To ask if you have ever met up with friends you have made on Mumsnet?

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Just curious really....I am on another thread (under a different name) and enjoying the connections I am making there, I can quite imagine meeting up with these people in real life. Has anyone done this? And how did it go?

Not from mumsnet, but was part of a Babyworld spin off group on facebook, and quite a few of us met in Leeds a few years ago. Some of the group made strong friendships and still meet up now. Mumsnet seems too big for that sort of thing, and the whole Daily Mail twats puts a nasty slant on everything nowadays.

I have met quite a few and we talk daily now.

Yes. The first time I plucked up the courage to meet a MNer was because, although she lives miles away from me, she put a 'shout out' for some friendly faces to say hello to her en-route from her home to where she was going - coincidentally close to where I live. So I said I'd meet her at the station at my end. She was doing this journey once a week for about 6-8 weeks and I met up with her each time. This was some years ago and she has become a good friend. Because of geographical distance we don't see each other very often, but try to meet up at least once a year - and we keep in touch separately from MN.

After that, I then threw myself into some of the London meet-ups - and have been to a good few of them over the years. They're great fun and I've met many lovely MNers.

I met people on here about fourteen years ago, we are all in contact on a regular basis.

Not on Mumsnet, but back in the Handbag forum days I met quite a few people who I am still friends with now

Me too.

Wow!! Heartwarming stuff!! Really had no idea so many people were transferring their online relationship ships into real life ones!! Feel much more confident about suggesting a meet up now

What was the handbag forum?

Yes, the ladies on my antenatal thread moved to a Facebook chat. 2 years on we still chat every day and meet up for play dates and nights out all the time

Handbag was a big forum until it slowly died a death after upsetting most of the members and finally closing about 4 years ago. They tried to separate the parenting boards which led to most people with children jumping to spin off board Damsels.

I was a big fan of the Fashion and Food and Drink boards and the Relationship board was always gold on a Sunday night.

There were some real characters on handbag. Lots of fallings out and various spin off sites.

Thanks simply! Weirdly had never heard of it

Sounds like a bit of a soap opera

It was a great forum, smaller than Mumsnet so you knew a lot more of the posters but still big enough to have a decent cross section.

Yes I have, a group of us. We are still friends now 6 years after our first thread on here. I love them like I do any other friend.

I think it's fascinating how a friendship can build on a forum like this.

Even more so when it's not necessarily on one thread with a common purpose.

You read posts that you agree with and realise it's often the same person.

You read posts that make you laugh and it's the same person.

Something happens that is a bit sensitive so you PM, hoping they agree.
And they do!
Well, they say they do yadda yadda.

And then you've made a friend, who you've never seen or spoken to.

They might be younger than your children or the same age as your mother.

I think it's quite special.

Have met up with some people from antenatal group. We keep in touch on facebook.

I have met up with several people from a wedding chat website. Even attended a wedding of one! Again we now have facebook groups.

Dh laughs ay my internet weirdy friends but he forgets i moved to be with him, niw live fairly rurally and work 1.5hrs away so little chance to make friends . My friends online have kept me sane.

Yes, I have a group of ladies I met here on MN while TTC. We all ended up having children at different stages (some have kids who started primary school, whilst I had a newborn!) but we've met up many times over the last few years and I consider them all some of my closest friends

No, nothing happening in my area when i looked on local bit (not london now as left due to cost of housing)

Alas, I probably never will because I'm in the States and from what I can tell there are only like five of us on Mumsnet and we all live exactly 513 miles away from each other.

You could start something london, I know it's easier to say that than do it but I've seen it work on here.

Someone starts in Chat - I've just moved to xxxx, anyone want to meet for coffee.

Some of the local sites are a bit tumbleweed which is a shame.

That could be tricky Galen, mind you 500 miles is lunch distance in the States isn't it?

I have. Once through a thread where a MN'er was stuck in hospital with no supplies so I dropped some off to her, and the rest through going to a couple of Meet Up's.

I also have a few on my FB that I hope to meet someday if I'm ever in their neck of the woods.

Not (knowingly) met anyone from MN but I made friends on a different parenting site and I've met up with some of them. We've been friends for around 10 years now.

I have! Met a great group of ladies on a dieting thread in 2011, last year! We chatted for a while on MN, then set up our own private fb group.

We all live in different corners of the UK so met in London for lunch. It was brilliant! I have no shame in telling people we met on MN, even though it seems others think it's cringy or embarrassing.

Sorry, that was as clear as mud. We initially met on MN during 2011/12, then met in RL for the first time in 2016.