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Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas. Whereas Black Friday is associated with traditional brick-and-mortar stores, "Cyber Monday" symbolizes a busy day for online retailers, and one in which online stores offer low prices and promotions. This has been speculated by some as because Monday is the day the majority of Americans return to their jobs after the Thanksgiving holiday, and order product from their office computers.

While the term "Cyber Monday" was created in November 2005, the mainstream media picked up the term and reported as if "Cyber Monday" had been a long-running concept. "Cyber Monday" is often associated with the unfounded belief that it is the busiest (highest sales volume) shopping day of the year for online retailers, because people would continue shopping while at work from the company's computer. E-commerce sites report that the busiest shopping days usually fall between December 5-15 in a given year. In 2005 — the year the term Cyber Monday was coined — the busiest online shopping day of the year in the U.S. was actually December 12, two weeks after "Cyber Monday." Fark founder Drew Curtis critically mocks the term in his book It's Not News, It's Fark as a leading example of holiday-based "fluff journalism."

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