With the development of the internet, “virtual” forms of communication have emerged, be they e-mails or social networks. Now if we follow J.L. Austin’s idea that to say something or communicate is always already to perform speech acts, we can ask whether the internet is a new space wherein it is possible to accomplish speech acts and even new kinds of speech acts (we can for instance wonder what “to poke” on Facebook consists in).   This hypothesis relies on two presuppositions. First, it presupposes that “virtual” communication can equally be a space wherein one can use language as one does in ordinary natural communication. Second and therefore, it presupposes that virtual speech acts have “felicity conditions” which parallel those identified by Austin.  In that paper, we examine whether there are “virtual” speech acts and which feature(s) they might have compared to those of natural language.