Would your mum have been on Mumsnet, if it had been around in her younger days?

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I'm absolutely convinced my mum would have been on here, and probably got into lots of arguments on AIBU because she was very opinionated in her 30s/40s.

Does anyone else feel the same?

No. Bit of a techno phone but she also would have thought it a waste of time. She was much more a real life person.

My mum would have been appalled by the language 🤭

Mum would have loved it. I know DD lurks on here sometimes so soon there will be whole generations of mumsnetters trying not to Out each other.

No. She was a law unto herself, her children were her property, she considered school expecting to know anything as outrageous.She would have looked down on and sneered at MN.

I doubt it. She took to computers and internet use with great enthusiasm in later life, but despises social media to an extent that verges on paranoia. We're "not allowed" to use That Facebook on her Wi-Fi log-in because we might let in baddies who will ransack her bank account.

And also, she'd have fallen out with someone, deregistered and started a campaign against the site in less than a week. She has form in real life.

Fuck no. Not with taking about s.e.x.

No because she knows it all and always has.

Maybe. She’d have been one of the cool wife types defending men’s bullshit.

No, because she would be too busy dashing about everywhere. She thinks you only sit down during the day if you're ill or unbelievably lazy.

She would have a conniption fit if she knew how much time I spent sitting about reading MN and eating crisps.

Nope. DM regarded the internet as pumping pornographic filth into your mind the minute you switched on a computer. The fact that she'd never actually used a computer didn't matter.

If only! She'd have had her consciousness raised about her shit marriage, how Dad's silent treatment was unacceptable, and that she shouldn't have tried to "stay for the children" because we knew and we hated it!

And then she'd have used her experience to be an amazing support to other women.

♥️♥️ Love my Mum!

She'd have been a troll. Or the one poster who consistently reveals herself to be ruthlessly judgemental with no compassion for anyone but herself.

My Mum is a bitch.

Interesting that most replies are definite, one way or the other. I can imagine my mum flouncing in the end!

Yes. And she would have been a right laugh but also would find herself being banned eventually I think.

I remember introducing her to a chat room circa 2002. She had already had a few drinks and thought it was hilarious to chose the name "Pat" as a username (her real name was a lot more unusual and exotic). Then she basically catfished a bloke who said he was a 45 year old baker from Wisconsin by pretending to be a 70 year old woman who was travelling the world spending all her dead husband's money.

I was 13 and so embarrassed and trying to tell her about internet safety etc. but all she did was lie to this bloke all night then ghosted him. Then she never showed any interest in going on the internet ever again.

She'd have been a teeny-tiny, 7-10 figure earning, husband from the landed gentry superwoman, simply adored by everybody, total parenting/healthy eating/dieting/animal care/home design/style and beauty/the Royal Family/I know more about all those dramatic news stories than you do guru on here.

Let's just say it wouldn't have been an entirely accurate portrayal.

My mum wouldn’t. She was very “don’t wash your dirty linen in public” and wouldn’t dream of posting about anything.

My mum would have been here for the advice, but not the chat. She likes to know what she's doing and was, by her own admission, clueless about parenting so would have been here asking all the questions.

She'd have been told both me and my brother are ND/autistic (neither of us diagnosed with anything). I wonder how our lives would have been different!

Mine would have been on netmums, not here.

I can't imagine her online (born in 1915) but she loved Houseparty a TV show in the 70's. Rather more gentile, than Loose Women. Woman like to discuss matters important to them, both serious and trivial and hear other points of view.

My Mother would have been absolutely scathing towards SAHM. She would be close to 100 if alive and was a career driven trailblazer after her younger life on stage and as a model. She ended up as a manager for a large multinational company in the entertainment industry. She also survived three heart attacks outliving all her four husbands, yes that’s correct four. We used to call her The Merry Widow.

She would have been banned for sure, her best advice to me was always earn your own money. She made quite a bit of money trading and loved Thatcher.

My mum not a chance.

I'm in my 70s and yes I would have been on it in my younger days.
It would have helped me enormously during a crappy marriage when I had no one to talk to. I don't understand why most of you think your mothers wouldn't have been on it.

My mum is on mumsnet now! Hi mum 👋
She’s 67.
She’s also on gransnet.
I don’t think she posts, just lurks, but she’ll often mention something she’s read here.

My mum would've been terribly sniffy and dismissive about it at first, then at some point she'd have become completely addicted to it.

I can imagine my mum having a similar journey!

On one hand, I think my sister and I might have had much better parenting if she'd been able to accept advice here - but on the other hand, the advice would presumably have been the reigning 1970s parenting gospel ("AIBU to whack my kids with a slipper when they're cheeky" "YANBU, six of the best never did me any harm ..." ) so maybe not.