What It Means To WHAM

The first “Moment” I ever had was a simple conversation on the VIP floor section at Firefly Music Festival waiting for the Red Hot Chili Peppers to come on stage. Like most conversations at music festivals, you never really remember how they start, they just kind of flow from whatever current music conditions await your ears.

This is where I met Pam, wide-eyed and musically enthused toting a drink in hand ready to share all her love for the red hots with me. Little did I know our conversation about Anthony Keidis would turn into an awakening to one of the most innovative iphone apps I’ve ever come across.

Pam turned out to be the creator of “We Had A Moment,” or more simply, WHAM, a stylish little app that lets you pin point the location and time of an interaction you had with a particular person or group on a user friendly map.

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I thought her idea was pretty clever and wanted to know more, so she continued to describe her baby and what kind of features and circumstances made the app thrive.

The first step to using WHAM is having the desire and awareness to catalog a certain moment you find entertaining, emotional or valuable. Think about the last time you met someone awesome, thought wow, this person is awesome, but I may never experience this awesomeness again because of several reasons:

1. I’m not feelin’ the vibes right now to ask said person in said moment for their number.
2. I don’t have my phone on me, in fact, neither of us do.
3. I’m at a party and the alcohol content in my body is prohibiting me from remembering any kind of name/number whatsoever.
4. I simply let an organic conversation fly and didn’t even think about gaining contact information during that moment.

Now, you my think, are all these moments related to potential romantic relationships? Why don’t I just go on tinder and swipe through hundreds of potential suitors so I can get laid that way? Well, other then the fact that Tinder is one of thee creepiest dating apps of our generation, We Had A Moment’s premise is to make of it what you want.

What the app has going for it is the amount of potential moments that occur to people everyday are endless. So to are the locations. Were you at a bar recently conversing with a potential business client but never closed or got a name? Maybe that person sitting next to you on the airplane really enjoyed swapping reading lists with you, but you’ll never speak with them again, or will you?

Peep, peek, maybe a pee?

With the foundation of a mutual happening that’s already occurred, it doesn’t seem so weird putting a moment out there and letting it develop to whatever extent the users decide. Privacy may seem like an issue because anyone can view the moments posted, but once you respond to a moment, the conversation becomes strictly private.

I’ve found from my own experience that festivals and concerts are some of the most organic locations for moments to go down. With bad cell phone receptions and people having little time or desire to remember your phone number, much less your full name (spelling for facebook!) WHAM fills the void as an easy pathway to make a simple connection that lasts long after the show.

I’d say if this is your first time hearing about WHAM give it a shot, you can create moments online at wehadamoment.com or do it the convenient way by searching the app store for “We Had A Moment”.

You may just make a moment that changes your life, or maybe you’ll just trade some hip music with an awesome new friend. You’ll never know unless you WHAM!