Is it possible that Social Media can go too far? You decide on this one.
As for me, I'm waiting for the FBI to shut this one down.
Why? Because neither the airport, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) nor will the FBI ever tell you WHO is on an airplane. Ever.
Planely takes the very idea personal privacy and common sense and tosses it out the window: If the Airlines won't give me the name of who is on a plane and if the FBI won't give me the name of who is on my plane, how is Planely getting this information?
Easy. Stupid people will simply register their flight and name on Planely's social media network all in the FUN you'll get by seeing who might be sitting next to you.
Which will be a great new tool for terrorists now to use, as anyone can register with a fake name, and say they're on a specific plane. This way they can see who is sitting next to them. A great way to see if a Congressman is on a specific flight, a bank president, Eric Schmidt (the soon to be EX CEO of Google)... you get the idea.
Turn the clock back to 9/11.
A friend was traveling to New York and was the same flight to NY that resulted in tragedy for the first American Airlines passengers. When I watched the news unfold about the towers being hit by two airplanes on CNN, I started calling the airlines. Nobody would release me the name of ANY passenger on any of their flights.
They never do. They would let me know (after) the tragedy, but that information gets filters by the FBI first.
Seven hours later, I learned my friend was on the same trip, but was on the flight BEHIND the one that slammed into the tower.
Thanks to Planely, you can now circumvent the airlines privacy policies by telling the entire world, that you are on American Airlines Flight 123 to Las Vegas. And the whole world might be interested, or nobody might care.
Just because you CAN circumvent the privacy policy of airlines doesn't mean it's a good (or safe) thing to do.
The problem with this form of Social Media is we can do without it. Because if you didn't like the Privacy exploitation of Facebook, then boy oh boy are you gonna hate Planely.
I give this company maybe another 60 days of life, but I'm putting this company on my DEATHWATCH list and hope the FBI shuts this one down sooner rather than later.
What's your opinion?
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