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Newbie Here Need Help with Garmin Connect and Garmin Mobile app

Former Member over 9 years ago

Hey guys! Just joined the Garmin Community. I was using a Fitbit for the longest time, but it kept breaking on me so I decided to switch it up to a Vivosmart HR. I love it so far! It seem accurate, and I love the notifications, but enough with that. I wanted to see how I could join more communities like I had on Fitbit. It was so simple to search for a community or to find friends. On Garmin it seems pretty tough.

Is there a way to connect my facebook account to find friends? Or is there an area where I can just look through a list of groups? Or do I have to manually search for them? Also what the heck is segments?

Thanks so much for the helps guys. Hopefully I posted this in the right area. Brand new to forums also.
Thanks!:p;):D

0 jim_m_58 over 9 years ago

With Garmin, "friends" are called "connections". You can do a search to find people.

There are also "groups", where you can find a group that matches your location/goals/etc.

And then there are "challenges", where each week you are put in a group of about 10 people, who have a similar history as far as steps (the "60k Step Challenge" for example). You move to more difficult changes based on who you did with the current one.

If you add widgets for these things on your webpage, you can find new "connections" from your group or current challenge. (I'm sure you can do the same with the mobile app, but I've never tried that). You will have leader boards for each of these things

In some of the device forums, there is often a thread of people looking for connections with the same device as you have.

One thing to do, is to make sure your privacy is open not only for you, but for "connections and groups", so others can see you on their leaderboards.