# Stop Using "Cyber" in the Names of Online Promotions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-cyber-in-the-names-of-online-promotions/519514 "2009-11-30T20:41:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-cyber-in-the-names-of-online-promotions/519514/1 "2009-11-30T20:41:15Z")
Unless you are offering me _text-based sexual services_, just stop it. Stop. Right now. Not one more fucking ad. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-cyber-in-the-names-of-online-promotions/519514/2 "2009-11-30T20:42:29Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Unless you are offering me _text-based sexual services_, just stop it. Stop. Right now. Not one more fucking ad. But you say in your post that you WANT fucking ads. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-cyber-in-the-names-of-online-promotions/519514/3 "2009-11-30T20:49:14Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > But you say in your post that you WANT fucking ads. If you think that counts as fucking, you and I clearly have very different definitions. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-cyber-in-the-names-of-online-promotions/519514/4 "2009-11-30T21:27:18Z")
Somebody’s cyber-grumpy. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-cyber-in-the-names-of-online-promotions/519514/5 "2009-11-30T22:03:47Z")
Yeah, where’d this ‘Cyber Monday’ thing come from, anyways? I never heard of it before this year. And while we’re at it, stop importing ‘Black Friday’. It wa all over the place, and there were even [news articles explaining it](http://www.thestar.com/business/article/730918--local-stores-give-u-s-black-friday-shopping-a-try). People: Thanksgiving was in October. Last Friday was just a normal workday for us. Deal with it. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-cyber-in-the-names-of-online-promotions/519514/6 "2009-11-30T22:42:54Z")
People still do that?! It was already old hat in '95. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-cyber-in-the-names-of-online-promotions/519514/7 "2009-11-30T23:54:17Z")
I don’t want to see news headlines about “cyber attacks” unless they involve actual cyborgs. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-cyber-in-the-names-of-online-promotions/519514/8 "2009-12-01T02:34:50Z")
If it involves the Information Superhighway, then it ought to incorporate “Cyber-”. It’s only right and proper. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-cyber-in-the-names-of-online-promotions/519514/9 "2009-12-01T16:04:08Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > If it involves the Information Superhighway, then it ought to incorporate “Cyber-”. It’s only right and proper. If only you’d managed to work the word “netiquette” in there, you’d have won the thread. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-cyber-in-the-names-of-online-promotions/519514/10 "2009-12-01T16:10:02Z")
Nice eRant (or is it iRant?) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-using-cyber-in-the-names-of-online-promotions/519514/11 "2009-12-02T00:55:45Z")
But then how will people know they’re getting Web 2.0?