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Tech Support: Hello … how can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to install Love. Can you guide me through the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now. Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running ?

Customer: Let’s see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge and Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed.
Can you turn those off ?

Customer: I don’t know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and
Resentment have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, “Error - Program not run on external components.” What should I do?

Tech Support: Don’t worry. It means that the Love program is set up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In
non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the “My Heart” directory. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files. Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed and running. One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.

Customer: Thank you, God.

In my blog stats today, this incredible search on Google: "am i engaged". LOL. The funny thing: it takes reader to an old post with the title: "When there's the renown" :D
 (of course not concerned with the search at all)

The curious thing: the choice of time.

"Hi Giuseppe,
 
[he is not me, but a 62 years old person on Facebook, whose account that has been definitively disabled. I can trust he is a good person, and I know he's not using the Facebook tools for personal use but for a public purpose. He's founder of the "The medicines of soul" initiative and writer of several books on the ageing problems. . And this is the mail he received from the Fb team]
 
Facebook has limits in place to prevent behavior that other users may find annoying or abusive. These limits restrict the rate at which you can use certain features on the site. Unfortunately, we cannot provide you with the specific rates that have been deemed abusive.
Your account has been disabled because you exceeded Facebook's limits on multiple occasions when sending friend requests, despite having been warned to slow down. After further review of your account, we have determined that you violated our Terms of Use by misusing our site features to harass other users. We will not be able to reactivate your account for any reason. This decision is final.
Thanks for your understanding".

This mail (and reason) is simply dreadful.

Addendum

The "original sin", as explained by the Facebook team, should be that there're been a lot of friendship requests sent to persons belonging to the groups created by Giuseppe. The problem is that this behaviour, that Facebook considers not accorded to their rules, has not discontinued despite the "advices" sent (in english language, by the way, to an italian person). And it has created the situation described, where the whole account of Giuseppe has been completely and "definitively" canceled.   

Difficult to invent it. Difficult to sell it as business to companies in Italy. Just consideration on my trobules too..

* mumbling around this post, in italian: http://www.piccoloimprenditore.com/blog/2009/5/19/lo-strano-caso-del-web-20.html

PS. Thanks Judith! :-)

                     

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