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Internet industry jargon is a unique way of speaking used by people working in the internet industry. It shows how those people talk and communicate with each other in their work setting and can vary with different language cultures in different countries. The jargons are all familiar words in our daily life but are combined and used in the internet industry to create new concepts that describe and express specific ideas. Those jargons are intensively used in their speaking. It is often hard for people outside of this industry to understand what they are talking about although every word seems familiar.

Creation and Evolution
In the era of technology, the internet industry develops at a very fast pace. As the industry’s dominance has expanded, so have their vocabularies. The startup ecosystem is rife with buzzwords and the language of the industry has also become trendy in the corporate world. Internet industry jargon represents the mindset of people in this industry. It was used to express more specifically and make group identification. Sometimes people in this industry to show how professional and high-end their ideas are by using these esoteric words.

Appreciation
Using jargon can identify you as an insider, a trustworthy peer of the target audience, makes your communication more specific and informative, and helps you communicate more efficiently.

Creating a new word can change the definition of the original word to adapt to new context in order to describe a concept more vividly and accurately.

Creating a new concept means to master the right to speak in the industry.

Criticism
It is difficult to decipher and insular an thus impenetrable to the outside. For newcomers in the industry, it is hard for them to to learn how business works because of the language barriers.

Accurate academic interpretation, although complex, has important value. However, if it is not conducive to knowledge renewal, but a form of self-enrichment within the circle and blocking the flow of knowledge, its spread will no longer disseminate knowledge more equally but will blur issue focus and the reinforce knowledge barriers.

Some people use jargons just to make them sound smart and make their ideas sound high-end. For example, a "double opt-in intro" describes the process of making an introduction between two people who both agree for the introduction to be made. It's entirely redundant since anyone who values their connections will get permission before making the introduction anyway. It's ok for all of us to go back to saying "introduction."

Quotes
“Silicon Valley, a place equally adept at generating buzzwords as generating profit.” - Michael Kleinman, The Guardian

“The hyperbolic language that plows down the streets of San Francisco faster than a Google Bus…can be off-putting, nonsensical and completely ridiculous.” - Steve Goldbloom, PBS Newshour

“It’s sort of surprising how many of the tech elite can’t communicate with regular folk outside the Silicon Valley bubble.” - Steve Tobak, Fox Business

“Hang with startup kids long enough, and you’ll notice that they have their own language.” - Alex Wilhelm and Jason Rowley, TechCrunch

“Every industry has its own esoteric vernacular … but Silicon Valley’s reaches a whole new level of douchery. Even at the best of times, Valley-speak can be impossible for the layperson to comprehend.” - Hamish McKenzie, Pando Daily