Negative aspects of virtual communication ant its pastoral appraisal

The article describes psycholinguistic features of virtual communication, both negative and positive aspects of its influence on digital content consumers, adults and children alike. It also focuses on the phenomenon of cyber-addiction and on the variants of deviant behavior in the digital world, such as internet-addiction, cyber-stalking, internet-aggression, as well as discusses possible ways of dealing with that actual problem, giving it a theological appraisal.