KLM lets you choose who sits next to you
After spying on passengers using Twitter and Foursquare to offer them gifts last holiday season, KLM is planning to let people choose the passengers next to them on flights using social media. They call it ‘social seating’.
The idea is to check Facebook or LinkedIn when you check in to pick where you want to sit according to people’s profiles. KLM believes that would be a good call for business flights and making contacts.
As far as ordinary flights are concerned, I’d be more inclined to eliminate who I wouldn’t want beside me, including any type of person who takes up too much space or makes too much noise, be it tall, big, with small children or a loud mp3 player. Of course, nobody would have to allow this kind of linking to social media, as it could also be used for evil.
What if some strange man who accosts single women during flights sits next to me? He picked me, but I surely didn’t pick him. Or a thief. Just saying.
Great idea for business, but I can foresee a lot of issues for anyone who is tall, big and has small children.
(Link: www.spitsnieuws.nl, Photo of a Lufthansa plane at Schiphol)
Another gimmick whose real intent is to get our personal information for future marketing. But I guess there are stupid people who will love it and fall for this BS. Caveat Emptor, I say.
It will also be a good call for stalkers and sweaty single guys who want to sit next to the one hot chick on the flight.