Furby keeps annoying me

The Furby is a really weird phenomenon. First of all, it uses both real and virtual media. It looks like a furry owl and the commercial makes it seem very cute, but there is a slightly darker side to the furby. It is programed to react to space just like an animal or a human being. It looks alive, acts alive, seems alive, but isn't alive. The Furby is cute but also annoying. Somehow you feel that if you don't love your furby, you're a bad person.

The furby scares me even in it's usual cute state because we are creating a new life form, playing god. This Frankenstein sense of the furby is brought home with the creepy skeleton furby shown here. It is the actual inside of a furby and programed to act like a monster. It is a bit creepy yet somehow I know it won't haunt my dreams. It's kind of an Addams family, Norman Bates, or FrankenFurby. This image has a train wreck fascination. You can't look away even though you're scared.

The furby makes me feel that we are a society both afraid of, and at the same time, ready to embrace technology. And that if it is cute, or fun, or appealing we are more likely to accept it.

Be honest- which scares you more?