Sports social networking is not much different from the regular social networking. As the name suggests, a sports social networking site offers several fun ways for sports fans to interact with each other and talk about the latest and hottest news about games and sportspersons. A sports social networking site may and may not offer fantasy sports.
Sports social networking is all about getting together with other sports enthusiasts. It is the type of social networking that brings fans of a sport or sportsperson together from all over the world. On most sports social networking sites, sports buffs can initiate and/or take interesting polls, take part in discussions, play fantasy games, etc.
One of the increasingly popular sports social networking sites is FanIQ. On FanIQ, sports fans from all over the world get together and play games & talk trash. Sports enthusiasts also get live scores and broadcast their take on latest and hottest sports news and gossips.
FanIQ has over 12 million registered sports fans. FanIQ is actually the worlds first online sports bar and one of the worlds most interactive sports sites.
FanIQ has received some great reviews by some of the most reputable technology blogs. TechCrunch, a technology blog that was founded in 2005 by one of Time Magazine's world's 100 most influential people, Michael Arrington, calls FanIQ a sports website that is more focused on entertaining its users than bogging them down with statistic and opinion articles that can be found on just any other sports website. It should be noted that it was in 2006 when FanIQ started its operations with the mission to become the most interactive sports website. Today in 2011, it is close to becoming what it aims to become.
Another reputable technology blog that has given a thumbs up to FanIQ is About.com Web Trends. About.com Web Trends is a popular section of the New York Times Company-owned online source for original information and discusses all the latest and hottest in the world of internet. About.com Web Trends, in its review of FanIQ, calls FanIQ a website by sports nuts for sports nuts. One of the pros that the technology blog mentions about FanIQ is [FanIQ is] Social networking aimed at sports nuts.
It will not be incorrect to say that it was primarily the concept of sports social networking that caught the attention of such prominent angel investors as Facebook board member and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, Tribe Network founder and Aggregate Knowledge CEO and co-founder Paul Martino, Yelp board member and Slide executive Keith Rabois and StubHub co-founder Jeff Fluhr, and compelled them to invest in FanIQ. The power of sports social networking can also be witnessed from the fact that FanIQ also got investments from VantagePoint Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm with over $4.5 billion of committed capital.
Social networking among sports fans is just as important as networking among family and friends because all sports enthusiasts connect on many levels, and their gathering, particularly on social networking sites is bound to be full of fun as well as informative.
