Not My Buddy
Once, when I was at a friend, I suddenly saw a monkey jumping into the screen. It said its name was “Bonzi Buddy” and we both thought it was very funny.
It was telling jokes and doing funny things. I had never seen something like that, but I liked it. When I was back at my appartment, I found the website of the cute little monkey. The website told me “Bonzi Buddy” would make my life much easier because it almost could do anything. It could remember my passwords, help me with sending my emails, and it would make my internet experience much faster. Everything sounded very attractive to me, so I installed the software. In the beginning, everything about the purple gorilla was very amusing. But after a while, when I my new “buddy” started to bore me, I realized my computer was getting very slow and my internet activity was active almost all the time. I searched on the internet (not using Bonzi Buddy) about this issue, and I quickly found this Bonzi Buddy thing actually was spyware, sending me ads and sending back personal information. I uninstalled Bonzi Buddy immediatly and promised myself never to trust any online buddies anymore.
