The current stage of development of society is characterized by the transformation of production, economic, political and social life, the active dynamics of processes in all spheres of human activity. The decisive influence on the listed processes is exerted by the Internet, which also updates the changes in the functioning of the language. In the Russian language, there is an increase in the personal principle, stylistic dynamism and stylistic contrast, dialogic communication. Internet communication is characterized by instant inclusion in the speech situation and the same quick exit from it. Hence the abundance of conditional abbreviations and signs, emoticons. The phonetic features of the oral variety of colloquial speech are stably fixed in the replicas of informal web communication carried out in writing. Among the morphological features, the most noticeable is the absence of participial and adverbial phrases. In the field of syntax, there is a tendency towards analytics, as well as incomplete sentences with unsubstituted syntactic positions, the meaning of which can be established both from the situation and from background knowledge. In this article, you can see that both scientific, and business, and journalistic speech retain their main characteristics in terms of function, nature of speech.