#AD

[MintyT]

I don't know about you, but since the instamums posts I have really noticed the #AD on posts, and to be honest I had no idea I was so gullible. I loved the threads regards instamums and really think MN made a small change, well done us

Do you follow them? If so, why if they make you feel like that?

I've just unfollowed them all.

If I really interrogate my feelings on it, I think it boils down to these things:

From a personal ethics point of view I can't really square the whole child exploitation thing any more. I was on the fence about it for a while - ur bubz, ur rules hun - kind of thing. But actually, it makes me uncomfortable to the point where I don't want to be one of the enablers.

It's just about greed and consumption and shallow bollocks. With the exception of Mother Pukka, none of these woman have anything interesting to say. It's all just squealing over holidays and tat for the house. It's an insult to my intelligence and, in a nutshell, it's boring.

But, to that point, I think the reason it pisses me off is that I feel sad and angry that such shallowness and such greed is rewarded so richly. It's the 21st century and women have this huge reach and platform via instagram and they choose to talk about clothes and stuff for the house. And anyone who questions that is rebutted as 'unfeminist'.

I've given up trying to understand it. It's not for me, so I'm opting out.

Why did insta stoke this up again

At the risk of sounding even more like a 5 year old, MN started it!! Lolz.
No seriously, this thread was started days before the hashtagging thing took off.

Random, excellent post! My thoughts exactly.
Cady, she clearly wrote she’d just unfollowed them all bar MP in her second paragraph.
MoD seems to have the lost plot with all this angst.
I deleted Instagram some time ago. To me it is a shopping channel for exhibitionists who have no issues with exploiting their children for “stuff” ad nauseum.

I have a range of outfits I'd like her to model.

No problemo. What is the point of a toddler after all, if they cannot be put to work

Do hope toddlergobbo doesn't spoil all of your hard work by not looking suitably ecstatic. And don't feel bad if she cries and you are in the middle of a story. Just ignorw

Ah right Cady, so the #dearmumsnet was because of this thread? Or the trans stuff (which I haven't read)? And then MOD made it about her cos this thread mentioned her? That makes more sense, I wasn't aware of the timeline (the weather has just been too good to lurk online).

Spot on Random. I still don't follow them, but even when I reinstate the app it throws the same things at me - instamums and ladbible 🤷🏼‍♀️

There have been several threads started before the "campaign" and all fizzled and died off (you should know Cady, you popped up on most of them). This thread took off when the campaign to censor discussion on MN was started.

#parentingtheshitoutoffreeshit

Did any of the Instamums address the brilliant Hadley Freeman article? Or is it easier just to s**g off people on mumsnet.
I suggest they have a look on Twitter at what journalists and writers are saying about them because it’s not very ‘supportive.’

Susie has really disappointed me I thought she really got it.

Although social media is there for evryone to interpret as they see fit, for themselves, (and everyone including me loves a good filter now), I think it’s kind of nice for people to show the funny/disastrous side of parenting too. Because although we ALL know we go through the same sh*t, it’s good that people are sharing it and thing to find the humour and exasperation of it. Why not? Motherhood is a damn ballache, and it’s glld to know that you’re not the only one shouting at your tantrumming toddler 50,000 times not to eat a sweetie off the pavement.

*and trying. My Typing is crap today

To me it’s like, if you read Grazia or OK! Magazine, you know it’s a load of shite, and it’s all PR bollocks and made up stories and all the products featured are paid for advertising. You might read it as a guilty pleasure and then put it down and go ‘well that was fun but it’s all a load of shit, it’s hardly War And Peace is it?’ But with instagrammers it’s as if Grazia magazine then turned round to you and went ‘How DARE you?! You only want to read me because I’m amazing. I AM as good as War And Peace and if you don’t think so, you can’t read me any more’.

The mind boggles at the lack of critical thinking ability and insight evident in nearly every single instagrammer. Maybe it’s a prerequisite? Maybe you need to be that lacking in self-awareness in order to subvert the shame at being such a publicly greedy, smug, salesman.

I still like Susie she is good. I’m not sure it matters who her partner is she really does her own thing. I’m just disappointed... I’m sure she will be DEVASTATED to hear that.
The potty poo thing is awful.. sorry if my saying that means I’m bullying but it’s an invasion of privacy and appalling.

Motherhood is a damn ballache, and it’s glld to know that you’re not the only one shouting at your tantrumming toddler 50,000 times not to eat a sweetie off the pavement.

I completely agree. You know what was doing that long long before Instagram? Mumsnet.

Oh before deleting insta again I just looked at NB's story about mumsnet. Is there one of those great German words that means horror/hysteria. #dickhead. Yet again clear why MOD actually is so popular. Lack of competition. Cool funny mums are being cool and funny somewhere else, clearly.

Ah right Cady, so the #dearmumsnet was because of this thread?

I'd assume so, because the date of this OP is several days before the Insta hashtags.
Looks like they've seen it and thought enough is enough to me.

@porkiepiesky so was Babycentre, and I found it to be a bit too snipey and paranoid for my liking. But on IG it’s nice to see the faces behind the handles. I prefer IG in a lot of ways. More creative. I don’t get irritated by the fake stuff, I ignore it. Life is full of fakers, online and IRL.

#parentingtheshitoutoffreeshit

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Yeah , Bestbe they are all silent about the Hadley Freeman article weren't they. Has any of them addressed the kid on line issue? MP did a thing didn't she then started showing her eldest daughter on stories again.

@cadyheron love that they hate a hashtag campaign so they start their own to serve their own purpose. That’ll show em! 😆

lol Cady, how do they even find these threads? They must be scrolling incessantly, no? Why not stay off MN?

surfing seeing as they're parents too, it stands to reason they might be MNers too?
So likely to be on here. They're parents like everyone else.

Random I feel you!

Ive unfollowed most of them too. Feels better so far.

Why should they feel they have to stay off MN? They might want advice and other perspective anonymously too on parenting stuff. Like the rest of us.