Email Bankruptcy
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I was offline for most of yesterday and late last night before turning in I decided to check to see if I had any email.
Just from the subscriptions I have signed up for over 150 emails flooded into my already overflowing in box. Between Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Spock, LinkedIn, Plaxo YouTube, Revver and my blogging network I am overloaded with inbound emails.
At Podcamp Pittsburgh last year a group came up with a name for these emails. Bacn (pronounced bacon) is the term they chose for electronic messages which have been subscribed to and are not unsolicited but are often unread by the recipient for a long period of time, if at all.
I cannot physically keep on top of the influx of emails. I have only one choice, which is to declare email bankruptcy and go on a bacn free diet.
I, newmediaMike of Toronto, Ontario Canada do as of this date the third day of January in the year 2008 do hereby declare email bankruptcy. My In box cannot take the strain of the incoming email any longer.
This will entail a mass deletion of all my emails sitting unread in my email box. Whenever a new piece of bacn arrives in my In box I will automatically log onto the site it came from and change my email preferences. I know I brought this on myself when I signed up for these social media sites. I just didn’t think ahead to the deluge of notices I’d receive.
I mean, who knew I’d ever be so popular!
