Okay, I’m just gonna come out and say it: there’s no way I could complete both of these requests in two minutes and every time I see the headline it drives me crazy!
Did you try? I just tried it myself: followed three accounts in 17 seconds (having lost a couple of seconds in starting my stopwatch), which gave me 1m43s to think about my network and whether it includes athletes. Also open to alternate headlines, e.g. Two tiny requests from HIA, A Variable Amount of your Time Depending on your Click Speed, Network Size, and Desire to Spend Time on the Task.
Ok. I guess this comment is a little argumentative and not the highest signal to noise but:
I can see how someone who hasn’t used their social media in a while, need time to login, unjig their password manager, agree to the latest privacy policy, etc. which takes several minutes.
Also, it seems like many introduction emails take more than 2 minutes to write, especially if you haven’t spoken to that person in a while or they are loosely connected.
Totally. I’m being very tongue in cheek above. The gist of the headline and the post is that community members can contribute to a potentially highly impactful project with a very trivial amount of time and energy spend. I very much agree that good intros take time.
Okay, I’m just gonna come out and say it: there’s no way I could complete both of these requests in two minutes and every time I see the headline it drives me crazy!
Did you try?
I just tried it myself: followed three accounts in 17 seconds (having lost a couple of seconds in starting my stopwatch), which gave me 1m43s to think about my network and whether it includes athletes.
Also open to alternate headlines, e.g. Two tiny requests from HIA, A Variable Amount of your Time Depending on your Click Speed, Network Size, and Desire to Spend Time on the Task.
Ok. I guess this comment is a little argumentative and not the highest signal to noise but:
I can see how someone who hasn’t used their social media in a while, need time to login, unjig their password manager, agree to the latest privacy policy, etc. which takes several minutes.
Also, it seems like many introduction emails take more than 2 minutes to write, especially if you haven’t spoken to that person in a while or they are loosely connected.
Totally. I’m being very tongue in cheek above.
The gist of the headline and the post is that community members can contribute to a potentially highly impactful project with a very trivial amount of time and energy spend.
I very much agree that good intros take time.
Yes, of course, that’s fair. I guess it can be difficult to communicate tone online.