What do you think of Gransnet?

AmberGran

Doodledog You could have been my twin...

Doodledog You could have been my twin...

apparently women are now deemed to have to try to be youthful and attractive up into their early 60's these days

Does it stop at early 60s then?

Cue .... relax 😂
Oops, too much grinning results in wrinkles.

This is a photo of me in my younger days. I've aged a bit since then, and was photographed without the knitted shawl I usually wear, but whilst some of you might be slightly less fashionable, on the whole I imagine you all look very similar.

apparently women are now deemed to have to try to be youthful and attractive up into their early 60's these days

Where does that come from??? I've seen a lot of 60+ women on YouTube doing beauty type channels and I've heard a number of 60+ women (me included) talking about skin care, beauty treatments. etc. but I've yet to see that they have to. Unlike teenagers I would have thought 60+ women were quite capable of deciding what they want to do.

"Dainty or delicate" indeed LOL LOL LOL.

Visions of wizened little old ladies.

errrrm....and takes no account whatsoever of the fact that - according to mass media - apparently women are now deemed to have to try to be youthful and attractive up into their early 60's these days ......#sighs.

Maremia

Are you kidding? Dainty and delicate?
I take it you have never read the News and Politics Threads.
Robust, lively and challenging. And there is nothing wrong with that.
Yes, and edit button, please.
Yes I know 'preview'.

I have never been dainty or delicate in my life. 😂

Even though I was a very skinny child, I was always getting scrapes, bumps, scratches from climbing trees etc.
Two left feet as well.

Are you kidding? Dainty and delicate?
I take it you have never read the News and Politics Threads.
Robust, lively and challenging. And there is nothing wrong with that.
Yes, and edit button, please.
Yes I know 'preview'.

There are plenty of Grans only 40yrs old or less

How many do you know?

I havent personally known any in decades.

There are plenty of Grans only 40yrs old or less, and I’m sure they don’t think they are “Grannies”
Most posting on GN are older, would 55yrs plus cover most ?.

2507C0

Some interesting and entertaining bits. Twee at times. And yes, not very reflective of the population after which it's named.

Can you elaborate please?

Twee: affectedly or excessively dainty, delicate, cute, or quaint.

😂😂😂

2507C0

Some interesting and entertaining bits. Twee at times. And yes, not very reflective of the population after which it's named.

Why don’t you think it’s very reflective of the population after which it's named?
What do you expect from grans?

Some interesting and entertaining bits. Twee at times. And yes, not very reflective of the population after which it's named.

Yes, I agree David1949!

My only wish is for a edit function to correct my typos

Casdon

The thing is I think, PaynesGrey that most Gransnetters aren’t that bothered about the appearance or function of the site either? The fact that the site is plain and simple to navigate has its pros as well as its cons I guess.

In a nutshell.

Aka Dimwit!

That's fine. I was just responding to the OP who thinks it's tired. I agree and think it's shoddy of the directors to neglect it year after year while putting all their efforts into MN.

The thing is I think, PaynesGrey that most Gransnetters aren’t that bothered about the appearance or function of the site either? The fact that the site is plain and simple to navigate has its pros as well as its cons I guess.

It's absolutely fine by me. Long may it continue as it is.

Yes, MN is making enough money to be withstand the loss but it does annoy me that the site is so out of date. Links that go nowhere, content that hasn't been updated in years. It must look like amateur hour to prospective advertisers. Why should they invest their precious media budget on a business that the directors couldn't care less about?

It provides a service, and the costs are absorbed into the costs of running Mumsnet, which is profit making, I guess. As far as they are concerned, the number of contributors is much less important than the number of views per day.

Well no but it's the same familar names most days with the occasional blow in with a lengthy saga never to be seen again.

There haven't been any suggestions about a merger. That was me wondering several pages ago why a business that the owners clearly can't be bothered with, that loses over half a million pounds a year, and probably has only a couple of hundred regular contributors is left to keep going.

Being old, a fuddy-duddy and a Luddite, I "do" the internet on my laptop. There is no way I would attempt to read anything other than a short text message or equivilent on a Mobile Phone (not that I use one other than, very rarely, a Nokia 1200).
Maybe because of this, I have never once seen any advertisement whatsoever when perusing Gransnet. Nor do I remember changing any settings to bring this about.

I would be prepared to pay a small subscription to retain this happy state of affairs, if necessary.

Posts and contributors aren’t the same thing though, you’d have to count up how many posts a day there are on Gransnet to know I guess. Mumsnet users also have the ability to change their names, so it’s hard to know if the same people are posting on there a lot. I’m not going to worry about it anyway, as there haven’t been any suggestions about merger from GNHQ as far as I know. We’ll have to see I guess.