to improve sex lives is something I find dispiriting

No, although when I was thinking about moving to various places around the country, I did find the most useful and balanced comments came from posters on there. Otherwise, I don't find it relevant to me.