Please do point out where I said that. It's not necessary to put words in my mouth in defense of DIS! But that kind of comment is one of the things that turns people off of DIS. People here are frequently beaten up for their opinion. Heaven forbid you don't drink the Kool Aid and worse, heaven help those who actually LIKE Carnival and admit it here!! Personally I think it's funny that people who have never cruised on another line have all kinds of opinions of other lines because of what they've "heard" or "read". Or people who have never been on FB are jumping all over it without understanding the benefits. I also don't like that DIS seems to think they have the monopoly on
Disney cruise info...to the point of not allowing any mention of FB (or CC?). Ridiculous! There are other sites with great information - wouldn't they want their cruisers to have access to that?
Sorry, that was not directed at you, but rather at the thread in general. My point was that there is over 20+ pages of posts between 2 threads complaining about FB and stating that they are there because no one comes here anymore. I just thought it ironic. Sort of like that old Yogi Berra line about restaurants "No one goes there anymore... It's too crowded".
I actually like that you are able to post your opinion here. The great thing is that we all have them and they are all correct! Different strokes for different folks, right? The point of all of the threads (that I have read, anyway) is that people are complaining about being shut down on FB. I was pointing out that that doesn't seem to happen here on the DIS. I think that the mods here do a great job.
BTW, I really like Carnival. In fact, our Carnival cruise was MUCH better than our RCCL cruise (and we have done multiple Princess cruises, and I liked those better than either Carnival or RCCL). I personally think that the RCCL people come across Kool-Aid drinkers based on our experience with RCCL, HOWEVER, I freely admit that our experience may have been a one-off experience due to the ship (Serenade) and the fact that 1/3 of the crew quit just before cruise embarkation. I think our experience may have been VERY different on one of the newer, bigger ships.
To your last point, I think FB is great... for those that choose to do FB. I am all for people that want to do FB, really I am. I have zero problem with that. However, there are a lot of people not on FB for a variety of reasons. You say people may not understand the benefits, but they may understand the drawbacks and choose not to use that platform. CC is a wealth of information, especially for lines other than
DCL. I find that there is more discussion on DCL here, but do visit both.
I very much disagree with your assessment that the DIS has a "monopoly" on Disney Cruise Info and that they don't allow mention of FB. I mean, if they didn't, why would there be 20+ pages of discussion about it? The point that I was trying to get across is the opposite. That FB DOES NOT have a monopoly on FE groups. Groups exist on both. In fact, I have been on cruises where the two coordinated between the two sites. It can happen...
I think your July cruise is the Member's Cruise? I would expect that thread to be more active although I did mention to you that our Member's Cruise last year had a very active FB page for FE and candy exchanges. Actually all three of our last Disney cruises had great FB pages - lots of info shared, exchanges set up, excursions shared, friendships made. I don't see anything wrong with that!
They may have. AND... there is nothing wrong with that. That is my point. We had 20+ participants in the Southern Caribbean last summer, and we had more than that for our 2015
DVC Alaska Member Cruise. In fact, I suspect that a number of people participate in both FB and DIS exchanges, and again, I don't see where that is a problem. If people want to FB, let them FB. If people want to DIS, let them DIS. If people want to do both, let them do both... It's a free country...