It’s a funny thing but when people throw stones it really gets to me. I think some people call them ‘trolls’ online? Anyway, I published an article yesterday ranking the top Premier League football teams on Facebook and a rank of the fastest growing team fan pages. It was published for The Wall Blog and contained our own analysis of publicly available data.

Minutes after it was posted, I had this comment

Did you take your inspiration from this blog to create ‘your’ work?!?

http://www.barriesview.com/2011/07/manchester-united-leading-the-way-on-facebook

The short answer I replied was no I hadn’t. The information is available to us all, and the standard table created on that page was from July. As I am not a football fan, I don’t actively seek out such content.

Why does it bother me? Apart from questioning the integrity of ‘my’ work, the guy doesn’t have the balls to publish his real details. ‘Brian D’  doesn’t have the courtesy to leave his full name  nor a valid email address.

I am happy to discuss the merits of my work but I don’t like people throwing stones and running away. It bugs me.

Rant Over.