KLM has come up with a doozie …. when you select your seat you can do it online with Facebook so that you can check out your fellow passengers and see who you might like to sit next to. What? Are you kidding me? If I am travelling alone the only person I want to speak to is the flight attendant. I don’t want to become BFF with the person sitting next to me – yes that very same person who stole the arm rest and snored all night. I also don’t want to exchange chit chat with someone who has been creeping through my facebook page and laughing at all those really really stupid moments of my tagged life.
But hang on – there is an upside to this too. I guess it would help to know in advance who to avoid on a flight. You could probably tell this by their facebook profile, the films they like, the books they read, the music they listen to, their friends, their political views, their “status”. Actually this gets worse and worse the more you think about it. Do we really want or need all this excess and often stupid information. Facebook started off as a good idea and made Zuckerberg a lot of money but I dunno. It’s starting to give me the creeps.
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