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Capture your personal sports highlights with Fancred
Recently we have seen a growing number of sports related apps that provide an opportunity to connect with other fans of your favorite teams or to engage in a distribution of photos, gifs, and comments about games and teams more than they provide stats, scores, or background on upcoming games. Fancred is another app along those same lines. It is a free universal app that requires iOS 7.0 or later. The push from the developers for the app is that it is the perfect app to capture your own personal sports moments such as a selfie at the game, or a photo highlight, or anything tied to the event you are attending. That is easy to do and works well. In fact the entire app is easy to navigate and even for someone like me who shuns social media outlets, I figured it out pretty quickly. First you need to set up a profile with the usual information, name, email, and password. Then you select your favorite team or sport. Once that is accomplished you will start receiving a separate feed for each of your favorites. In that feed you will receive comments and gifs from other fans of that team or sport. Some provide new information while others are personal opinions on the team, its players, it performance, or the outcome of a game. I set up four teams and did get some input in the feed that I found useful. You also will get a general news feed that includes the same types of items, gifs, photos, and comments, but covering sports in general. So you may see a posting about the Lakers and Kobe Bryant, or Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, or Maria Sharapova swing changes. Some of these postings are complete articles.. The ones I saw were all features rather than hard news. In both feeds it is easy to share any of the postings with others through Facebook and Twitter. The "cred" part of the app is in a feature called Fancred Score. Each user has their own score ranking from 1, the lowest, to 100. Users increase their Fancred Score each time they post to the app or interact in some way with other users. So if you want to max out, get in there and start sharing. As I indicated earlier, I am not a social media user so Fancred doesn't hold much appeal for me. However, I am positive a lot of you regularly use social media to stay in touch with friends and family every day so this app would work well for you. Now instead of connecting with your friends and family members you can be building a new family of Patriot fans, or Blues fans, or fans of any of the more than 2700 teams included in Fancred. Happy sharing!
