Social Media Safety & Footprint - Cyber Fundamentals Course 13

What you share publicly is what scammers, stalkers, and strangers can use. This course tightens your privacy settings and shrinks your public footprint, without making you disappear, in plain English.

What’s inside:

Why your footprint matters — what strangers can piece together from your ordinary posts

Core concepts — the four settings that shrink your footprint, plus a spot-the-overshare activity that shows exactly what a normal post gives away

The audience ladder — from specific people (safest) to public (reserve for a billboard), ranked

The decision matrix — what to lock down and what’s safe to post, ranked by priority

Clarity Scripts — exact words for the pre-post check, the billboard test, and running a privacy audit

A timed action plan — view your profile as the public sees it, lock down your defaults, then repeat across every account

6 self-tests — confirm your public footprint has genuinely shrunk

By the last page: tightened privacy settings on your main accounts, a clear sense of what’s safe to post, and a smaller public trail that gives scammers and strangers far less to work with — a solid 3/10 on social footprint.

Format: instant-download PDF 

Length: 45–60 minutes

Best for: anyone who wants to keep using social media while giving scammers and strangers far less to work with

Recommended next: Course 14 — Safe Online Shopping & Banking

Part of the GhostNet Solutions Encryption Cyber Fundamentals series. Also available as the Track C bundle (5 courses) or the full 20-course ecosystem.