When Serena van der Woodsen asked on-again-off-again beau Dan Humphrey how he found her at The Oak Room on the season finale of “Gossip Girl,” he replied that he Loopt her.
Now, we’re savvy enough to know that his choice of verb wasn’t part of GG’s growing database of original vocabulary, but we’ll admit that we’d never heard of Loopt before. So, like millions of other fans, as the curtain closed on the characters’ final moments of high school, we opened up our Macbook and did a Google search. Sure enough, Loopt exists – and unlike most of the other things that fill the lives of Manhattan’s elite – it’s available to the general public, and for free.
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