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Here is a suggestion for a new way to use the word “laptop”: when two or more people are “hanging out” and using their laptops. Bonus points when they IM with each other and they’re sitting within feet of each other.

Call it “sick,” but I’m sure there were plenty of people who thought using the phone was lame instead of writing a letter or walking down the street. And now the phone is the thing of Mother’s Day Hallmark commercials.