In the paper, the authors reflect on the issue of digital inequalities and attempt to answer the question of whether, in the era of the twenty-first century, digital inequalities can affect the generation raised in the spirit of technological determinism - Generation “C”, and if so, what are its contemporary faces and what consequences it entails. After all, it is expected that, appropriately for the peculiarities of a society whose main stages of the secondary socialisation process were centred around technology and unrestricted exposure to information online, it will easily navigate the depths of the commonly prevailing information excess. The results presented here are an excerpt from a broader study focusing on the measurement of competence in the area of critical analysis of media communications based on the method of a three-stage verification of competence - a standardised declaration sheet, a self-assessment and a practical test of competence.