Socio-philosophical problem of the digital generation representatives’ communication

The article deals with the socio-philosophical problem of the digital generation virtual communication. The authors shows that digital technologies expand human capabilities, allow us to overcome the spatial and temporal boundaries of communication. Virtual communication minimizes stress when interacting with another person, levels the status differences of interlocutors, reduces the influence of cultural stereotypes. Virtual communication complicates interpersonal interaction, because in the virtual world the Other is absent in his physicality. This makes it hard to develop the skill of reading non-verbal information, without which it is difficult to understand the feelings, thoughts and actions of another person and build fruitful communication with him.