Planely, the Social Network for Strangers Flying Together. What? [Video]

I’m flying to Vegas tomorrow for CES. I must pack. I’m missing socks. And consistent with Planely , I’m also missing the opportunity to meet strangers on my flight online. Then sit together. And talk. Here’s really weird.

Planely bills itself as the ” social flying revolution” -and sounds about as fun to participate in as the economic Revolution. It’s an internet site, routed through Facebook, in an effort to find strangers who happen to be on an identical flight as you, and put you in contact. So that, what exactly? I’m still probably not sure.

Ten seconds into their promotional video, Planely suggests to us, with a wide-mouthed Right? Riiiight?, that ” We all know the experience of waiting at the gate during boarding, and testing your fellow passengers, wondering who can be sitting next to you.” OK, perhaps I’m with you to this point, Planely, but a higher leap from here it’s not that i am onboard with-because as I look around while boarding, I am overwhelmed with feelings of please let me seated next to none of these people.

Planely encourages you to not only contact these complete strangers ahead of your flight, but to carpool, meet for coffee at the airport, and even split a cab in your hotels, must be you staying at an analogous place. What person in their right mind would find this appealing, I will’t fathom-all that seems guaranteed to me is that this feels like less of a ” social flying revolution” than a ” easy approach to find someone to strangle you in an airplane bathroom revolution.”

In their about section, Planely, which clearly has a sterling business plan drafted, claims ” One day we’ll can help you see if there’s anyone else around you already know through social networks, and every type of different things that we’re watching for you to tell us you must do.” If a type of ” every kind of alternative things” is ensuring that I am seated next to someone who has absolutely no real interest in interacting with me during a stressful flight, then I can check in. Otherwise here’s just kind of creepy and frightening. [ Planely via swissmiss ]

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