Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/Using Us

The title of the video that you were asked to view this week is "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/Using Us." Referencing what you have learned about Web 2.0 through the readings in the Courtney text and through watching the video, why do you think that Professor Wesch gave this title to the video?

The video showed how the more we use the different tools of the internet (i.e. Web 2.0) for searching or for connecting with other people, the more we shape it. The internet itself cannot change unless it has a resource/information to use. Every time we use it, we give it more information. It then can use that information to cater to who we are. So, when the title says "The Machine is Us" it is saying that our input on computers/internet is what makes the "machine" hum. "The Machine is Using Us" is saying that without our compliance/cooperation of supplying the information via searches or buzzing up things or "like"ing things, etc., that it (the Machine) wouldn't be able to function.