Communication as the foundation of social life is the most important component of private and business interpersonal relationships. Quality and functional interpersonal relationships are created through quality communication. The digital age has provided us with many tools that make communication easier, but at the same time it has presented numerous challenges to communication and communicators. When the development of social networks and the digital age began to erase temporal and spatial boundaries in communication, the question began to arise whether they also erase the amount of time we spend communicating with our interlocutors live. In addition, the question arose as to how mediated interpersonal communication affects the development of communication skills, especially among the younger population of student age. Precisely because of these questions, the main goal of this paper was to investigate and analyze young people's views on the influence of the digital age on the development of communication skills, since young people of student age - between 19 and 25 years old - are the biggest users of communication through new technologies. In the theoretical part of the work, the communication skills that are investigated - empathy, assertiveness and active listening - are described, while for the research part, the method of a survey questionnaire conducted among young students was chosen. On the basis of the conducted research, the results were obtained, according to which it can be seen that the respondents are aware of the importance of live communication and that they prefer and better practice communication skills through direct face-to-face communication.