It doesn’t matter that I could be talking about ordinary uses of social media to boost the click-through rate on the blog, or the erosion of beach sand during the expected storms Sydney will see later today, or even about the surgery I underwent a few years ago to have my bust size reduced. Apparently every single one of those words will raise a red flag for the Department of Homeland Security’s Media Monitoring team.
Seriously, I’ve been headdesking this one for a few hours now: the DHS monitors blogs, twitter and facebook for usage of the words “social media”?
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THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY IS SEARCHING YOUR FACEBOOK AND TWITTER FOR THESE WORDS
How to up your blog’s hit count on the government dime
Categories: ethics & philosophy, law & order, media, technology
Privacy, Transparency, Surveillance and Sousveillance 
Hoyden About Town 
The hell? That sounds like it has as much point as searching websites for the word “internet.”
Okay, looking at the list provided, I find myself wondering whether there’s a possible online game available here:
Pick one word at random from each category.
For bloggers: Write a blog post which includes each of these words in as neutral and non-threatening a context as possible.
For twitterers: Write a series of tweets, each of which contains one of these words, where each of the tweets is neutral and non-threatening.
I’m sure other people could come up with other forms of online content for various social media – for example, how could the general concept be expanded to cover photos, video, gaming etc?
It seems like the list is trying so hard to be all-encompassing that it’s meaningless. Worm? Swine? Drill? Gas? Wave?