To find many People on Mumsnet are fake!

Is it one of those tiny yachts for poor people?!

My yacht has five ensuites, not counting crew quarters.

Some people have enough money to do that though. Some people are rich, Some people are poor. Are rich people not allowed to have problems or post in the internet?

I live rurally. Why do you assume that's a lie? I genuinely don't understand.

There is some fakery, but I don’t think that represents the majority of the posts here.

I live in a HA property in Zone 6, but we’re surrounded by houses the likes of which people describe on here.

Of my daughter’s friendship groups, three of the girls’ live in a minimum 5 BR home - all occupied by 2 adults and 2 children and with individual en-suites. The only difference to MN threads is that 2 of the moms have high flying careers and the third a very good career.

I may not be not live that lifestyle, but I appreciate it does exist, so don’t assume people are faking it on here.

Not if you just poo in another bathroom. I use my en suite for showers and middle of the night wees. We have 2 other bathrooms but we also have 5 people in the house so the more showers the better really!

I see people claiming that it must be fake because "no mother would smoke weed around their own toddler" I know of at least 2 people who did just that and I get irrationally wound up by those posts lol like they are calling me a liar because I happen to know people that they claim don't exist 😂

Going off topic, but I think en suites that are in a completely separate room to the bedroom either part of the original build or a converted room generally seem to keep noise and smells out. Unlike ones put in to existing bedrooms with stud walls which may be whiffier and not as sound-proof.

En-suite a Life saver now I’m up 3 times a night for peri menopausal bathroom trips 🙄

Why wouldn't you use downstairs loo for poo and just use en-suite bathroom to shower and pee?

Having a wry smile at the posters who 'know' who is or isn't genuine or can easily spot a fake or trot out percentages of fake v genuine on MN. In reality they have no idea - just like the rest of us. We can all make a best guess, but we don't know for sure.

Fake? Probably a few but I take most posters as genuine.

Deluded and bonkers? Aye, there’s many of these people about!

I've never had an en suite and proud of this fact ! 😂 it's my badge of honour

😂

I had an en-suite on our last home. I hated it, and essentially cordoned it off. Because yes it’s like having a poo in your bedroom and the smell comes through too

The hangover thread is hilarious. Posters claiming the 7yo has a “ruined childhood” and that he’s a “young carer” - all because ONCE he took his mum a biscuit and some squash 😂😂 I have NEVER met people IRL who’d say anything like this. Even the very odd people I know wouldn’t trot out this shite. I can’t decide if people on here REALLY think that and must suppress their true selves IRL, or if they don’t think that and, for whatever reason, just enjoy sticking the boot into every OP they come across.

I cannot bear ensuite bathrooms. Just a partition wall between my plopping and DH inadvertently listening? And then a bedroom full of poopy smell and mould-inducing shower steam? No thanks.

Obviously there are fake posts on MN, but having quite a big house and busy children, a husband with a good job, and/or a good job yourself - these are not at all unbelievable or unusual things, so I don't know why you would think people are lying. There's a big class and socio-economic range on MN, but there are definitely plenty of financially fairly comfortable middle class people. Why wouldn't there be?

This is the Internet, Mumsnet is not some special place.

At least 30% of posts will be completely made-up. Another 40-50% will be sanitised, massaged posts designed to paint the OP in the best light possible and the target of their ire as the worst human ever to live, because they want validation and not actual advice.

Basically, you can only rely on about 20-30% of posts to be genuine. The trick is to find them.

I don't think there's any benefit to be gained from faked responses

The mumsnet demographic isn't fully representative of the general population as some socioeconomic groups are a lot less likely than others to have the time and inclination to use a forum like this.

The fawning on those threads is sickening.
Please put this in classics
I've just spat out my tea
I've woken my cousin who lives on Mars I've laughed so loud
They're amusing at best, but loads of people will claim to be 'howling'.

Just because someone appears to have a different lifestyle doesn’t mean they’re fake.
I’m always baffled by these “only on MN” “parallel universe” comments, like people really can’t get their heads around people who are different existing.

You can spot the fake threads when they fill up quickly and go into a series of threads with silly titles. Thread 1 - “Wwyd, my next door neighbour is spying on me?”, thread 2 - “peeping Tom, my spying neighbour cont.” thread 3 - “Peeping Tom goes rogue”. Posters lap it up and it’s so obviously someone making it up.

My life would probably be considered fake, but it’s not.

I like mumsnet because I don’t know anybody in RL who is in a similar position to me and it’s ok to talk about money if you’re anonymous.

I believe the people who say they’re rich; there are certain usernames that I recognise that must be in a similar position to me based on how they post.

Gosh, I am surprised you don't know anyone who doesn't own a car in London. I'd say it's 50/50 amongst my friends there. Parking so appalling and public transport so good that I suspect it will move even closer to non-car ownership.

Agree. Netmums on the other hand, seems very different.