Loneliness in the network: specifics of personal fulfillment in the context of virtual environment

The article deals with the problem of personal fulfillment in the context of virtual environment. The author discusses how high technologies impact a lifeworld of a person, a personality itself, as well as the most important components of human life. The author considers the changes associated with embracing of the 21st century new language reality, which today is one of the brightest and evident forms of personal fulfillment in the context of virtual environment. The paper proves the thesis that the sphere of virtual technologies has built insuperable border between people, therefore, the actual interpersonal communication is gradually forced out by communication in the virtual environment. It is inevitably raises a problematic issue of virtual communication as a simulacrum of actual communication, which intensifies the problem of loneliness in the network.