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Do we actually exist?

(18 Posts)
M0nica Wed 06-Mar-19 18:23:30

There is a big article on the media page of the i today. An interview with the lady who founded Mumsnet and Gransnet. The whole article - and there is a lot of it, is all about mumsnet. No mention of Gransnet at all shock hmm confused angry sad

Riverwalk Wed 06-Mar-19 18:31:39

Well, I suppose Mum is 'sexy' and Gran isn't.

There's no doubt that GN is an off-shoot - I remember when Hillary Clinton was in town and we were allowed ONE question!

bastards grin

EllanVannin Wed 06-Mar-19 18:53:56

Well it is said that we're invisible---perhaps we are hahahaha

MissAdventure Wed 06-Mar-19 19:00:26

Perhaps we're all figments of our own imaginations.

Urmstongran Wed 06-Mar-19 19:01:23

We’re wallpaper aren’t we?
?

Cherrytree59 Wed 06-Mar-19 19:04:40

We don't bring in the big bucks ?

M0nica Wed 06-Mar-19 19:55:23

It would be nice to have a response from HQ about this.

Riverwalk Wed 06-Mar-19 19:58:07

Do you have a link to the article Monica? I can't find it.

janeainsworth Wed 06-Mar-19 20:06:18

www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/mumsnet-parenting-forum-justine-roberts-founder-a8803341.html
I think it’s this one Riverwalk but there’s a paywall.

BradfordLass72 Thu 07-Mar-19 03:38:34

On another thread, someone suggested we were really all avatars in some gigantic video game.

Or maybe as in H2G2, we are an experiment run by mice [grin}

petunia Thu 07-Mar-19 08:27:43

if no one can see us, we can get on with being quietly subversive. we could change the world and no one would see it coming

Riverwalk Thu 07-Mar-19 08:45:38

Thank you Jane

Aglassofroseplease Thu 07-Mar-19 09:15:33

Think what we can get up to, quietly hidden in the background

I love just slipping into conversation snippets of my history - like going on protest marches, and watching these young ambitious mums faces

Teetime Thu 07-Mar-19 09:34:23

I think therefore I am! I think.

Squiffy Thu 07-Mar-19 10:19:57

I think we're in a parallel universe!

Jalima1108 Thu 07-Mar-19 11:09:21

We're just after-thoughts
hmm

Mumsnetters perhaps forget that they wouldn't be here at all without us.

LaraGransnet (GNHQ) Thu 07-Mar-19 14:08:30

Hello! HQ here. Suspect the journalist chose a particular angle for that piece. Justine does mention Gransnet in many interviews and talks - wherever there is an opportunity in fact. Feel free to do the same grin - whichever universe you're in.

M0nica Thu 07-Mar-19 19:53:20

I hope you have complained to the i.