What precautions should be taken to safeguard one's online identity?

Some of the precautions that one should take to safeguard their online identity are:

1. Exclude important personal information like phone number, address, school name, etc. from our social media profiles. Be selective in adding friends and hitting like button.
2. Turning our GPS location settings to "off" from our phone's privacy settings to keep our where­abouts more private.
3. Watch out for 'phishing' e-mails. Never react to any messages with account data or passwords. Delete the email.
4. Use strong passwords that are a combination of letters, numbers and special characters.
5. Use Private browsing/Incognito Mode that helps us to prevent saving of our details as in the autofill feature, browsing history, data in cookies and location tracking.
6. Add an extra layer of security by using multi-factor authentication for important online accounts like email, social media, bank accounts, etc.