[bluGill]

That would work for my parents. It means my second cousin and I exchange "Christmas cards" and no more which leaves a lot out.

[Sir_Cmpwn]

You have almost 9,000 hours in a year. Surely you can find time in them to write to your second cousin.

[yawz]

How long does it take to write a 2 page letter? I'm not even talking about preparing the mail, posting, etc. I'm in software development, just like yourself, and I can probably type many times faster than I can write.

I think you're being too romantic about the good old snail mail. ;)

[Sir_Cmpwn]

You can write snail mail with a text editor on a computer and print it off...

[yawz]

(replying at this level, because HN seems to have a depth limit for nested messages)

Drew, I think I understand where you're coming from. But as stated earlier on, I don't even connect to Facebook daily, let alone spending hours on it.

[Sir_Cmpwn]

You didn't answer my question, though. I didn't expect you to write letters daily either. How does the amount of time you spend on Facebook compare to the amount of time you could see yourself spending writing letters?

[yawz]

I prefer not to repeat myself and spend that time for more happy memories ;).

[Sir_Cmpwn]

How many hours per week do you spend on Facebook instead of making "happy memories"?

[Symbiote]

(I downvoted you for excessive repetition. You have posted 17 times in this thread, mostly antagonistically, without saying much new.

That's even less useful than the time I spent on Facebook this evening :-)