FFW- Is the machine using us? 9/28/11

Wow. I feel like that was an epic evolutionary idea that I just experienced but haven't processed fully. Wesch said the machine is us, so asking if the machine is using us is interesting. I don't know what to think, or how to process that really. Robotics? Intelligent life? or what is it? how to process & understand the word/use of machine...the web? other people taking advantage of us, our blogss, our online lives- our lives in general?? to put it simply, I have this odd paranoia that says yes, the machine is using us...but another part of me doesn't care...