the ability to look at the Facebook/LinkedIn profiles of your possible seatmates!
Um. No. NO. And someone needs to have a very strongly worded chat about privacy and boundaries with the marketing person that came up with that.
I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Atropa - Mar 20, 2012 5:59:13 pm PDT #27452 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Strix - Mar 20, 2012 6:04:00 pm PDT #27453 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
ITA. What the hell, people? I don't want to know anything about my seatmate on an airplane other than (1) Are you a serial killer? (2) Do you have B.O.? and (3) Are you going to try to talk to me other than a polite "Hello" and "Excuse me." None of which should be accesible info on-line, IMHO.
Someone plopped down to me and was all "Hey, how's the (insert random personal detail here?) I read about on FB/LinkedIn," I am afraid I would ask for another seat or an air marshal.
Vortex - Mar 20, 2012 6:07:36 pm PDT #27454 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I think that you have to opt-in to sharing your facebook profile. Although if I know that someone has shared their profile, I would not sit next to them.
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2012 6:08:56 pm PDT #27455 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think that you have to opt-in to sharing your facebook profile
Well, I don't know how they're going to get them otherwise, so I'd figure so.
Kat - Mar 20, 2012 6:10:16 pm PDT #27456 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I'm not creeped out about the social seating thing on KLM at all. In December, when they announced it, I thought, huh, weird. But you have to opt in and share info and you don't have to do it. I'd use social seating to avoid anyone who USED social seating as means of meeting people. It would be a handy filter.
xpost with Vortex!
That is if I were ever to fly again.
Hil R. - Mar 20, 2012 6:12:12 pm PDT #27457 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I put practically all of my purchases on my credit card, because I get rewards points. But my bank gives me a better interest rate on my savings account if I make five debit card purchases per month, so I've started doing that -- the first five lunch/coffee/whatever cheap stuff purchases of each month go on debit.
sarameg - Mar 20, 2012 6:18:02 pm PDT #27458 of 30001
I GOT TRAVEL APPROVAL. Now to conquer the travel website. Not a small thing.
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2012 6:33:24 pm PDT #27459 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij) has to make an investment t make seat and greet work. So they think there's a PR payoff, since it's free. Somehow it's going to increase customer satisfaction or something related enough to bring in a profit or just make their flyers happy puppies. All I can wonder--was it really cheap? Does management really think a significant portion of their customers like that? Expect that sort of treatment? Enough for an ROI (Return On Investment)?
I dunno where that comes from.
A few days ago I read about an app that looked like a reference to an iPad game that was basically online Pictionary. With a touch of Hangman. Does anyone know what the game is called?
Steph L. - Mar 20, 2012 6:34:40 pm PDT #27460 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
(Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij)
I see what you did there.
Kat - Mar 20, 2012 6:38:02 pm PDT #27461 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I am getting nitpick(ier). I just corrected an NPR post about Suzanne Collins and her father by linking to a NYT article.
I'm an English NERD!