Social media has taken to the skies.  Check this out:  Planely (make sure you watch the instructional video), a social media site dedicated to connecting passengers on the same flights before they get on their flights, in order to facilitate "car pooling, coffee dates"... and friendship?  Apparently you log on, enter your flight number, and then Planely tells you the other registered users who will be on your same flight. 

The idea being the elimination of surprise upon arriving at your seat and learning you will spend the next two to four hours (maybe more!) seated next to some teenie bopper in a 40-year-old's anorexic body who refuses to turn off her iPhone and then dances (literally) to Kesha, which blares from her portable speakers (as opposed to headphones), during the entire flight.  So yeah, go ahead, meet her first.  Maybe go for coffee before your flight.  That way, when you don't hit it off with her and find yourself wanting to claw her eyes out, you two get to make your way to the gate together, and then spend an at-best "stressful" and at-most "life threatening" flight together.  Thanks Planely, sounds awesome.

I'm not even going mention the "mile high club" potentials here.  Planely better watch out and take a lesson from Craigslist.

Now, I enjoy occasional plane conversation.  I can appreciate the six degrees of separation between everyone in the universe, and, often, I find it fascinating.  More often, however, I prefer to simply put on my headphones, wait for the drink cart and obsess about how I could die at any second.