To find many People on Mumsnet are fake!

Please ignore the MN snobs! I promise you we're not all living off our husbands in big houses on the outskirts of London with tens of thousands in the bank, assuming everyone else is the same.

The ones I suspect to be fake are those who claim to be a highly successful lawyer/doctor/business person etc with multiple dcs but can spend every hour for days on end posting on MN, The Oxbridge threads are something to behold.

This. The net has always had an element of fantasy-land on it.🤷‍♀️

Some posts seem made up to me especially ones that reveal a bit more gradually in response to posters pointing out inconsistencies.

Could it be possible that some inadequate or lazy writers/journalists could be looking for ideas to write about?

Who know though? There’s nowt so funny as folk, as my mum used to say 🤷‍♀️

And im sorry OP but where i live, every single house has a small ensuite! Estate built in the 80s, the non estate houses round here are actually bigger and some will have two ensuites. Or more.

Yeah the 175k salary discussion almost floored me... 4k childcare a month 😮 I understand its horses for courses but I earn 24k a year up north 🤣🤣

Ive never lied on here. I live in south east commuter belt, i took that thread as 175k between two salaries based op saying "we" a lot but tbh i know lots of people where i live on 175k or more. Most have mortgages of at least what OP quoted, if not more. I did think the childcare bill was probably based on choosing an expensive nursery over a cheaper childminder though.

MN has always had a lot of higher earners/middle class types. Its a very skewed demographic.

Do you mean you can't place them? That this can't possibly have happened in their life cos that is not how I led to believe ?

What the fact that people 'accidently' find them? Or no one EVER finds files on phones??

I can assure you a good pal accidently found a whole load of grim stuff on her husbands unlocked phone... I was there...

She picked up 'her' ringing handset... Her and her partner had identical handsets...

I’m real, I don’t lie on here, what would be the point.

I'd be more honest on an anonymous forum than perhaps the times (daily) I can't say what I think

Not mean. Not fake

Just being an arse hole on purpose.

It's not unreasonable - every family I know is on significantly more. My kids are much older so thankfully I don't pay for childcare but pay for school fees x 2.

to OP no I've never left a child under 10 at home alone.

I think its the demographic of users tend to be more middle class. I prefer MN to similar sites because I feel like the advice isn't sugar coated (even though there are some dickheads).

Just for reference, I'm working class, we do have an ensuite but we're renting so that probably doesn't really count! We're finally on the verge of buying. I'm a SAHM and my husband is a civil servant.

I'm only educated to GCSE, I dropped out of A Levels and I've never had a job that's been much above minimum wage, I've never even been able to keep a job, I have ADHD and it's definitely hindered me. So I'm not your typical mumsnet high earner. Far from it!

P.S I was on the thread about the newborn and the Dad definitely should have come home that night 😆

Heaps are fake. Any post that involves someone accidentally seeing a bunch of messages on someone’s phone or accidentally finding folders on someone’s laptop ring bullshit to me

I've fudged my situation to avoid being found on here.

I've given advice that I know I probably wouldn't do but genuinely think it's the best option.

In the past there have been some proven liars, it was so funny..someone asked people to post pictures of their bedrooms for design inspo. One prolific poster who boasted constantly about being rich, put up a picture of a huge palatial bedroom. Someone did a Google image search and found it was a photo of a hotel room in Paris, from their website! Sadly some posters do lie and live in a fantasy world, perhaps because their reality is not so great.

I do not know why people do it, but there are a lot of made up posts. Go to meet ups and you will find the mums are just ordinary mums.

Well @LizTruss ive also seen Starmer on MN 😉
It would be great to do a head to head

I'm not sure they are fake. It's just much easier to give advice than to follow it. So it's easy to see from a post that someone should LTB, but the reality is much more difficult.

I don't get it

What a dick thing to say.

This is exactly why I did the post all of the internet has fake things and mean people but on a website made for women and mums trying to ask for advice. You will see normally at least one mean comment that's only purpose is to put someone down

You've started a thread about thinking other posters are fake. I don't think you can take offence or even be suprised when someone disbelieves something you have said.

Rude ,hope you enjoyed pressing the post button!

OP well done for turning your life around 👍 congrats on your degree and hopefully you secure your own property soon.