bacn

Any email you receive that isn’t spam, but isn’t exactly a personal message either. Includes Google and Myspace alerts, newsletters etc.

Bacn. It’s better than spam.

by Bernie Bernbaum August 28, 2007

bacn

Low-priority email that is somewhere between the spam & personal email that enters your inbox every day. Examples include account alerts, newsletters, payment receipts and twitter requests. Bacn differentiates itself from spam in that it's email that you probably want to receive, but just don't have the time to deal with right now, and it has become an increasing problem in the age of web 2.0 & online social networking.

The term was coined by folks at the PodCamp Pittsburgh 2 Conference on or around August 19th, 2007.

More info at bacn2.com

Joe: Dude, I missed my brother's bar mitzvah because I spent the day reading through all the bacn in my inbox.

Danny: You're such a tool.

Joe: Can't... stop. Too weak... to... manage alerts. Must... label... auto-archive... cut the fat.

by akshay_s August 29, 2007

bacn

You know all those notifications, newsletters, project notifications, updates etc. that you sign up for and really, really want to keep up to date on but don’t seem to have the time for right now? (and now, and now, and now). - Andy Quayle

"I’m reading through my bacn"

"I got so much bacn today!"

"Dude, enough with the bacn already!"

by Badasstronaut August 24, 2007

bacn

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.

"My inbox is full of spam, but only a little bacn"

by Caidoz August 27, 2007

bacn

Email that is neither spam nor personal mail. The second class of email. It's the notifications and newsletters from websites. Anytime you submit a definition you receive bacn from urbandictionary.

I need to clear out my spam so I could read my bacn.

by papapanda January 02, 2009

bacn

A piece of email that isn't spam, but isn't a genuine email either. Bacn is most likely to come to your inbox as a message from a service or website you are a member of.

-Dude, I just got an email saying that Jenny messaged me on Facebook!
-That's alright, it's just bacn.

-50% of all items at Megamart. That's a bacn email.

by Piotr Lato August 28, 2007

bacn

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.

ARGH! My inbox is full of facebook and twitter bacn!

by Michael V. August 27, 2007