Social-psychological peculiarities of youth caused by virtual communication

The article discusses the importance of virtual communication in youth, the issues of the study of socialpsychological peculiarities of young people caused by social networking and raises the problem of the influence of virtual communication on socio-psychological and age characteristics of young people. Besides, it gives an analysis of the social situation of development during adolescence, the leading type of activity, the features of intellectual development of youths and describes the approaches to the development of the questionnaire for the study of social and psychological peculiarities of the personality, caused by virtual communication.