Innovation in Language Learning

This paper investigates Moroccan students’ online behaviors exhibited through social networking sites. Such social facts raise the interest of researchers and stakeholders to provide immunity for vulnerable adolescents and teach them how to manipulate social networking sites with minimum risks. For that reason, privacy and safety measures need to be invested and promulgated. Still, there is a lack of research covering issues related to safety and privacy, and the role of school education on triggering students’ awareness towards such conducts. To this aim,  288 secondary school students were surveyed on a) their frequency of registration into social networking sites accounts,  b) their attitudes towards privacy and safety measures, and c) whether they see any role of  school education in empowering them to cope with issues of privacy and safety. Findings of the study show that i) students share different personal information that they are not aware of personal information privacy, ii)  they scarcely adopt techniques to escape cyber-bullying, and iii) they hold negative attitudes towards the implications of school education regarding the risks of online personal information.