Apparently my family is not alone in spending much of their morning time on a laptop: (see 8/9 NY Times article “Breakfast Can Wait. The Day’s First Stop Is Online“).

At Cafe McLaren, typically Mom rises first, makes coffee, and jumps online to check out Facebook. About 30 minutes, later, Dad stumbles downstairs and waits for an opportunity to, well, blog about things like this, check email, and fire up the TweetDeck.

What to make of all this? Well, for one thing, Gen X seems to find itself in the Boomers’ former position with Web 1.0: Web 2.0 has found its legs, and it is acknowledged because segments other than Gen Y have fallen in love with it – particularly Gen X.