Bacn Bits

August 20, 2007

Bacn is a new problem now plaguing our email inboxes. Putting it simply, Bacn is email you receive that isn’t spam… And isn’t personal mail. It’s the middle class of email. It’s notifications of a new post to your Facebook wall or a new follower on Twitter. It’s the Google alert for your name and the newsletter from your favorite company.

This was brought up at Podcamp Pittsburgh recently and I believe they are on to something here. As I sign up for more and more of these social services (for which I’m trying to stop), I find that my email is swelling with these stupid notifications. Up until now, I’ve just turned them off and as a result, I visit these sites less often. I think I’ll apply this Bacn principle and create a new tag for it. Mail filtering should be simple since it’s not really spam, but it’s close