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

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. ;)

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

(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.

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?

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

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

(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 :-)