The Vandal – Derek Haines

Everyone likes to be liked, and be popular on Twitter. For many Twitter users this popularity is often measured by the ratio of followers to following. Simply put; if you have more people following you than you are following, you are popular. While this is not necessarily true, Twitter does encourage this belief by imposing follow limits that make getting past their 5,000 following limit a little difficult. Because of this limit, many users unfollow a bunch of other users in the hope that more will follow them, thus improving their follow ratio. But this is really counterproductive. By unfollowing someone who is following you, chances are they will unfollow

You have to laugh at life My upbringing was very normal for the nineteen fifties and sixties in Australia. Boys were meant to be tough creatures who showed no signs of pain, suffering, confusion or emotion. One emotion was permitted, however. That was, being happy and contented with life’s lot. The standard was set primarily of course by my father, who was the perfect role model, and by my male relatives, friends and peers. Being tough, hard, unemotional and without fear were the attributes of a real man. I remember stubbing my big toe on a rock when I was about five or six. My toenail was pointing north, and there