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I see a tremendous number of benefits in our students being digitally connected, but I also see some very serious disadvantages. One of the disadvantages that I haven't noticed being mentioned yet in this thread is that student issues don't "die a natural death" nearly as easily now as they did in years past.
At one time, many types of teasing about a particular incident died down as students focused on something else. After a weekend away from school when students had been busy with their jobs, family, and pastimes and hadn't seen or been in contact with all of the students from school, they forgot about a fellow student accidentally spilling their lunch tray or falling asleep in class or having a wardrobe malfunction. When students returned to school on Monday, the talk was about something new.
Today, these sort of incidents get photographed and/or mentioned in text on social media platforms and the news spreads much further than it did in the past. The news also comes up over and over again. Students are in contact with each other digitally, so they don't have any rest from irritating each other during breaks from seeing each other in person. As a result, embarrassing incidents take much, much longer to die down. The little pratfalls of being human can't stay little.
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