PT Journal AU NESTERAK, T MACZKA, I TI INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNICATION BARRIERS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TIMES SO Trends in education PY 2012 BP 523 EP 529 VL 5 IS 1 DE new technologies; communication; intergenerational barriers. AB Information society - that is the term used to call the modern world. It means, that the Modern man is obliged to find his place and in the world full of new issues and a great amount of information. Every day new technologies which are aimed at making our life easier are created in the world. Young people use e-mail send letters, postcards, news. Communicators are used for meeting in the net. Phones are used for talks, which not long ago were run on the streets, at market stalls or at cafes. Does new communication help in interpersonal contacts? How do new technologies influence the quality of interpersonal communication and what do elderly people, who have not used such devices before to communicate with each other think about them? ER