Document from the year 2016 in the subject Computer Science - Internet, New Technologies, language: English, abstract: In the present paper, various ways of virtual communication will be illustrated. In this connection, first, common possibilities of communicating virtually such as e-mail, instant messaging and VoIP will be presented before two major and popular instant messaging tools available on the Internet, Slack and Skype, are going to be examined in greater detail by pointing out their strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats with the help of a SWOT-analysis. This is supposed to...