mom+3girls
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Feb 25, 2005
If this isn’t the right place to ask this, then I apologize.
I first read about FE on here ages ago and now that I’m finally going on a Disney cruise I wanted to join a group and participate. There wasn’t yet a group for my sailing so I decided to start one. I googled around and found an FE group on Facebook. I joined and was told in order to form a group for my sailing I would have to talk with the owner/admin if the page, get approved etc. It was kind of an ordeal? But whatever. The group was established and we went about our merry way.
But something that my group and I have noticed (we have discussed this at great length) is how controlling this particular Admin/Page Owner is. The FE Page is huge and has a lot of members. At first I liked it because it was awesome to see so many people posting their gifts; it was a great page to look at to get ideas. But every other post is shut down by this particular Admin. She limits what people can talk about. She has tried to interfere with our group and how it is run. She seems to be a “rule follower”, which is fine, but I’m not so okay with it if I feel like it is interfering with my own group.
I became friends with another person who is in another cruise date group and she said that some time ago, this Admin was in her group because she was sailing with them. She said it was horrible having them in the group because they were controlling everything, deleting posts that even mentioned “alcohol” etc. Yikes.
What my group and I were wondering: can we ask to be unlinked from this page? Is this Admin in charge of FE? Did she invent the concept? Do we have to abide by all of her rules? We all agree that we just don’t want to deal with her anymore but we aren’t sure if we have to go through her in order to participate.
Thanks!
Back a few years ago I started a FB page for an upcoming cruise. I had this one lady ask to join our group and immediately sent me a private message asking to make her an admin, I didn't. She almost drove me crazy, sending me private message telling me this person said this this person said that, one time I had someone ask to join and I approved them ended up they were a company from the Bahamas wanting to advertise their business for our cruise. I was busy uhhhh because I work, she was sending me messages in all caps that this person was a troll etc not one message but several. I finally was able to pick up my phone and look and I deleted the person from the FB group. She then started calling me on FB messenger, and when I didn't answer she would send a message complaining about how I was or wasn't running the group, she didn't like the way I had set the group up it was a private group not a secret group. I didn't run the group I let people do and say what they wanted, If someone had made threats or was being vulgar I would not have allowed that, I approved people for the group and deleted people from the group, apparently not fast enough for her. She just about pushed me over the edge. I finally had to send her a message and tell her that she needed to stop harassing me or I was going to report her to FB. People can be awful to deal with. All I got to say is God bless their families.