Black Friday Sales 2009: How To Use Social Media To Find Deals

mashable.com:

We're a week away from Black Friday and just a few years ago, if you wanted to find the best deals, you had to wait for the sales flyers to hit your newspaper or mailbox. You'd make a list of what you wanted and get your game plan together. But that's all changed because of social media. Tools like iPhone apps, blogs, Twitter, and Facebook will be key in helping competitive shoppers get a leg up against the thousands of shoppers vying for the deals of the century this season.

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Comments

[BlueZoo]

ALL of my Christmas shopping is being done on-line and my mailbox is already filled with so many deals that the idea of physically shopping in a mall makes me hurl! Cyber-Monday is yet to come and I expect even more and bigger deals! Why go to a mall and risk being trampled or held up in the parking lot when I can stay home, enjoy a glass of wine and shop to my hearts content?

[hypnotoad72]

Because staying at home and getting drunk is nowhere near as fun as the social aspect, what with humans being social creatures and all.

Personally, I do agree with you - staying at home, whippin' out the masturcard(tm), and killing my liver with the booze is far more exciting...