Every profession has its speaks, jargons, slangs and terminologies, but people outside the profession may not give a shit about the professional language. But when it comes to the tech slangs of the folks in the Silicon Valley (the home of Google, Apple and Facebook), we need to know some of their slangs as we can't do without their products.

Silicon Valley slangs, also called technobabble, geek speak or Valley lingo, have made up a language on their own, and there is even an online dictionary that explains the meaning of the slangs. In this post, we aren't aiming to give you the meaning of all Silicon Valley slangs; instead we are presenting to you some of the tech slangs used in referring to the everyday event in the life of tech-product users.

Silicon Valley Slangs You Must Know

1. Zombie Mode: This a state whereby a phone user, commuting to work in the morning, actively engages her phone throughout the journey and looking up only once in awhile to see if she has gotten to her destination. If you are one of the people that do this, now you know the name of being in this state.

2. Digital Detox: This Silicon Valley slang means snubbing (or not using) emails, social networks or anything digital for a few days. When you deliberately stay away from anything that has a screen for a number of days, you are digital detoxing for the number of days.

3. Email Bankruptcy: In the standard English dictionary, bankruptcy means to be in a state of insolvency, but Email Bankruptcy, as a Silicon Valley slang, means when you have thousands of unread emails in your inbox; and you dare not even try to start reading them, and your best option is to delete them all. Personally my YahooMail has been in a state of email bankruptcy, even since a switched to GMail a couple of years ago.

4. Troll: A troll is a person that is always spreading negative and hate comments on the Internet. He is always on Twitter ranting, on Facebook throwing jabs, and on Nairaland spreading hatred with his comments.

5. Phubbing: All phone users are guilty of this Silicon Valley slang. At a point in time, we have all been in a verbal conversation with someone, but instead of paying attention and maintaining eye contact, our attention is on our phone and we hardly take our eye away from it. Phubbing was coined from the merging of phone and snubbing. The next time you talk to someone and she busies herself with her phone, just tell her to stop phubbing; but make sure you don't pronounce the word as fumbling.

6. Procrastatweeting: When you keep on tweeting and tweeting and tweeting when you ought to be doing other task, you are procrastatweeting --meaning you are procrastinating as a result of using Twitter. Whenever you find yourself doing this, the Silicon Valley dudes suggested you use the hashtag: #ProcrastaTweeting.

7. Nomophobia: Nomophobia, coined by British researchers, is an abbreviation of no-mobile-phone-phobia. It is a syndrome in which one experiences an irrational fear of being out of a cell phone.

8. Phone Sleep: Phone Sleep is a Silicon Valley slang referring to the period of time you spend in checking your phone, on bed, before you finally sleep.

9. Brain Rape: Brain Rape is a Silicon Valley slang meaning an immoral act whereby a big company disguises as wanting to buy a startup but only to steal and replicate the intellectually property of the startup, after showing it the secret. A form of brain raping is the replication of Snapchat stories on Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, and Instagram. Read about about Facebook's missions against Snapchat here.

10. Worder: A worder is anyone who does nothing other than typing in words on his computer, thereby reducing his computer to an advance typewriter.

11. Microserf: If you are so loyal to a particular operating system, either on your phone or on your computer, you are a microserf. Most Nigerians don't want to try out another OS aside Microsoft Windows and Android; in the Silicon Valley all of us that don't want to try out an alternative OS are called microserf.

12. Fingertip Like: Have you ever mistakenly liked a Facebook post or an Instragam post or even a tweet before? If yes what you did has a name in Silicon Valley slang -- it's called fingertip like. Just make sure you don't fingertip like your exe's post.

13. Sticker LovePeddler: You would have met sticker whores before; they are the people that stick dozens of logos of popular high-tech brand to their computer. They do so to show off how techie they are.

14. Twitter Ghosting: Twitter Ghosting means creating a fan Twitter account for a celeb and promoting the account to generate followers.

That's it, you now know the 14 Silicon Valley slangs applied to everyday life of tech-product users.

Source: http://howtotechnaija.com/silicon-valley-slangs-tech-slangs/

CC: Lalasticlala

tunisbaba:
Every profession has its speaks, jargons, slangs and terminologies, but people outside the profession may not give a shit about the professional language. But when it comes to the tech slangs of the folks in the Silicon Valley (the home of Google, Apple and Facebook), we need to know some of their slangs as we can't do without their products.

Silicon Valley slangs, also called technobabble, geek speak or Valley lingo, have made up a language on their own, and there is even an online dictionary that explains the meaning of the slangs. In this post, we aren't aiming to give you the meaning of all Silicon Valley slangs; instead we are presenting to you some of the tech slangs used in referring to the everyday event in the life of tech-product users.

Silicon Valley Slangs You Must Know

1. Zombie Mode: This a state whereby a phone user, commuting to work in the morning, actively engages her phone throughout the journey and looking up only once in awhile to see if she has gotten to her destination. If you are one of the people that do this, now you know the name of being in this state.

2. Digital Detox: This Silicon Valley slang means snubbing (or not using) emails, social networks or anything digital for a few days. When you deliberately stay away from anything that has a screen for a number of days, you are digital detoxing for the number of days.

3. Email Bankruptcy: In the standard English dictionary, bankruptcy means to be in a state of insolvency, but Email Bankruptcy, as a Silicon Valley slang, means when you have thousands of unread emails in your inbox; and you dare not even try to start reading them, and your best option is to delete them all. Personally my YahooMail has been in a state of email bankruptcy, even since a switched to GMail a couple of years ago.

4. Troll: A troll is a person that is always spreading negative and hate comments on the Internet. He is always on Twitter ranting, on Facebook throwing jabs, and on Nairaland spreading hatred with his comments.

5. Phubbing: All phone users are guilty of this Silicon Valley slang. At a point in time, we have all been in a verbal conversation with someone, but instead of paying attention and maintaining eye contact, our attention is on our phone and we hardly take our eye away from it. Phubbing was coined from the merging of phone and snubbing. The next time you talk to someone and she busies herself with her phone, just tell her to stop phubbing; but make sure you don't pronounce the word as fumbling.

6. Procrastatweeting: When you keep on tweeting and tweeting and tweeting when you ought to be doing other task, you are procrastatweeting --meaning you are procrastinating as a result of using Twitter. Whenever you find yourself doing this, the Silicon Valley dudes suggested you use the hashtag: #ProcrastaTweeting.

7. Nomophobia: Nomophobia, coined by British researchers, is an abbreviation of no-mobile-phone-phobia. It is a syndrome in which one experiences an irrational fear of being out of a cell phone.

8. Phone Sleep: Phone Sleep is a Silicon Valley slang referring to the period of time you spend in checking your phone, on bed, before you finally sleep.

9. Brain Rape: Brain Rape is a Silicon Valley slang meaning an immoral act whereby a big company disguises as wanting to buy a startup but only to steal and replicate the intellectually property of the startup, after showing it the secret. A form of brain raping is the replication of Snapchat stories on Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, and Instagram. Read about about Facebook's missions against Snapchat here.

10. Worder: A worder is anyone who does nothing other than typing in words on his computer, thereby reducing his computer to an advance typewriter.

11. Microserf: If you are so loyal to a particular operating system, either on your phone or on your computer, you are a microserf. Most Nigerians don't want to try out another OS aside Microsoft Windows and Android; in the Silicon Valley all of us that don't want to try out an alternative OS are called microserf.

12. Fingertip Like: Have you ever mistakenly liked a Facebook post or an Instragam post or even a tweet before? If yes what you did has a name in Silicon Valley slang -- it's called fingertip like. Just make sure you don't fingertip like your exe's post.

13. Sticker LovePeddler: You would have met sticker whores before; they are the people that stick dozens of logos of popular high-tech brand to their computer. They do so to show off how techie they are.

14. Twitter Ghosting: Twitter Ghosting means creating a fan Twitter account for a celeb and promoting the account to generate followers.

That's it, you now know the 14 Silicon Valley slangs applied to everyday life of tech-product users.

Source: http://howtotechnaija.com/silicon-valley-slangs-tech-slangs/

CC: Lalasticlala

That number 12 is familiar

Yea, coo1

zombie mode activated..

benuejosh:
zombie mode activated..

Hahahaha

That's silicon Valley, we have yaba valley. What's the slang that we use here?

Techm8:
That's silicon Valley, we have yaba valley. What's the slang that we use here?

That is in compilation.