Introduction. This text is an attempt to confront the definition of digital families in the contemporary reality, full of contrast and ambiguity. The changes that have occurred in the paradigm of family life over the last decades are shown and analysed. Aim. The article aims to answer the question: how have contemporary families changed under the influence of cultural changes, especially the penetration of the world of digital relationships? Research question: why is it possible to talk about family digital ties today? Materials and methods. Analysis of the literature on the subject, explaining the basic mechanisms of change. Analysis of concepts: surveillance capitalism (Soshany Zuboff), cultural narcissism (Christopher Lasch), digital dementia (Manfred Spitzer), the false world of perfection (Mirosława Marody). I support my considerations with the long-term scientific methodology used in the project: Love in the Age of the Self, as well as the practical experience of an educator recognizing the difficulties in the functioning of modern families, in the context of the influence of technicized interpersonal relationships. Results. The problem of unstable and lost family ties, as a result of psychological paralysis and the pressure of external conditions of the coexistence of the digital world in the real decisions and functioning of families, was recognized. Conclusions. Family pedagogy, wishing to expand the support network for digital families, should teach the rational and critical use of media communicators. Activity time spent on digital relationships robs the modern family of its intimacy and closeness of ties and destructively cools down emotionality, closing the space for building relationships in the real world.