Your group should start getting bigger soon. You'll find a lot of people just prior to 45 days. How many different cabins do you have in your group right now? It can be nice to have a smaller, first group, that can make more special gifts for one another that's been in the group longer. And then when the Rush comes closer to sail date the bigger groups with more traditional items can be given
I don't agree with that. I've done FE groups (yes, only on DIS) and they've all been very successful. It mostly depends on the organizer/group wanting to set such things up. It doesn't matter the location where the group is set up.
I only meant to imply that they are presented with a choice. Join FB or don't. I have had people on two cruises whom both (politely for the most part) refused to have a FB account. For me that's ok that they feel that way. Some people use text and email others use the phone and USPS. It's all good, I can relay a message if needed. I like diversity in communication. They can make me feel very current and trendy as well as very laid-back and relaxed.
May I ask when the last one was? I feel like the number of active meet and FE threads here have really dwindled. That's not to say you couldn't still have a successful FE here, the mechanisms are still in place, but I don't know that the audience is here any more.
I think this is such a good compromise, but isn't it technically against the rules? What I remember happening was that the Dis began cracking down on the mention of FB and with that the meet groups soon dwindled.
I was wondering that too. Not being snarky in the slightest, as I'm sure is the case with you b/c you're always a very polite poster.
But I am getting the impression that the only cruises with active meet threads here anymore are the longer repositioning cruises! You hear about the Panama Canal cruise groups getting big, but I seriously do wonder how many others do. There were exactly 4 posts on the meet thread for my June Alaskan cruise - someone wanting to do FE who clearly posted in a different place first, the nice person not even on the cruise who told her where to do that before the thread was moved, me (expressing surprise to find anything for our cruise LOL), and one other person with a countdown post. For my cruise a year and a half ago, we had close to a whole page of posts. I mean, big whoopie, nearly a whole page - but not as pathetic as FOUR posts! The person with the FE request didn't even come back to comment again, so I'm sure she found her way to fb too. And yup, my June cruise had a very active fb group - FE, mixology, kid match-ups - and people are still communicating with each other there, weeks later.
Kinda sorta of yes. My second cruise was only social media. Nobody would hang out here And a few members had been banned here for putting it in the meet and greet thread. I felt a great loss of community back then. It was a bitter time here.
Certainly. The last FE I participated fully in was in 2014. We have only taken 2 DCL cruises since then, and one of them had a pretty active FE group (2016), but I only did pixie-dusting on that one. The last cruise was a short one and I didn't even look to see if there was a FE group on it.
