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To find many People on Mumsnet are fake!

167 replies

leavingabusetoday · 26/05/2024 20:18

im writing here litreally from observation of a few threads.
One the other day was about a song lyrics which was wrong being about anal sex and some of the posters made out the word sex was crude.
on one today about a women with a hangover all the comments was on 7 year old shouldn’t have been left till 10am.
there was one about a women missing a wedding with a newborn and many people were commenting saying the dad should come back that night (because imagine a women having to look after kids on her own for one night)

i read Mumsnet regularly and I find nearly every other poster to act as if they are middle class have a husband who works a good job. Have never left a child unsupervised for half a hour up to the age 10….

i don’t know if it’s me (I’m a single mum council flat which is temporary) but it seems everyone on here acts as if they live comfortably large houses if you read a thread in houses everyone’s got a en-suite I got 3 people in one room 🤣 and I’m not jelous I had a horrible life that I’ve left now have a degree and nearly a home of my own and I’m really happy just wondered if it’s fake Reply’s , fake OPs or that genuinely the demographic of users.

OP posts:
marie3e · 26/05/2024 23:08

stayathomer · 26/05/2024 23:05

I suppose it's because it isn't representative of most women. I use mumsnet, and live in a 2 bed flat, low skilled job, and I do think it's a bit weird no one's like me here

People regularly say this on here, that everyone is mc or affluent, I actually think there’s more lower income people struggling here, in fact if you posted tomorrow about a car or a holiday or a robot hoover or a cleaner you’d have a charge of people telling you you’re disgusting and tone deaf. I don’t think people allow mn to be representative!!

I know where you're coming from, but even in those posts, they're usually married, it changes it a bit

Ciderlout · 26/05/2024 23:09

Pdjhwifnf · 26/05/2024 21:03

I disagree about them not leaving their kids alone until they’re 10 - you’re a bloody failure on here if your 3 year old is not tidying the house, sorting their own supper out and paying rent!

Is Netmums still around?

😂

Hermittrismegistus · 26/05/2024 23:11

I know where you're coming from, but even in those posts, they're usually married, it changes it a bit

Is marriage unusual in your social circle?

Mumoftwinsandasingleton · 26/05/2024 23:11

marie3e · 26/05/2024 23:06

Content workers, journalists, the government ? Although, there is this suspicious atmosphere that almost every post I make is fake, and it is being taken a bit far

It's really bizarre isn't it? How do you even check the previous things that someone uploads?

Pixiesgirl · 26/05/2024 23:11

It's like the dating threads where apparently you are very needy for wanting 1 text a week, those saying such things have been married for 20 years and have no idea of the brutally crap atmosphere of online dating.

marie3e · 26/05/2024 23:14

Hermittrismegistus · 26/05/2024 23:11

I know where you're coming from, but even in those posts, they're usually married, it changes it a bit

Is marriage unusual in your social circle?

No, but it usually increases household income, and we are not really seeing the whole of society on this site

Makegoodchoices · 26/05/2024 23:18

I reckon as long as you feel horribly judged by half the posters and you feel like the other half are making terrible choices then you’re probably fine.

Ladymuck2022 · 26/05/2024 23:22

I’m not fake, if you’ve a spinal doctor in hiding please send them round.
Happily show them all these dodgy records and operated on twice. I’ve had enough and walked out on my family tonight as roast served so angry with it all. I would like to say I’m joking but I’m not.

Someone helped find a meeting where I can talk about all it next Saturday. Hope they’ve big ears to hear it’s 18 months of misery. Before age of 40 I was as
fit as a fiddle now I wait for the worst to happen - they are going to cut pieces of my bowel out.

All I did was go for a walk 3rd December 2022. I didn’t go out angry, didn’t have my foot roll under a can in the supermarket I just went for a walk. Please god.

Sunhatweather · 26/05/2024 23:44

TheaBrandt · 26/05/2024 22:49

Find it weird when people dismiss other income brackets as “not real life”. It is real life to them! Are only low income people living a real life?

👆This!!!

sf99 · 26/05/2024 23:57

thisraincangetfucked · 26/05/2024 21:31

I don't see the point of making stuff up on an anonymous forum and I don't often read a post and think "that can't be real because they don't live the same way as I do". People do have different lifestyles/incomes, that's just the reality of life.

I sometimes change minor details in case someone I know is on here though.

Exactly that.
Also, I think Op is remembering some more than others (higher earners, etc) because of who op is. And because of who I am (an immigrant) my subjective take is that there are a lot of immigrants posting (because of how lonely it can be when you live abroad, I guess).

SOxon · 27/05/2024 00:03

leavingabusetoday · 26/05/2024 20:18

im writing here litreally from observation of a few threads.
One the other day was about a song lyrics which was wrong being about anal sex and some of the posters made out the word sex was crude.
on one today about a women with a hangover all the comments was on 7 year old shouldn’t have been left till 10am.
there was one about a women missing a wedding with a newborn and many people were commenting saying the dad should come back that night (because imagine a women having to look after kids on her own for one night)

i read Mumsnet regularly and I find nearly every other poster to act as if they are middle class have a husband who works a good job. Have never left a child unsupervised for half a hour up to the age 10….

i don’t know if it’s me (I’m a single mum council flat which is temporary) but it seems everyone on here acts as if they live comfortably large houses if you read a thread in houses everyone’s got a en-suite I got 3 people in one room 🤣 and I’m not jelous I had a horrible life that I’ve left now have a degree and nearly a home of my own and I’m really happy just wondered if it’s fake Reply’s , fake OPs or that genuinely the demographic of users.

OP, this degree of yours… would it be Lang&Lit by any chance?

leavingabusetoday · 27/05/2024 00:13

My degree is in childhood study's I got a 2/1 I'll thank the dsa for supporting me with my adhd and dyslexia. You do realise some people have disabilities where spelling and letters and words might not read the same. It's like saying to a man with one arm who swims in the Paralympic who could be worst then you at swimming but with help and support it's possible. Never mind me having a degree I feel for if you have children who you make comments trying to bring people down.

This is exactly why I did the post all of the internet has fake things and mean people but on a website made for women and mums trying to ask for advice. You will see normally at least one mean comment that's only purpose is to put someone down.

OP posts:
marie3e · 27/05/2024 00:23

Well I hate the way people write on here. It's overread, and artificial.

blueshoes · 27/05/2024 00:29

LizTruss · 26/05/2024 21:37

I don't think that posting by @RishiSunak is really him.
There's something not quite right about it...
It makes one wonder if you can you trust anyone these days? 🤔

GrinGrinGrin

Femme2804 · 27/05/2024 00:35

I am tipical mumsnet here. SAHM, DH is high earner. I used to be a psychologist back home but my qualifications not approved here. But i’m not middle class. I’m not british. I’m from southeast asia. My grammar sometimes all over the place as english its not my first language. And lots of munsnetter thinks i lied. Why? Whats the point?. Maybe if people live unhappy life then they want to make a rich, happy persona on the internet. But not me. I’m quite happy and content with my life.

pizzaHeart · 27/05/2024 00:43

Octavia64 · 26/05/2024 21:59

I'm actually a dog,

Do you identify as a female or male dog? it makes a real difference.

sf99 · 27/05/2024 00:44

on a website made for women and mums trying to ask for advice. You will see normally at least one mean comment that's only purpose is to put someone down

Surely, that's because they are honest and direct. Not fake.

Safxxx · 27/05/2024 00:50

OP well done for turning your life around 👍 congrats on your degree and hopefully you secure your own property soon.

Cannotbebotheredactually · 27/05/2024 00:56

SOxon · 27/05/2024 00:03

OP, this degree of yours… would it be Lang&Lit by any chance?

Rude ,hope you enjoyed pressing the post button!

Hermittrismegistus · 27/05/2024 01:01

This is exactly why I did the post all of the internet has fake things and mean people but on a website made for women and mums trying to ask for advice. You will see normally at least one mean comment that's only purpose is to put someone down

You've started a thread about thinking other posters are fake. I don't think you can take offence or even be suprised when someone disbelieves something you have said.

Startrekkeruniverse · 27/05/2024 01:11

SOxon · 27/05/2024 00:03

OP, this degree of yours… would it be Lang&Lit by any chance?

What a dick thing to say.

marie3e · 27/05/2024 01:12

I don't get it

meganorks · 27/05/2024 01:18

I'm not sure they are fake. It's just much easier to give advice than to follow it. So it's easy to see from a post that someone should LTB, but the reality is much more difficult.

Starmer10 · 27/05/2024 01:20

blueshoes · 27/05/2024 00:29

GrinGrinGrin

Well @LizTruss ive also seen Starmer on MN 😉
It would be great to do a head to head

YourPinkDog · 27/05/2024 02:29

I do not know why people do it, but there are a lot of made up posts. Go to meet ups and you will find the mums are just ordinary mums.

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