Weird Wide Web

Twitter, McAfee, and Facebook; it has been an interesting few days. But, we’re pushing through.

Our latest victory is with McAfee. If you have McAfee WebAdvisor (formerly SiteAdvisor) extension installed on your browser, you may have seen a warning screen appear when trying to visit us. Well, it appears that the Disney Experience was incorrectly labeled as a malicious forum/bulletin board website. Insane, right? Well, we submitted a correction, and even tried to have the website listed under “For Kids” (because we’re family-friendly), “Blogs/Wiki” (because we have a blog, not a forum or bulletin board), and “Recreation/Hobbies.” Okay, that last one was a little bit of a stretch, but a lot of people build paper models as a hobby.

Our case was quickly reviewed and corrected within a couple of hours. We’re no longer listed as malicious, but we’re still presumed to be a forum/bulletin board website. People having conversations in the comments of our blog posts does not translate to a forum/bulletin board. Sigh. We’ll live with it for now; at least the warning screens are gone.

On the Twitter front of the war, we cannot post anything that contains a link to our website. Twitter thinks they are all automated. That’s partially correct. When we publish a new post, the system automatically connects and posts the link to Twitter. That’s its function. But, we also post manually.

Right now, we can use a URL shortener service to bypass Twitter’s odd behavior, but you’ll get a warning screen before being taken to the post.

We’ve also submitted our Twitter account for verification. This verification service, which used to be only for celebrities and high-profile users, is now open to the public.

In other news, we’ve been on Facebook for about a week, expanding our social media presence. Be sure to stop by our page and leave a comment . . . if you can break yourself from Pokemon Go long enough. We kid.