The end of the year brings Hanukkah, Christmas, the stress of finding the perfect New Year's Eve plans and a barrage of best-of lists. Christmas and Hanukkah are now behind us, and we may not be able to help with the New Year's plans, but here are a few of the best things we read and saw this year. "Chathexis," n+1; "On Gchat" by Caroline Bankoff, Thought Catalog; "Chat History" by Rebecca Armendariz, Good Magazine Gchat is how we talk now--our lives a connect-the-dots of green, orange, red and gray. A generation of us now finds one another communicating in a new language from behind the gleaming shields of computer screens, becoming experts in the Gchat deadpan ("i think i kind of like drake. is that wrong.") and in parsing the social nuances of the medium ("oh...

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