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Email Bacn

27 Sep

I was on my bed last night reading an article from Mashable and I learnt a new word.

Bacn

At first I just glanced past it as I thought it was some mumbo jumbo jargon these tech sites use. But being my curious self, I decided to check it out.

Turns out Bacn is the cousin of Spam! (email)

Wikepedia defines it as:

“Bacn (pronounced “bacon”) is email which has been subscribed to and is therefore not unsolicited, but is often not read by the recipient for a long period of time, if at all. Bacn has been described as “email you want but not right now”

We all know what Spam is and now I finally have a word to explain all those unread emails in my account. (Currently at 9k+)

These include Facebook notifications, newsletters, Twitter messages, invitations, updates, payment receipts, etc. There are not unsolicited emails (spam) per-se but truth be told, I can’t be bothered to open all these mails every time.

So this was what Gmail Priority Inbox was aiming to solve eh?

I have enabled Priority Inbox but at the moment I get more Bacn than I do get any personal emails on this account. So I can judge its usefulness.

Way back when Gmail first rolled out, I remember that their tagline was something along the lines of

“Never delete emails again”

All this years I’ve kinda stayed true to that.

But I don’t know what got the better of me this morning. I deleted close to 1k emails.

And it felt good!

I am still weary of “Deleter’s Remorse” so I’ve kept them in the trash