judging by # of reality shows, I'm thinking there are many folks who'd say fans.

friends - me thinks

I'll take that to mean you'd like an equal number of both! This sounds like a not goo long story otherwise

fans I think...

frenz (from "The Frenz Experiment" by the Fall: "My friends don't add up to one hand/...One hand!")

friends. but I don't want alot. just a few really good ones.

just a few close friends is all i need

I'd say fans. Although fans tend to bug you from time to time they don't want to constantly borrow stuff like friends do.