At the bottom of your screen, fans are the people who follow your updates and friends are ppl you've established a link with.

Either you asked them to be a friend and they accepted or vice-versa.

I don't really get it either John

So you can follow someone and they can follow you but you're not friends until you ask? confused!

that's the way it seems to work elemtech! The adv. of being friends rather than just fans is that you can send private plurks.