Are you a secret Mumsnetter?

[CandidFruit]

Does your family/friends/colleagues know you’re on here?

Do you sometimes find yourself bringing up topics into conversation that you’ve read on MN?

Have you ever “caught” anyone on MN in public, or have been “caught” yourself?

Anyone on here who you think you actually would like to be friends with, based purely on something they’ve posted about or commented on?

I’d like to meet The Sistine Chapel Wailer 😆… I think!

My friend ribbed me mercilessly for being on a different site. So I snogged her. That shut her up! 🤣
Hey H ❤️

@Mystro202

Mystro202 · 07/01/2024 22:04

Sphynxcatenthusiast · 07/01/2024 21:40

I’m always referring to MN to my amused friends.
Obviously I don’t tell them my user name which I keep changing anyway.
Can I derail and ask how you change your username please? I have an android so maybe that's why I can't figure it out ( I see a few issues mentioned with android)

Go to settings top right of page.

Click “ change user name”

Save

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Every time I see the thread title, I think of R White's secret lemonade drinker...

#earworm

FFS. Really?

I think I am a secret mumsnetter. Clearly I am most likely kidding myself 😎

I’m quite overt about it. I say ‘I saw this thing on Mn. Do you suppose it can possibly be true?’ Not in the UK. No one else I know is on here. The kind of lives I see described as normal on here I simply don’t encounter in my RL. .

I read it out, people know I read it but I tell my DH i don't have logins and don't post.

But I'm a name changer anyhow.

My wife and adult children know (because I talk about it) and find it mildly amusing more than anything (I think) but they also seem to think it equates to reading trash in a tabloid.

I was once outed after a very personal situation I started a thread about was picked up by the bloody DM. I then learned quickly about name changing. I was really upset though.

In fairness, quite a lot of the time it is! Which is not to denigrate the genuinely good advice and support available, but you’re not going to be reading threads about potty training, career changing or mumps unless you are affected and how looking for them…

@DesigningWoman I agree - there's plenty of wit as well as wisdom here spiced up with a bit of batshit craziness. For me it's human interest - it provides me with a bit of perspective and insight into that lives of people I just never encounter. There is an lot of forums and content I've no interest in. Overall - I find it informative and heartening in way that some people want to support others but also saddening that some people have so much to contend with in life.

Yes, that it really for me — it’s encountering the unvarnished thoughts, assumptions and worldview of people I don’t encounter in my life.

I mean, I have a fairly wide variety of friends and acquaintances in several countries, because I like making new friends and have moved around a lot, but I don’t know anyone who is as obsessed with their house being clean, tidy and ‘visitor-ready’ as many posters on here, or anyone sitting about desperately hoping for a proposal from their longterm partner. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t routinely have opposite-sex friends, or who thinks it’s normal to ‘retire’ friendships once in a relationship, or who thinks going to the cinema is ‘date territory’. I don’t know anyone who comes home from work and gets into their pyjamas unless they’re ill. I didn’t know people considered the school run or having parents stay on small child play dates some form of social torture, or anyone who absolutely never has visitors or overnight guests.

It’s not that I don’t believe these people exist, I just find it fascinating that for some people on here, these are unquestioned ‘normal’ beliefs they believe are held by everyone.