If you use your email account frequently, such as in Gmail, you may have noticed that when we are going to send an email we meet CC and CCO. In fact, it is very likely that you use them when you use your email account. Although many people don't really know what these two terms mean.
Therefore, below we tell you everything there is to know about CC and BCC. Since they are options that we find in our day to day, that in many cases we use, but we do not really know the origin or the meaning they have. We answer this below.
These two terms have a lot in common and it is common for us to use them in our email account. So it is good to know more about them and what they mean, since it is very likely that we will use them in our case. Also if you want to know a little more about the origin of this type of functions, it is interesting to access this data.
What is CC and what is it used for in our account
When we are going to send an email to our account, we have to enter a recipient. But next to this option is the CC option, on which we have to click to be able to use it. In Spanish, when we talk about CC, it is translated as with copy, but its original meaning is that of carbon copy, so it has its origin in the time when typewriters were used.
At that time, it was normal for carbon paper will be used between the two sheets. In this way, an original and a copy of the document in question are obtained. This is something that is also transferred in the current case, when we make use of this option when sending an email from our email account, whether personal or work.
If we use CC in a message, it means that we include in this message a person who we want you to be aware that we have sent it. It may be that someone asks us to send a message, so we send a copy to this person as well, so they know that we have done it. This person will be able to access said email normally, they will receive the same email that you sent.
What is CCO and what can we use it for
On the other hand, in addition to the CC option that we have discussed in the previous section, we also find the option of CCO. Surely many will think that there is a relationship between the two terms, and this is true. Although it must be emphasized that these are two different terms, so they are not exactly the same.
When we talk about the BCC option that we find in Gmail, can be translated as Blind copy, at least it is the most common translation that is made of this concept. We can also translate it as "With carbon copy", we usually find both when we want to know more about it. The origin of this term or this translation has its origin before the existence of the Internet. Papers that were copied were used in the past, so that the last sheet (of tracing paper) was used for filing or hiding in the company. A private copy in this case, which was not always recorded.
When we use the Bcc option in our account, we want a person to have proof that we have sent this email. But we don't want the main recipient to know that we have also sent this email to a person. Therefore, if you send an email to a person, but you want another to be able to see it as well, without the first one knowing. In this specific case, which may be common on occasion, then we use this option in Gmail or our email account.