To speculate on the Typical Mumsnet poster ?

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I've been thinking about the typical Mumsnet poster and I'm thinking it would typically be the mum in the 'Outnumbered' family -

Middle class

Living in London

Living in traditional house as opposed to on an estate

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I took this group photo on my last mumsnet meet up. We were all so different, zany and a bit mad!!!!

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Their fridge cost £2,500 in 2001
I know because I had the same one (got it for £2,200 after months of price stalking)
(it lasted me 20 years)
But totally unrealistic for their supposed lifestyle

Love this.

I am a mother

Would say I am middle class (but even then it is open to interpretation on mumsnet... what does it mean to you?!)

Traditional house

Not London though

Working class.

Live nowhere near London.

Live in a rented ex-council semi detached.

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Completely agree. That is what is so good about Mumsnet - it's literally everyone - globally too.

I suspect MNers are more varied than suggested by the OP.

However.

When I lived in the UK I fitted the OP's criteria.
Now I'm in Australia, I still do, though my house is Victorian by virtue of being in Victoria.

One slight difference is that I'm MC due to social mobility; more readily available to those vulgarly referred to as Boomers, which is a male kangaroo here.

Working class
North east England
Live on a housing estate

There's definitely no 'typical poster' on here imho.

So have I. I wasn't the right demographic then (too old) but it's indefinably got niches of similarity to its origins. At some point you could find out what number poster you were... I think I was something like 11000. Laughable to think that you could all agree to rock up in a field for a few days camping.

I live in a house no idea if its typical, in Sri Lanka.

There's no typical MumsNetter. There's also such a variety of people and lifestyles that there's no stereotypical or average MumsNetter.

What there is, are posters who think there's a typical and think that whatever the typical is, isn't them.

As shown by threads that are a variety of what's the typical MNer, such as the current one what MN hates about you (paraphrased). There's always answers that are polar opposite.

Think it depends on what thing that poster is paranoid or insecure (to varying degrees) about themselves.

Rent a tiny flat in an area you don't like because it's all you can afford? Then 'everyone had a four bed detached property in the suburbs with 100k income'.

See all more minor unimportant things such as toilet brush ownership.

I also think that for some, whatsoever is their "thing" they then lie about it on here and keep mentioning it. So there seems to be loads - empty vessels make most noise effect.

It always surprises me when someone points out "the type" on Mumsnet because there is clearly such a range of age, income, education, life experience, gender, politics, religion, location and attitude. There are millions of registered users, after all.

Yes, there are plenty of posters who fit the OP's stereotype - but plenty that are a world away from that.

And I am surprised when posters believe that so many Mumsnet lives are made up by envious fantasists as if it's not possible that millions of people live a very different life to their own.

Some people earn £200k. Some people earn £10k. Neither are typical but both types of people are able to post on Mumsnet.

The biggest bias, as someone pointed out up thread, is that a typical Mumsnet user is more likely to be in the category "people who like typing their shit out onto the internet."

Don't know what class I am. My DC are middle class I would say.

No longer live in London.

House is traditional.

Nope I live in Spain next to the sea in an apartment with grown up children

Yep! Pretty much my impression too.
Though there is another group, earning over £100k, private schools,holidays in Southwold, Oxbridge aspirations..

I think the amount of introverts or socially anxious people on MN is high by the nature of it being a forum.

I live in a very nice leafy road with Edwardian houses and houses built in the twenties. Decent household income, RG University, DH Oxbridge. When it comes to class my family were immigrants and I am not white and don’t worry about what class I am, I do speak with an RP accent as my parents wanted us to speak correctly. My ancestors had actually been very wealthy until the communists seized everything from my Grandparents.

Husband cycles, to tell you this would be akin to sending you a screenshot of their bank balance, address, name and dob.

That was the initial demographic mumsnet is much broader than that now.

There's one of everyone on here , you can't generalise.

Not me. I'm a granny, working class, live in East Midlands, in a nice but not posh suburb

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Sorry for people who've asked

'Estate' can mean council or private

Nope, not me.not at all.

I honestly think the typical MN er is a carbon copy of Sue from Outnumbered!