With the increasing and fast development of new technologies in the last three decades, the way of communication has changed greatly. Internet communication has replaced writing letters, but today it is also a substitute for everyday conversations, arrangements and discussions of all ranges, durations and topics. The idea of this paper is to investigate the ways in which users of social networks and messaging applications compensate for the lack of sound elements of the message such as stress and sentence intonation, tempo and dynamics of speech and how spoken language affects record creation and whether different record formats encourage different message reception. The research is conducted on 46 examples of comments and private messages collected on Croatian forums, profiles of social networks visited by Croatian users and from private chats of interlocutors who correspond in Croatian. Several examples in English and Russian have been added to compare and further explain aspects that in Croatian examples may not be come to the fore due to the structure of the language itself. Deviations from the orthographic norm are, the causes of deviations and the consequences of deviations are studied on examples, i.e. how users interpret different comments and messages. Graphostylistic analysis of examples determines the possible intention which the author had when creating a comment or a message, and the graphemic figures used by the authors in selected examples are mostly figures of letters and punctuation marks, i.e. decapitalization, dediacritization, case, bold, change of color, figures of addition, substitution, subtraction and transliteration, all to make the record as expressive as it would be if it were speech. The analysis was supported by a survey in which 137 respondents of various profiles answered questions related to the creation and the reception of the written message. The results of the survey help to determine the universality of the creation and reception of individual graphemic figures and finally determine the written texts of digital discourse as an adequate replacement for oral language, thanks to these figures.