New social network Fans.com targets live music enthusiasts

New York

YOU post family updates on Facebook, news on Twitter, selfies on Instagram and career changes on LinkedIn. Do you really need another social network?

Peter Shapiro, the man behind Brooklyn Bowl and last year's Grateful Dead reunion, thinks you do - one that shows all the ways you are a fan.

Mr Shapiro, 43, one of the most successful and least button-down independent music promoters in the US, is introducing his latest venture this week, an online platform called Fans.com that lets users build profiles based on concerts they have attended and communicate with like-minded people via news feeds.

If the format sounds familiar, it's no accident. But Mr Shapiro's bet with Fans.com is that other social networks are ill-suited as platforms to exp…