  Kurt Fortmeyer / Blog  "Fans?" What's that mean?  So, yet
another "fan" has contacted me here on ReverbNation and asked me
to "fan" them back, and maybe listen to their music. That seems
more than a little bass-ackwards to me. I would think that I
should listen to somebody's music first. If I like what I hear,
then I become a fan. Correct? Apparently not in
ReverbNationWorld. I suspect that fandom is somewhat akin to
"friendship" on other social networking sites. When I first
signed up here, ReverbNation was not a social networking site.
It was a music site, a place online where a person could load
mp3s to share with other folks through the internet. Once
Facebook became a juggernaut, ReverbNation had to jump on the
cyberbandwagon, asking silly questions (really, who cares what
my favorite color is?), ranking artists by how many of their
silly hoops they are willing to jump through, and setting up a
faux-Facebook sense of faux-community. If somebody "fans" you
and sends you a private message, you cannot eve