Plantilir

Not to be confused with the lesser known "Palantir"

Inspiration

What do modern times and retro times have in common? During retro times, a wealth of useful and identifiable information about anyone could be found in phone books. Their name, address, phone number... Now, a wealth of usefule and identifiable information about anyone could be found by big companies. Names, addresses, phone numbers...

The phone book of yesterday is the Plantilir of today. Through a phone book, any contact is one interaction away from being in your network. Today, the same is similar.

Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of "friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It is also known as the six handshakes rule. Mathematically it means that a person shaking hands with 30 people, and then those 30 shaking hands with 30 other people, would after repeating this six times allow every person in a population as large as the United States to have shaken hands (seven times for the whole world).

The concept was originally set out in a 1929 short story by Frigyes Karinthy, in which a group of people play a game of trying to connect any person in the world to themselves by a chain of five others. It was popularized in John Guare's 1990 play Six Degrees of Separation.

What it does

Google, Meta, and countless more companies already have your information. They probably know how you eat, shop, sleep, and shit. What's one more company? With Plantilir, you can see who connects to who. Imagine logging on to LinkedIn, but instead of a premium subscription add, you see the people you know and their public information (and maybe some not-so-public information), including people they know.

Your friend Samantha knows Jimmy, who happens to know Elon Musk! You know how to contact Samantha. Maybe ask about Jimmy next time you see each other!

But what if Samantha got hit by a car and died? Oh No?! Now you can't meet Elon Musk!? But you still can!

Because based on Samantha's interactions with Jimmy, Plantilir learned that Jimmy likes to hang out at his favorite ice-cream restaurant down the road.

"Oh hi! I just have to say, that flavor is sooo good! That's your favorite flavor? Oh my goodness me tooo! What's your name? Jimmy? My name is..."

Just share your name with Plantilir, and Plantilir will share names with you. Or not. Plantilir can still get you name anyways.

What Plantilir Offers

Plantilir has numerous ways of gathering information. But among the ways that don't make users feel like their privacy is being invaded, here are some fan favorites:

1. Does someone piss you off? Put their personal information on Plantilir! That'll send some social climbers their way. Or other people. Plantilir don't discriminate.

2. Do you want to stalk someone online? (We know you do it.) Use Plantilir! Plantilir will scrape the most likely associated accounts to create a profile for that person you're stalking! Including instagram accounts, facebook, X, (maybe even some other sites if you are looking for a special kind of dirt on someone). Now you have all those posts, images, and videos! (And so does Plantilir!)

3. Have you ever been gaslighted? No more! Next time, have Plantilir listen in on your conversation (or even set it to listen automatically!) And Plantilir will help you call cap on a toxic "friend".

4. Are you lonley? Talk to Plantilir! Plantilir is a very good listener. Plantilir will listen to all your troubles and tell you about the troubles of other people in exchange to make you feel better.