to feel confused by the level of affection one feels for nicknames on a screen?

[ClockWatchingLady]

I'm a bit late to the party, having only just discovered MN (never been on other "chat" type sites either). It really feels like people care about each other here, and (like countless others, it seems) I continually find myself "checking" on people on certain threads, and thinking about some posters' welfare very regularly.

I can't formulate my question exactly, but isn't it a bit weird that none of us really knows each other? Or do we? What does it all mean?! People who have been on MN a long time: do you feel that you have real "friendships" here?

[Sparklingbrook]

Really ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll? I have never heard of you. You obviously haven't been on any of my high brow intellectual threads.

[ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll]

Speak of the devil

stalker alert

I have seen your high brow and intellectual threads. Whats happening on this morning and poundland buys

[Sparklingbrook]

Ooh Tango flavoured shower Gel! Here

[ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll]

See! I told you you were PoundLand obsessed. When did it get a website?! Plus can you eat it?

Why would you want to go around smelling like Tango?

[Sparklingbrook]

It's for the grubby DC SPs. Soap dodgers the pair of them. I am having a proper bar of soap phase at the moment. Pears.

[thegreylady]

I love Mn and do have 'favourite' posters whose opinions I have come to value.I find it overwhelming sometimes to think that there are thousands of mumsnetters yet it feels like quite an intimate group.
I have only nc once in the years I have been here [except at Christmas] because I don't usually post stuff I don't want rl people to know.I wouldn't mind being recognised by folk who already know me but I wouldn't advertise my identity here.I was nearly 'trolled' once.

[mrsjay]

It's always a shock when there's a poster who you always agree with, and really value their opinion, and suddenly they post something you don't agree with.

I had that the other day with someone I thought Oh dear but i suppose everybody cant agree about everything

[mrsjay]

DD took tango shower gel away on holiday with us it really does stink I regret buying her it now, but she loved it she said she felt zingy

I love a this morning thread

[Sparklingbrook]

Well TM at the moment is awful. Baby Spice and Jamie Theakston? And Jeff Brazier.

[ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll]

I'm easily recognisable. I have shared something's that most people in RL dont even know.

I prefer to use MN as a laugh tbh. It seems to pass time.

I will go to poundland and smell this Tango shower gel

[mrsjay]

yeah i never understand the summer ending of TM and the next week it is T M summer It is awful though the lovely Dan from the Hub and Emma willis should present

[mrsjay]

is his name Dan ? the welsh bloke

[ThisReallyIsNotSPNopeNotAtAll]

I have a small crush on Dan. I love his voice

[Sparklingbrook]

I love Emma Willis. Can't remember the welsh bloke's name. He is singing on that awful 'Your Face Sounds Familiar'. Have you see that?

[mrsjay]

He is singing on that awful 'Your Face Sounds Familiar'. Have you see that?

nope dunno what you are on about its the final tonight

[Sparklingbrook]

I know. I was going to start a thread mrsjay.

[Beastofburden]

I am very newly back on MN and its a bit like having moved to a huge new campus full of people who have all been here for years. I am pootling around on AIBU, trying to decode the various acronyms and wondering what other fun places there are to chat on MN. Where are the silly places to have fun?

[Sparklingbrook]

Hello beast. I generally hang around in Chat. AIBU is a bit mixed if it's a laugh you are after.

Just post and see what happens, that's what I do. Try not to overthink it.

[Beastofburden]

Thanks sparkling!

[Sparklingbrook]

If you have just come back there are probably a few good Mumsnet Classics threads to read beast here.

[ClaraOswald]

I've always found Mn to be more of a community than most other fora. There are posters I recognise, ones who I can guess precisely what their first post will be. Like whenever anyone gets or thinks about getting a new kitten, Sparklingbrook is sitting there turning green with envy.

[Sparklingbrook]

Did someone mention kitten?

[RandallPinkFloyd]

MN is the only forum I've ever used so I felt exactly the same! I suppose I was surprised that it's so much more like an actually conversation than just 'words on a screen' iyswim.

I was amazed by how much people's personality comes across in what they type. I've been here a while now and I'm not well know by any means but there's plenty of posters I really enjoy chatting with. There's lots of posters that I find myself nodding along with almost every time (and a few who make me eye roll just by reading their name) but yes, it's amazing how you get too feel like you know posters.

I've never been brave enough to go to a meet-up, I almost went to a local one at the beginning of the year but I chickened out because I was too embarrassed by how fat I was. On the plus side it was one of my main motivators for dieting so all's well that ends well

Maybe I'll pluck up the courage one day but at the moment my complete lack of style, wit and class makes an MN meet-up seem rather daunting!

(Nirvana you're is a name that will definitely stick out for me because I'm guessing we are the same age and liked the same music!)

[lougle]

Parmarella, Riven is doing ok. She just likes to keep a low profile.

[lougle]

I love MN. I've met around 8 MNers through a meet up, all lovely.

I agree with those who've said that keeping a name helps. I just wish I had a better name!