If high school taught me anything, where you sit — and who you sit next to — in the cafeteria is absolutely imperative to your social status and future happiness. And that lesson is now being retaught by a Danish airline — they’ll let you chose your seatmate based on their social media profile.
According to a USA Today report, upon checking in to their flight, KLM Royal Dutch airlines travellers will be able to make their Facebook and LinkedIn accounts public with other people on the flight. They’ll then be able to choose who they sit next to based on common interests. The service will be optional, of course, travellers don’t have to open their profiles to public scrutiny if they choose not to. But I’d imagine there’s a good chance that those passengers would end up clustered around the token, inconsolable crying child. And nobody wants that. [USA Today via PC Mag - Image: Dundamin / Shutterstock]
Graeme
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 3:05 PM*Danish* airline? FFS Andrew, the clue as to the origin of the airline is in the name; and it’s a pretyy big one too!
Cameron
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 3:16 PMNetherlands / Denmark, same thing when you’re American!
cayal
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 3:55 PMMakes me wonder how many Americans ended up in Austria instead of Australia.
olearymo
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 4:47 PMShhh don’t tell them! Let the Austrians deal with that.
chris
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 10:41 PMlmao!
Thorbjørn
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 8:35 PMSorry guys. I’m from Denmark. You Australians are not innocent in this mix-up. So stop mocking the Americans…
When I went to apply for an Australian drivers license, I showed my Danish one, so I wouldn’t have to go through the whole process again. Then the chick asked me: “Where is Denmark?… In the United States?”
And that’s not the only time. When I say I’m from Denmark a lot of times (almost most of the times) I get the “Ohh… So you’re Dutch?”
Scoon
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 10:18 PMTo be fair, the nomenclature is confusing for a start, and secondly, I would like to know how many Danish people could point to East Timor / Malaysia / Indonesia etc on a map, or differentiate them culturally?
Graeme
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 3:39 PMTrue in some cases (as a Scot with a reasonably strong accent I’ve been asked if I’m German, Irish, Dutch and one or two others), but those people are not putting themselves forward as professional writers whose job is to convey accurate information. If you cannot get truly basic facts correct in a situation where the clue is staring you in the face then either – a) double check everything you write or b) give up and find another career that plays to your strengths. What other mistakes are made in Andrew’s articles? What level of trust should readers have in what he writes? Going by this article – not much.
Matthias
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 4:50 PMAnd to make it worse… There’s a town in Western Australia called Denmark.