Every day citizens spend much of their time on social networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Twitter, Myspace, etc. In addition to a convenient platform for virtual communication, due to the ability of social networks to bring information to a large audience, social networks are becoming a full-fledged tool for business.

 Despite the large number of scientific researches in the field of electronic evidence in civil procedure, it should be noted that the legal literature has not yet covered the specifics of electronic evidence obtained from social networks.

 In the context of mass use of social networks, the issue of clear legal regulation of evidence obtained from social networks becomes extremely important. In particular, the current civil procedure legislation of Ukraine does not sufficiently regulate the issues of submission and research of electronic evidence obtained from social networks, as the current norms do not take into account the procedural and legal features of relevant evidences.

The purpose of the scientific article is research and streamline the features of electronic evidence obtained from social networks and analysis of the court practice in the use of relevant evidence in civil proceedings.

The analysis allows us to state that the legal regulation of electronic evidence in civil procedure of Ukraine needs to be improved considering the procedural and legal features of the relevant evidence. According to the results of the research, it is established that the procedural and legal features of electronic evidence obtained from social networks are the difficulty of ensuring the process of identifying the person who created or disseminated certain information on the social network; the ability to change the username of the page on the social network; the difficulty of impartial assessment in determining whether negative information disseminated through social networks is a factual statement or evaluative judgment; the ability to delete each individual message by a person in a social network ormessenger; the ability to change and delete information in the original electronic evidence.

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