2023-07-21 07:12:05
At a festival, in the midst of thousands of people, it is sometimes difficult to find, or even contact, your friends. Here are our infallible tips in pictures.
Who has never lost long minutes (hours?) trying to find their friends at a festival? When the call list gets longer, the messages don’t go out, or your fellow festival-goers can’t stay put… Sometimes, finding loved ones in the middle of a huge crowd, moving or static, is a matter of mission impossible, even turning into a nightmare.
Going to a festival alone, is this finally the solution to avoid any problem? No, there are infallible tips, developed by messaging services like Whatsapp or imagined by festival-goers themselves. Balloons inflated with helium, clothing granted, disguises, rallying point on the festival site, or even geolocation via your telephones… Some compete in imagination to counter poor mobile network coverage often caused by the number of people present on site.
The best tips from festival-goers
A meeting point : first of all, when you arrive at the festival, define a meeting point. “If you get lost, go to such and such a bar/toilet/flag/info point/post”, as you wish. The more precise it is, the better.
Matching outfits : we have seen it, in festivals, to match your clothes (preferably in bright colors), or your bucket hats and other caps, it helps.
A totem : helium balloon, pool noodles, buoy… Opt for an object visible from afar, so higher than a festival-goer’s waist.
Communicate by SMS : network coverage is often saturated with thousands of festival-goers. So prefer sending SMS to Messenger or Whatsapp messages.
Geolocation : the Whatsapp application has set up a system allowing everyone to share their geolocation in real time. Create a special band for your festival band and voila!
Save your phone battery : at the end of the evening, if you have used your phone a lot, the trap is to find yourself without a battery and therefore no way to find your friends. Another trick, the external charger to slip without your bag and use during a short break… with your friends of course!
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