Do you think your mother would have appreciated GN

My mum would have hated it. She was very suspicious of technology and would not have had a computer in the house.

Merlot are we sisters?

My mother would have been a nightmare. Margot Leadbetter? On Gransnet?

She'd have probably got herself banned.

Annie I agree with your Mother, family business stays in the family.

No my mother was very shy and private so was my mil you had to not discuss anything unsavoury or to do with feelings if family! We discuss most things openly in our house but I'm a private person like her really? So....

No! She was far too busy to sit down for more than five minutes. Even in her old age she kept busy and was always out and about. I don’t think she would have understood it at all and I frequently feel guilty about the time I waste doing nothing. If she’s watching me she will be appalled.

Mine would have enjoyed reading this as she was nosey, but she would not have attempted to join in as she would have been suspicious of where the info. was going. Probably just as well as her answer to any of the problems on here would be 'you've just got to get on with things'.

No, definitely not. She would have been very suspicious of people talking to total strangers about their problems.

I think my mother would have loved being on here, she liked nothing better than a good discussion and was known for her soirees. She was Hyacinth Bucket.

A year or so ago I thought of reading a couple of GN threads to my Mum and I think she would have enjoyed them. But now her hearing and lack of concentration make it too difficult to keep up a conversation. Sometimes I might throw in a comment I have read on GN.

She has a mathematical mind and took to the computer well. However, it was just being phased in as she retired so she never really got to use it much, except at home for accounts and letters and logging the meter readings.

She was given a new computer for her 90th birthday and sent e-mails and looked at photos which we had scanned in and, of course, played the odd game of solitaire, but she doesn't really use it any more now. Shame, because the children (my 3 DS) would love to write and send her photos.

She may have enjoyed GN but would have looked at the recipes, health news, book reviews and household information more than the chatty threads I think.

My lovely mum wasn’t ‘teckie’ in any way but she loved chatting to people - a real people person my mum! Very popular and kind. I think she’d have liked the concept of GN though.

MissA ??
Honestly I don’t know how you think them up ??

My mum didn’t “do” outside the family . She worked for over 30 years with the same group of ladies and never once socialised with them (they gave up asking). She was a very private person, hated bad language and would not have approved of discussing anything remotely risky.

To be honest she only had one opinion on everything and that was my dads .

In other words no she would not have liked GN.

Mum was a complete technophobe, she even struggled with setting her heating.
Disregarding that, she had no friends and didn't like "people knowing her business"

MissAdventure I've said it before but I'll say it again, I do LOVE your posts!!

When I'm reading the comments, I often hear a little wind, a tiny cyclone - it's Mum turning in her grave

Not only would my mother have had a fit at the very idea of my putting any of "our private business" here, she'd have forbidden me to even join!

triplets chewbacca and phoenix

Are we sisters Phoenix?

My mother would never have considered anything like GN. Beneath her!
My Nan, on the other hand, 92, would love it. I live on the other side of the world, so have no say in this, but family at home have never "allowed" her online. They think it will be like it is with her smart TV, mobile phone, bills etc, always ringing up and demanding help at the drop of the hat. So no computer for Nan.
I think it's a shame, she's still incredibly sharp and active, very social in her residential complex, life of the party. She's politically aware, quick witted, loves a gossip (she'd deny that!) Whenever I'm on here (I'm a youngish grandma) I think Nan would love this

My mother was an intolerant, bad tempered snob during her later years, and made something between a hobby and a mission of disliking and disapproving of almost everything, including me.

Well I was going to say No,
but then I remembered Pedants' Corner

Would NOT share !

Very definitely no. Did not interact with people outside the family, barely interacted with family to be honest.
Would share personal details and looked down on anyone who did so. Washing dirty linen in public was most definitely not done !

My mother would have grasped how technology worked immediately, probably more quickly than I did. She was very bright at things like that. She would probably have glanced at sites like this, been horrified at the way some people think, then dismissed it and gone back to reading The Guardian.

My father was still alive, in his 90s, when I first got online. I don’t think he understood what I was talking about, but he listened patiently and found it vaguely interesting, I think. He was the more sociable one of my parents.

Not another knicker ironer MissAdventure

My Mum would have loved it, she embraced technology and loved company so what is not to like. However, her last few years were difficult and even the tv remote became beyond her capabilities. Mum would have been the first to suggest a meet up and a chat face to face with anyone she got to know on GN.