WDW Social 'Media' and Conspiracy

Originally Posted By sjhym333

Personally I dont get the whole Twitter thing. I signed up for a personal and a business name and after a couple of days I found the whole thing silly. Why would anyone want to know what I am doing all they time? Even I'm not that interested in my life.

 

Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer

>>>EE, thanks for the explanation. So he only jumps directly to the computer as soon as he gets the Twitter alert - I guess I know too little about the twitterverse...<<<

Yep.. Smartphones.

(insert Sprit's comment here)

And no problem!

 

Originally Posted By ChiMike

>chuckle<

 

Originally Posted By lazyboy97o

This is just screaming for inclusion here.
<a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/07/whats-your-pixie-dust-level/" target="_blank">http://disneyparks.disney.go.c...t-level/</a>

Your Pixie Dust Level? Really? That just makes the cartel analogy complete.

 

Originally Posted By Bolna

<<Your Pixie Dust Level? Really? That just makes the cartel analogy complete.>>

WOW!! I nearly fell off my chair.

 

Originally Posted By Bolna

Ah, ok, it is about applications for the Mom's Panel - so people who are supposed to answer questions.

Interesting requirements:

<<but only a handful will have the perfect mix of pixie dust, passion and knowledge>>

Pixie dust and passion are more important than knowledge? If I ask someone a question I first of all expect them to know something about the topic...

This thread has really changed my view of Disney's marketing. I can't read anything from Disney anymore without shaking my head about the nonsense they write...

 

Originally Posted By ChiMike

I wonder if Spirit is ready to upgrade his analogy to include, legally available, medical pixie dust. They way they are so openly pushing it....

 

Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer

Yeeeeah, that's scary stuff!

 

Originally Posted By leobloom

First comment on that post begins:

"Pixie dust level = High!!"


...Sure you are, sister.

And, of course, this is yet further proof that Disney's social media is responding to what we're talking about here. They're appropriating our pixie dust drug references! How dare them -- I'm gonna go copywrite all my comments on WDW toilets before Thomas Smith or one of the Disney Moms can steal my intellectual property!

 

Originally Posted By skinnerbox

I find it socially irresponsible of Disney to help identify those who are afflicted with this terrible addiction without providing information about treatment options or rehab clinics where the pixie dust addicts can turn their lives around.

Maybe advertisements for Uni Orlando on the Disney Parks Blog would be a good first step.

 

Originally Posted By Spirit of 74

<<And you are letting Lou advertise his personal on the OFFICIAL company site and there's nothing fishy with that?>>

<<This has been going on for a long time! And his comment is also always one of the first - either he is never separated from his computer and constantly refreshing the Disney Parks Blog to see if there are new posts - or he might be aware when new posts appear...>>

I don't read the site regularly, so I had no idea.

But I am not surprised.

Lou Mongello, Part of the MAGIC of The Walt Disney Company (excuse me while I go vomit).

Amazing that no one in real media has thought this would be worth a story/report ... I could get a book out of it.

 

Originally Posted By Spirit of 74

<<This is just screaming for inclusion here.
<a href="http://disneyparks.disney.go.c...t-level/" target="_blank">http://disneyparks.disney.go.c...t-level/</a>

Your Pixie Dust Level? Really? That just makes the cartel analogy complete.>>

Ah ... uh ... I'm almost speechless. Amazing.

You do know too much pixie dust can cause insomnia, weight gain, hallucinations, liver failure and erectile dysfunction?

 

Originally Posted By Spirit of 74

>>>EE, thanks for the explanation. So he only jumps directly to the computer as soon as he gets the Twitter alert - I guess I know too little about the twitterverse...<<<

<<Yep.. Smartphones.

(insert Sprit's comment here)

And no problem! >>

His comments would be as follows:

Twitter is the work of Satan or Rick Scott.

It contributes to more misinformation flowing than anything I have ever seen.

It dumbs down communication to brief fragments.

It encourages people to disengage in real communication (like face to face, telephone etc).

It is making today's generation of kids dumber.

I could go on ... all day ... but you know that, right?

 

Originally Posted By Spirit of 74

Ah, ok, it is about applications for the Mom's Panel - so people who are supposed to answer questions.

Interesting requirements:

<<but only a handful will have the perfect mix of pixie dust, passion and knowledge>>

<<Pixie dust and passion are more important than knowledge? If I ask someone a question I first of all expect them to know something about the topic...>>

Yes, but does TWDC of 2011 really want educated guests? Or do they want people who are all about having an unnatural emotional attachment to a company and its products? That's where the Pixie Dust (and mental illness) comes in because I'm as passionate as (almost) anyone about Disney.

But my passion often expresses itself in negative views (and online posts and real world bashing) of things I believe Disney has done to lower the quality of its products and live off the legacy of so many men and women that made the BRAND what it is/was since Walt premiered Steamboat Willie in 1928.

My passion for Disney is for it to be the best, push the creative frontiers while not spitting on the past, surprise and wow me regularly and, oh yeah, stay profitable too.

Rest assured, my type of passion isn't viewed kindly by Disney. They'd rather people like me stop visiting. They want bumpkins high on Pixie Dust.

<<This thread has really changed my view of Disney's marketing. I can't read anything from Disney anymore without shaking my head about the nonsense they write...>>

Scary isn't it? And while some of the 'talking head' bloggers are clueless, many are not. They know exactly what they are doing in spreading BS/propaganda and getting the addicts foaming at the mouth for say ... a new bowling alley.

I know Walt said they had enough land for all the dreams they could imagine, but I have a hard time believing bowling and timeshares (or even FOUR theme parks) was what he had in mind.

 

Originally Posted By Spirit of 74

<<I wonder if Spirit is ready to upgrade his analogy to include, legally available, medical pixie dust. They way they are so openly pushing it....>>

I'm gonna have to find me some when I'm next in SoCal ... I'm having severe Pixie Dust withdrawal.

(and I'm used to the high grade stuff you get in Asia and on the seas ... not the ghetto stuff you get in Central FLA!) ;-)

 

Originally Posted By ReelJustice

Spirit, EE is hooked on social media like a soccer mom on pixie dust. He's already fallen under the spell of Google+.

 

Originally Posted By MousDad

I've had a few questions for thought running around in my head regarding this topic, since the word of P&R being shopped came out in the other thread.

In terms of social media in relation to the potential sale of the P&R division:

- Where does Disney Social Media exist corporately? Is it part of P&R proper or is it in a separate division?

- Were the parks to be sold, would Disney Social Media even need to exist anymore? (For that matter, D23?) Heck, would a new owner even be interested in that kind of message control?

- Were the parks to be sold, would the online Disney world as we know it (user end) cease to exist? Wouldn't all Burbank and Glendale sources immediately either disappear or become irrelevant?

- Would TWDC, having its hands washed of operational involvement, have more time and resources to crack down on IP/content infringement? If the parks, to them, would only exist as sources of licensing revenue, wouldn't they be going after such licensing revenue from third parties (blogs, forums, et al.) that feed off the parks?

- Has the larger Disney social media world and Disney's inability to control the message and tame the wild beast actually contributed to TWDC's desire to shop the parks? Did it contribute to Disney saying "Enough, we aren't going to deal with this any more"?

 

Originally Posted By Bolna

<<My passion for Disney is for it to be the best, push the creative frontiers while not spitting on the past, surprise and wow me regularly and, oh yeah, stay profitable too.

Rest assured, my type of passion isn't viewed kindly by Disney. They'd rather people like me stop visiting. They want bumpkins high on Pixie Dust.>>

Yes, but isn't that what true passion should be like: having a strong foundation to build on.

Not some hollow emotion which just is created by perpetually talking about it. That's just fake, there isn't anything behind it.

Just like the personalities on the Disney Parks Blog.

 

Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer

>>>
His comments would be as follows:

Twitter is the work of Satan or Rick Scott.

It contributes to more misinformation flowing than anything I have ever seen.

It dumbs down communication to brief fragments.

It encourages people to disengage in real communication (like face to face, telephone etc).

It is making today's generation of kids dumber.<<<<

IF... AND ONLY IF.... used in excess or used in the wrong way.

If you LIVE on Twitter and out out every insignificant thought or action or instance on there and it's your only medium of expression, I agree.

But if you use it in a intelligent way, to gauge popular opinion as it happens, to keep a record and travelogue of places you've been, to exchange news, to communicate in a meaningful way, I have to disagree with you.

I use Twitter. Yes. But I don't base my life around it. Of course, THAT would be unhealthy. Same level of mental illness that a person has who obsesses over message boards and posting, or facebook, or ANYTHING that's "too much".

But if you actually have a iota of self control, and think about what you are doing, I can't say that something like Twitter is such a bad thing. It's interesting, to me.

 

Originally Posted By EPCOT Explorer

>>>Spirit, EE is hooked on social media like a soccer mom on pixie dust. He's already fallen under the spell of Google+.<<<

What are you, my mother? LOL.

Yep, using G+, now, too. Not for the usual reasons, though. Using it as a way to publish content, be it pictures or media, and that's about it. A mini blog, really.