How to remove important friends in VK: the principle of forming important friends

Users of the domestic social network often ask how to remove a person from important friends on VK and thereby lower him in his personal rating. This is not difficult to do if you understand the principles and features of the function. In addition to the instructions, we will also consider a number of other questions - how to create such a list and add people to it, is it possible to look at such a list from a friend, etc. In general, we will look at all the points that directly or indirectly relate to this issue.

How to remove a person from VK on a PC or phone

There are several effective ways to remove important VKontakte friends from the top of the list. Each method works and gives the expected result, but the implementation nuances are slightly different.

How to remove people on PC

First, let's look at how to remove an important friend from VK on the full version of the site using a computer. Use one of the following methods.

Showing activity

The simplest method to remove a person from the top positions on VK is to communicate more with other people on the social network. This technique is long and requires manual steps. In particular, you need to go to the pages of users you want to promote, write messages to them, leave comments, etc. In this way, an unnecessary person is gradually “squeezed out” from the list. In addition, you don’t need to communicate with “extra” people at all.

Hiding a friend's news

To remove people from VK as important, exclude any news alerts from the person from your feed. You don't have to give up news altogether, so use this option temporarily.

First way:

• go to the page of the person you want to remove from the list of important friends in VK;
• Click on the three dots to enter the menu and select the Hide news section;
• leave the changes for a few days.

After lowering the level, you can restore it using the mentioned instructions and select the Show news section. We will talk about how to tag a person in groups, posts, etc. in another article.

If the method does not produce results, you can hide the news in another way:

• go to the News section in the VK main menu;
• on the right, go to the News tab and click on the “plus”;
• in the list that appears, click Add tab;
• Select one or more people and click Save.

After refreshing the page, find a post in the news from the person you want to remove from your important friends list. Click on the three dots and select This is not interesting to me, and then Don’t show news. To be more reliable, it is better to use the two methods discussed above.

Blocking

To change the location of important friends on the list in VK and remove some people from this list, use the black list. The idea is to temporarily remove the person from your friend category. To temporarily end a friendship, follow these steps:

• enter the main menu of the site and go to the Settings section;
• click on the Add to blacklist button;
• insert the person’s ID into the special field;
• click the Block button, which is located on the right side;
• wait a few hours and unblock the user again by adding him as a friend.

This method is very risky, so it is recommended to use it in extreme cases (if, of course, you value your friendship with the person).

Temporary deletion

To remove people from the category of important friends, you can temporarily remove them from your friends list. For this:

• enter the list of friends;
• find the profile you need;
• click on the ellipsis and select the Unfriend section;
• Click on the Cancel button that appears next to it and refresh the page.

After performing these actions, a comrade can drop many positions. At the same time, the owner of the page also loses his place in the ranking of the user he omitted.

Please note that the order of people does not change immediately, but after 2-3 hours (sometimes more) after performing these manipulations. A person can fall to the middle or even to the very bottom of the list.

How to remove people from your phone

The same methods as discussed above work here. Let's briefly look at their features:

1. Hiding news. Among the rest, find the news of the friend you plan to hide, and click on the Hide source news link.
2. Stop communicating. Ignore any messages and updates from the user, do not respond to SMS and do nothing on his page. At the same time, be active with other people.
3. Unfriend. Enter the list of friends, select the required profile and click under the photo in the “Your friends” section. Next, select Remove from friends. Log in to the subject's page and accept the application.

These actions allow you to remove people from the list and lower them to lower positions.

Decrease in activity

This method can be called passive, since nothing is required from the user. The main thing is not to go to the user’s page and not like his posts, which will pop up in your news list. It is also not recommended to correspond with your favorite; the process of demotion will slow down greatly because of this.

If you don’t like just waiting, you can try to increase activity towards another user so that he rises to a higher position. To get started, write him a couple of messages, comment on the posts and give him more likes. You need to visit the page several times - the more, the better. After this, the position will be upgraded.

How is the list of important ones formed?

To work correctly with this function, it is important to understand what important friends in VKontakte mean. We are talking about users whose pages are added to a special list of friends and have the highest priority. In other words, a person most often communicates with these people, goes to their page and performs certain actions. Knowing how the list is formed, you can raise the ratings of some people and lower others. The activity of the user located “on the other side” of VK is no less important.

Ways to check the result

Having chosen one of the methods, it is important to check its effectiveness. It's very easy to do.

1. You can select the search bar at the top, activating which you can see a list of important people.
2. And another option is to directly open “My Friends” and see who is in the lead there.

Attention! There is another method that is just as easy to use. You need to log in from a stranger’s page and view the list of friends that other users see.

Is it possible to determine the order of important friends

It is known that those people with whom various contacts are most often made through VK are placed first. In addition, the arrangement is affected by many factors, including the activity of correspondence, likes, comments, entering the page, etc. The exact principle of how important friends are formed in VK is known only to developers. As a result, social network members with the greatest authority rise to the very top of the tab and remain there until they lose their status.

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How to add a person to the list

Users are often interested in how to raise a person to the important category in VK. It's not difficult to do this. It is enough to show maximum activity in relation to the subject of interest - communicate with him, often log into his page, like, write on the wall, give gifts, etc. The more interaction, the higher the chances of adding the right people to the list of important comrades.

Interestingly, after adding a friend, he immediately gets into the TOP 5, but if there is no interaction, he drops to the bottom of the list. In other words, adding someone to VK as an important friend and leaving them there is possible only through communication. This cannot be done artificially.

Useful: how to send free gifts - this is detailed in the article.

Unsubscribing from a friend's news

You can reduce the importance of a candidate among important friends through his page. Under the photo we find three blue dots. They open a menu of actions with that user. Here you can set up notifications about him, alerts about broadcasts, you can complain or hide his news from your feed.

Unsubscribing from news is guaranteed to deprive the user of the status of importance in your contact list. It is easy to return a deleted function by performing the reverse list of steps. This way, you will again have access to the user's news, but he will no longer be important in your list.

Is it possible to hide the list of important friends

Now you know how important friends are identified in VK, how to add them and remove them from the list if necessary. But there are situations when you need to hide this list from strangers. To do this you need to use the hide function.

From PC:

• go to settings and click Privacy;
• find the line where it says, Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions;
• press the button and uncheck the checkbox for the people for whom you want to remove the list;
• save changes.

From phone:

• enter the menu and settings;
• go to the Privacy section and look for the same line as in the PC;
• unmark those people who should not see the list;
• save.

The hiding limit is 30 people, so keep this in mind.

What relationship statuses are there in VK?

In total, VKontakte has 9 family statuses. You can choose anyone, but some opportunities are realized only with the consent of the partner. The description and features of each status are given in the table.

All statuses that imply the presence of a partner allow this partner to be specified; his first and last name will be displayed on your page, but this action requires confirmation on his part. If there is no confirmation, VK will show only the marital status, without indicating the couple.

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