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 here: http://www.bacn2.com/

It’s any email you receive that isn’t spam, but isn’t exactly a personal message either. Your electronic phone bill is bacn. Your Google alerts are bacn.

Bacn. It’s better than spam.

Coined by Chris Brogan

Bacn, pronounced 'bacon', is "Notifications you want, but not right now."

Moreover, it's those e-mails you get from sites (such as Twitter, Facebook, Viddler), that you want, but don't really have time for.

Bacn is a step above spam, and a step below personal e-mail.

Email that isn't spam, but isn't a personal message either. Email you want/need, but not right now.

Term coined at PodCamp Pittsburgh 2, Sunday August 19th 2007.

(pronounced bacon) The automated e-mails and notifications received from web sites, especially social networking sites, which clutter up your inbox.

Bacn falls somewhere between spam and personal e-mails, an example being a 'friend request' e-mail.

(noun) Automated system emails of importance that are better than SPAM. Bacn is not SPAM.

Bacn consists of the following: MySpace friend requests, PayPal payment receipts, electronic bills, email list digests, twitter follow messages, etc.

Origin: PodCamp Pittsburgh 2, Pittsburgh, PA, August 18-19, 2007.

It's not spam, but it's not from a person, and it's in your inbox. Bacn is an automated notification that you know you might get (Facebook addition, alert from an automated process or sensor), and it's clutter in your inbox. Depending on the type of bacn it is, it might even be "important" clutter. Solution: filter it into your Bacn folder.