Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Social Seating

Interesting.

Using a new feature called “Meet & Seat,” KLM allows passengers to browse the Facebook profiles of other passengers in hopes of making each flight a bit more intimate. The romantic angle of the new option isn’t explicitly stated — and you could just as easily pick a potential seat neighbor based on their favorite TV show or other interest — but singles could definitely take advantage by turning a plane ride into a bite-sized date.

Of course, if you have no interest in who you’ll be sitting next to and prefer to drift into a fog of in-flight cocktails and iPad entertainment, you can opt out of the program entirely. Of course, doing so may cause you to be matched up less socially adept seatmates, so choose wisely.

I’m one of those who would prefer to bury my nose in a book or sleep than engage in airplane chatter, but that’s just me…

(4) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1601 hrs
Culture + Technology

  1. I know, I know, I’m being pedantic, but did some one who actually gets paid to write for a living actually string back to back sentences together that begin with “Of course,” ?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 20, 2011 at 1832 hrs


  2. Of course…

    Posted by Owen on December 20, 2011 at 1856 hrs


  3. See, I’m kind of hoping they’ll have “I just want to take a nap/read my book/listen to music/etc” as an option; then, all the people who want to do any of the above activities during the flight can all sit together and do whatever it is they want to do. For the record, I’m generally a listen to music/read my book/get some sleep kind of flyer.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 21, 2011 at 0052 hrs


  4. I know, I know, I’m being pedantic, but did some one who actually gets paid to write for a living actually string back to back sentences together that begin with “Of course,” ?

    Posted by 3rbe on December 23, 2011 at 0232 hrs


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