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Gransnet is live! Please tell any differently aged persons you know about it!

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JustineMumsnet · 05/05/2011 08:39

Hi all,
We've launched Gransnet today. It mimics the Mumsnet format but is for Grandparents, so they can chat about and pool ideas on their grandchildren, hobbies, relationships and anything else they fancy. If you know any Grans please do point them to Gransnet.com. NB any Grans on MN who'd rather hang out here are most welcome to do so and under no obligation to go to Gransnet but if you fancy taking a look, please feel free. (You could always do both Smile)
Any feedback is very welcome here. Txs

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cheesetoastie · 07/05/2011 08:07

I've found the bigger text button now, but that makes all the links at the bottom of the page merge with the Preview and Post buttons so now I can't post.

Shoshe · 07/05/2011 08:19

Have joined, cos I am a Gran Grin

RustyBear · 07/05/2011 08:24

Maybe we could open a BBBBAAAAAARRRRR over there....

GwendolineMaryLacey · 07/05/2011 08:30

So are the user names started from scratch over there? Could I be AnyFucker...well, AnyFlipper given the lack of swearing. Or Cod? :o

DD is only 3 but I'm going to register just to say I was there. I would tell my mum about it but then I'd have to explain the concept of the Internet and show her what a computer looks like.

sumum · 07/05/2011 11:13

I think all user names are up for grabs, I have registered under a different name so I can't be traced back here

DottyDot · 07/05/2011 15:31

Awww - it reminds me of Mumsnet a gazillion years ago - all new and hardly any threads! Grin

BecauseImWorthIt · 07/05/2011 17:15

I'm sorry to be sniggering, but the complaints about the logo are really making me so, especially this one:

At least put the gran in a nice blouse from per una

GrinGrinGrinGrinGrinGrin

jugglingjo · 07/05/2011 18:29

Hi Justine

  • I've been over for a quick look at the new gransnet site.
Looks like perhaps you can't give any feedback there without joining, so I thought I'd just share some thoughts here if that's OK.
  • I see you have a link on the home page to "Do's and Don'ts for grandparents"
When I read through this I felt it could perhaps be a bit off-putting to some potential new members of gransnet It is, after all, a site for them. Thought this section seemed a little as though it was written from a parents perspective. I'm sure you get my drift. Just trying to help with some ideas for a new site, which will hopefully go on to be a great source of support for grans and co. around the country, as mumsnet is for many of us Smile
ReshapeWhileDamp · 07/05/2011 21:14

Oh god, there is a Knitting thread! Grin I'm tempted by that alone to send my mum thence, but I just KNOW she'd mooch on over to MN and she would FIND me and it would be very bad.

jugglingjo · 07/05/2011 21:17

I worry about my Mum reading stuff as it is.
Time for a new name ? Grin

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DuelingFanjo · 08/05/2011 11:31

My old mum is a computer wizz. I do think gransnet gives off a very stereotypical image of the elderly. My mum became a mum in the swinging sixties and her mum, who was a 1950's housewife has been dead for years.

Surely this or this or eeven this would represent the grandmother of today better?

TrillianAstra · 08/05/2011 13:10

Just joined to save my user name!

See you in a few decades!

sumum · 08/05/2011 14:21

DuelingFanjo - love the last picGrin

jangly · 08/05/2011 14:50

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usualsuspect · 08/05/2011 15:53

jangly ...why the bitching?

BecauseImWorthIt · 08/05/2011 15:56

jangly - I've just been courteous enough to answer your comments on the other thread.

I really fail to see why you see it so necessary to be so unpleasant.

And you have totally misconstrued my post.

Bumperlicioso · 08/05/2011 16:20

My mum is joining! I hope she bloody stays there though! Wouldn't it be weird if our mums all become friends?!

BecauseImWorthIt · 08/05/2011 16:24

But perhaps it puts paid, jangly, to the notion that Gransnetters are going to be more civilised Grin

jangly · 08/05/2011 17:47

Its not all bad then. Grin

TrillianAstra · 08/05/2011 18:15

Is there any way to do an anonymous recommendation?

"Someone you know thinks you might like Gransnet" - that kind of thing?

Because I think MIL might like it.

But I don't want to indicate to her in any way that I am on MN.

She might think it means I want babies.

(she really really likes babies)

sonearsofar · 08/05/2011 22:50

I'm ancient, but have had a look and I don't think I'll be going back in a hurry...all those messages on how lovely it is that there isn't any swearing for a start.
To me it feels like a way of directing advertising more accuratly to a targeted group (especially as you have to put your postcode in). I can easily ignore all of MN's advertising as none of it applies to me, and the advertisers don't like that, but I'm not going over the the GN ghetto so they can direct adverts of Saga holidays at me.
I love MN, because it's a way of meeting like minded (or otherwise) women without being catagorised by age - such a relief.

mummylin2495 · 08/05/2011 23:07

i agree with you sonearsofar Anyone would think that when you have grandkids you then become a cardigan knitting.stay at home kind of person.That is so far from the truth these days.Most of my friends are nans too and i can assure everyone that we dont think too much differently about things than most of the younger mums.But in saying that i also have younger friends.In the five years i have been on here i have made a few friends and so i am staying on here,and they are all younger,in fact one of them thinks my grandson is dishy !!! I will not be shoved out moved !

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JustineMumsnet · 09/05/2011 09:19

@jugglingjo

Hi Justine

  • I've been over for a quick look at the new gransnet site.
Looks like perhaps you can't give any feedback there without joining, so I thought I'd just share some thoughts here if that's OK.
  • I see you have a link on the home page to "Do's and Don'ts for grandparents"
When I read through this I felt it could perhaps be a bit off-putting to some potential new members of gransnet It is, after all, a site for them. Thought this section seemed a little as though it was written from a parents perspective. I'm sure you get my drift. Just trying to help with some ideas for a new site, which will hopefully go on to be a great source of support for grans and co. around the country, as mumsnet is for many of us Smile

Hi jugglingjo,
That section - Dos and Don'ts - was extracted from the Good Granny Guide - written by Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall who is definitely a gran. (Maybe we should make that a bit clearer). We really wouldn't presume to tell the Grans anything about grandparenting and very much want Gransnet to be By Grandparents for Grandparents as per MN is. We're just doing the platform provision/ tech back endy stuff.

thanks v much for the input though. Do keep thoughts coming and thanks to all Mnetters who have had a look and offered good wishes/ joined in over there. There has already been some very interesting discussion.

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JustineMumsnet · 09/05/2011 09:20

@TrillianAstra

Is there any way to do an anonymous recommendation?

"Someone you know thinks you might like Gransnet" - that kind of thing?

Because I think MIL might like it.

But I don't want to indicate to her in any way that I am on MN.

She might think it means I want babies.

(she really really likes babies)

Yes we can look at that Trillian - thanks for the idea.

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