What is Bacn?

You’ve not only heard of, but have personally experience thousands of spam email messages — but what about Bacn? Is it a new kind of spam? Well sort of. While spam is unsolicited email that you don’t want, Bacn has been described as email you want, just not right now. Bacn is unsolicited yet somewhat wanted, automated messages or alerts that are sent out through social network tools (ie facebook group messages, twitter updates etc). It isn’t spam, it’s the middle class of email. It’s the notifications of a new post on your facebook page, or a new follower of your Twitter updates, or the email newsletter you get from your favorite company.

In the context of social networks like facebook, be sure that as black hat social network marketers get a grasp of the social media space, and as we all add endless numbers of modules to our facebook accounts, there will be more and more solicited yet not-really-wanted-or-needed messages in all of our facebook and other social network inboxes.

What are you doing about limiting your bacn intake? Getting sick of all of the notifications you receive in Facebook now that the novelty is starting to wear off?

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