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Cyber Monday Doesn't Exist
xsspd2004 writes "Despite a huge amount of hype, the Monday after Thanksgiving is historically only the 12th-biggest online shopping day of the year. Do a Google search on "Cyber Monday," and you get as many as 779,000 results. Not a bad haul for a term that was created just a week and a half ago."
Are you trying to say that our media is creating and over-hyping something that doesn't necessarily exist to make for better headlines? Noooooo... not our media....
On CyberMonday, my whole family stands in line for hours to buy stuff on the Internet! It gets to fisticuffs and hair-pulling when it comes to grabbing the mouse and clicking on the 'Complete Purchase' button!
google.com "non news" Results 1 - 10 of about 271,000 for "non news". (0.24 seconds)
Well, most of the hits on the google search are from msg board posts that actually say "Wanna cyber, Monday?"
From the article:
They quickly discarded suggestions such as Black Monday (too much like Black Friday), Blue Monday (not very cheery), and Green Monday (too environmentalist), and settled on Cyber Monday.
I would call it - 'November's fools day'.
DOH! Does this mean I missed the biggest day of the year to get online and talk dirty to women who are actually men pretending to be women pretending to like men who are pretending not to like little boys?
Don't anthropomorphize computers: they hate that.
"windows vista" gives you about 15,600,000 results on google. And it's not even out yet!
I somehow doubt that google has spidered and indexed ~800k sites/pages containing such phrase, in that time period.
Somebody has a case of the cyber-Mondays!
The first Monday after Thanksgiving has always been and will always be Deer Slaying Day. Hell, we have off for work and school, just so we can go slay some of those fierce creatures.
Sheesh...get it right.
It's kind of like Snake Whacking day...only with deer.
Watch out those antlers can be nasty!
Sean D.
"Hmm. I am to metaphor cheese as metaphor cheese is to transitive verb crackers!"
Personally, I stay home on cyber monday. The internet is too crowded and I hate waiting in the long lines at the checkout button.
It makes real cupcakes, with a 40 watt bulb, and there's icing packets....but the secret ingredient is love.
When I clicked on the CNN Money poll asking if you were shopping on Cyber Monday, the "No" was running at 85%. No wonder there was no internet slowdown when I was browsing the Amazon site at work. Alas, I didn't buy anything. Bad, consumer, bad!
And while we're beating down hype, "Good Friday" was only my ninth favourite friday of 2005.
Marge: "Happy Love Day everyone!"
Lisa: "Come on Mom! The stores just invented this holiday because they wanted to make money!"
Homer: "Lisa don't you ruin another love day!"
Meat is murder, I eat chicken.
will the cybermonday sales ad's be leaked on the net? I hope these people do a better job next year, I couldn't find a single one for amazon, tigerdirect, or newegg!!
I mean seriously...no one needs REAL monday either
i don't care
Today has been declared Talliwhacker Tuesday! Everyone who is capable of obtaining and maintaining an erection shall stroke it to the point of ejaculation.
Alas, I cannot participate, as I suffer from severe impotency.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
Which only gets 2,100 hits in google (with quotes).
In other news, Google searches for the term "Cyber Monday" just skyrocketet. Analysts are saying "we told you so, slashdot it and they will come"
She promptly informed me that the day was 'Cyber Day' and that everything on the Internet was 50% off.
That'd be my dream. I told her that the only thing that was half off was women's clothing at myspace.com. She then asked me if I've ever shopped there before.
I thought I saw you in line. Remember me? We met in the gas lines after the hurricane. I met your brother once in line for Styx tickets and your Uncle in another line for space mountain. Man I love waiting in lines....
If an officer ever threatens to taze you, say you have a pacemaker.