🎯 What you will learn
- What a digital footprint is
- How to set accounts to private
- What never to post
👋 Let’s get started!
Everything you post leaves a digital footprint 👣 that can stick around for a long time. Let’s learn how to share the fun stuff while keeping the private stuff private.
🪜 Step by step
1. 👣 Your digital footprint
Posts, comments, likes and photos create a trail. Future schools and jobs might see it!
2. 🔒 Go private
Set accounts to private so only people you approve can see your posts.
3. 📍 Turn off location
Don’t tag your home, school or real-time location.
4. 🤔 The grandma test
Before posting, ask: would I be OK if grandma, my teacher and a stranger saw this?
5. 🧹 Clean up
Review old posts and friend lists every few months.
📖 Key words
Tap a card to flip it over!
- Digital footprint
- The trail of everything you do online 👣
- Privacy settings
- Controls for who sees your stuff ⚙️
- Geotag
- Location info attached to a post 📍
- Oversharing
- Posting too much personal info 🙊
🎨 Practice activity
📝 With a parent, open the privacy settings of an app you use (or a pretend one) and make a checklist of 5 settings to turn on.
🖐️ Try it yourself
- Play the Privacy Check! game 🎮
- Find the privacy settings in an app 🔧
- Turn off location sharing 📍
- Apply the grandma test to your last post 👵
Knowledge Check Quiz
- What is a digital footprint?
- Is it safe to post your school name and address?
- Who can see a private account’s posts?