Social Privacy Checkup

Every major social app ships with the most exposure-friendly defaults: public profiles, suggested to strangers, location attached, messages open to anyone. That is not an accident — it is the business model. The settings that protect you exist, but they are buried three menus deep, renamed every redesign, and occasionally reset by updates. Most people never touch them, not because they do not care, but because nobody ever gave them an ordered list.

That is exactly what this checkup is: one ordered list per platform, covering the six apps where oversharing costs people the most — Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X, Snapchat, and LinkedIn. Each step tells you what to change, why it matters, and where to tap to find it, written to survive the next UI shuffle. Work through one platform in about ten minutes, tick the boxes, and your progress is saved on your device for next time.

Two honest caveats. First, this tool never asks for your login — anyone promising to "fix your privacy" who does is the threat. Second, private settings are a strong door lock, not a vault: approved followers can still screenshot anything you post, so what you share still matters. Pair this checkup with the Overshare Checker (scan what you are about to post) and the Media Metadata Scrubber (strip GPS from what you upload) for the full routine.