The article deals with the issues related to the rethinking the content and the role of communicative competence in the information world. The study of communicative ompetence development specifics of the virtual type becomes an urgent scientific task. In modern society, communication is a determining factor in all social processes, and accordingly, the individual communicative competence becomes its key property, providing the basic level of interrelations necessary to maintain sustainability and social reproduction of this type of development.
