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:
- Hiding news. Among the rest, find the news of the friend you plan to hide, and click on the Hide source news link.
- 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.
- 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.
Temporary deletion
There are two ways to temporarily delete a VKontakte friend. First option:
- Go to your friends list.
- Find the profile you need.
- Click on the ellipsis button and select “Unfriend.”
- After this action, “Cancel” will appear. Click on it.
- Refresh the page.
As a result, the profile will lose its leading position at the point and go down. He could end up in 5th, 17th or 30th place. However, after such a procedure, not only the person will fall to the lower positions. The page owner will also lose a place in the other profile's ranking.
The second method is to use the VKontakte blacklist. This is a reliable method for lowering a friend's priority.
To do this, follow these steps:
- Open the main menu of the social network and go to the “Settings” section.
- The “Black List” item will appear on the right, click on it and perform the “Add to Black List” action.
- Paste a link to your friend's page into the text field.
- A “Block” icon will appear next to your account. Click on it.
A user cannot be unblocked for several hours. After the time has passed, you can add it to your contacts again by selecting “Remove from list.”
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.
Activity Suppression
The rating of friends depends on the user's activity.
The more a user visits other people's accounts, the higher they rise.
This is also affected by correspondence, likes and reposts.
To lower your profile position, you need to:
- Do not visit your friend’s page, do not like or contact for 1-2 weeks.
- Be active on other accounts. Visit their page several times a day, rate photos and posts on the wall, leave comments, repost. It is also recommended to communicate more in private messages.
The result will be noticeable after a few days. The main thing is to regularly perform these actions.
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.
Hiding news
If you don’t want to wait, but there is no way to delete or block a person, then hiding news will help you. The method is convenient and does not require much time:
- Go to the profile of the desired person. Under his photo, click on the button with three dots.
- Select “Hide news” from the list.
- To secure the result, find one of your friend’s posts in the feed.
- Click on the ellipsis icon and click on the “I’m not interested” option.
Combining these actions will certainly lead to a decrease in the friend’s list of friends, for example, from number one to number ten. Sometimes people's posts are disabled, to launch them you need to open the "News" section. On the right side of the screen, click on the plus sign, here you should select “Friends”. After this, posts from people from your friend list, and not from communities, will begin to appear in your feed.
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After these steps, just wait one day and then return your friend’s posts to your feed again. The position will not be upgraded. This method is practical, and most importantly, you should not add someone to the blacklist.
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.
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Who are important friends?
These are the users from your VK contact list with whom you communicate most actively. Moreover, “communication” means any interaction with a person’s profile: viewing photos, videos, music, likes, reposts, comments, dialogues, even simple transitions to a page.
Even if you are not interested in a person, their page can still get into your top. It is enough for the author to start showing interest in you - posting on the wall, liking, writing messages.
Newly added people as friends also fall into this category, but for a very short period of time. If the algorithm understands that the new person is not interesting to you, his page will quickly lose its position.
Important contacts are located at the top of the list and are also displayed in the “Friends” block on the VK user’s start page.
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.
Checking the result
Sometimes VKontakte crashes. Because of this, the proposed methods do not work. Check that the settings are correct.
This is done as follows:
- Refresh the page. Select the search bar at the top and check the result. Important friends are ranked from top to bottom in descending order of importance.
- Go to the "Friends" section. See which users are in the top positions.
- Make a fake page or ask for access to a friend's account. If you log in from a third-party profile, you will see your friends’ positions in the ranking.
You can easily clean up important friends on the VKontakte social network. Using any of the suggested methods, lower your buddies' ratings temporarily or permanently.
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If you open your friends list, at the top of it you will see the pages of the users with whom you communicate most often, whose pages you view, etc. It is on the basis of these factors that the list of important friends is formed (see).
It is also available to your guests (see). This way, anyone can find out who you prefer.
This doesn't suit everyone. Can anything be done? Yes, you can. Now I will show you how to remove important friends on VKontakte
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Second way
The second way to remove a person from your important friends on VKontakte solves the problem radically. To do this, you just need to remove it. If there is a need to save contacts, then add the person again. The user will not receive notifications about your actions, and he will not know anything, and will be left off your list.
Keep in mind that if you continue to be active with the user you want to remove from important, soon his rating will increase and he will again take his place in the list. And remember: although it is useful to know how to remove unwanted users from important VKontakte friends, the order of friends in reality is much more important than the order of friends on the social network.
Sometimes the social network VKontakte incorrectly arranges the order of friends on the profile page and because of this it becomes inconvenient to communicate with your friends. So that you can customize your list of important friends,
Let's look at how to raise a friend to the top of the VK list, what methods there are for this.
Removing possible friends
By default, the item in question cannot be deleted by the owner of the VK profile, either through settings or in any other way. In this regard, it is possible to get rid of the section only by using third-party extensions for modern browsers.
Note: The block with possible friends will be deleted only visually, regardless of the chosen method and only in the web browser where you added the extension.
Method 1: AdBlock
Initially, the AdBlock extension is designed to remove advertising banners on website pages by excluding the element code. This type of functionality can be expanded by creating special custom filters.
- Having previously installed the extension, open the “Friends” page.
On the browser toolbar, click the add-on icon and select “Block element”.
Using the highlighted site details selection form, mark the header of the “Possible Friends” block.
In the “Block element” window that opens, use the “Add” button.
If you are not satisfied with this approach, you can enter data about the window component directly into the filter list. To do this, follow these steps:
- Through the AdBlock menu, go to the “Settings” section.
Switch to the Personal Filters tab.
Click on the text field and enter the special code there.
To finish, click the “Add Filter” button.
By returning to the VKontakte website, you can verify the success of hiding possible friends.
If necessary, you can always replace the extension considered with AdGuard Anti-banner, which works according to a similar algorithm and requires the same actions.
How to remove from “Important Friends”
There is no single and simple way to remove a person from “Important”, because VKontakte does not provide such a function . The same applies to changing the list.
However, it is possible to do this indirectly. It is important to note that the effect of none of the life hacks will be immediate: for visible results you will have to wait from several hours to a day.
Methods for creating a poll and voting on VKontakte
Hide news
If you hide news from a user’s page, he will leave the “Important” top five in the next 24 hours. And it doesn’t matter how often a friend publishes posts.
There are two ways to hide news:
- find the nearest user post in the news feed and, hovering over the arrow on the side (looks like an unfinished triangle), select “ This is not interesting ”;
- go to a friend’s page and click on the three dots under his avatar, then click on the phrase “ Hide news... ”;
The action can be canceled immediately , but the result will be the same in any case: the unnecessary user will leave the list.
Temporarily block a friend
The most radical option for changing the position of “important friends”: add a person to the blacklist , and then remove him. To do this, you need, as in the previous paragraph, to find three dots on the user’s page and click on the “ Complain... ” button.
Next, you need to select one of the reasons and check the box next to “ Close access to my page .”
You can also follow the link and add the person to the blacklist directly. You can remove it from the emergency situation by clicking on the cross next to the name .
And the last way to add a friend to your ignore list: first remove him from friends , and then click “ Block... ”.
The main thing is that at this moment the user does not try to write a message or check the profile of the blocker, otherwise he will understand that he is in an emergency.
Stop communicating with a friend
The longest way is to reduce the activity of communication with the user, increasing with others. This means:
- do not comment on posts;
- do not like;
- write fewer messages;
- do not go to the page;
- do not view photos.
Then the algorithm will consider the user unimportant and remove him from the first five friends.
Remove friend
When removed from the contact list, the user is automatically removed from the “Important” list. If you add him as a friend again , he will be in 4th or 5th position, but with minimal communication he will quickly go down.
But the moment the friend’s deletion is cancelled, he will receive a notification: “ First Name Last Name has accepted your application ,” so this method is the least secretive.
How to remove the “Important Friends” tab in VK
In 2021, when visiting the site from a computer, the “Important Friends” block is not separately highlighted or displayed. The people with whom the account owner communicates most often are simply located in the first positions of the list. If you see a section and want to remove “Important Friends” in VK, you most likely need to work with the lists. Try:
- open the list of friends;
- in the blocks on the right, select “Lists”;
- find the one of the same name and click to go inside;
- an “Edit” button will appear at the top of the page, and a “Delete” button next to it;
- Click the desired one, confirm the action - and the list will disappear.
Please note that this method only works with lists that are created manually. It will not be possible to get rid of existing ones by default in this way.
Demoting an account's position through publications
How can I remove a friend from the top of my contacts list without going to their profile? Find his latest post in your feed and click the “I’m not interested” pop-up command through the familiar three blue dots.
This function will automatically move the position of a former important friend many lines down.
If you need to see the rest of your buddy's social media activities, don't worry. The fact that you called one publication uninteresting will not block access to other user posts.
In conclusion, it should be noted that all of the above methods do not work for long. If a person again begins to show interest in a specific page, regularly check in on it and simply appear, like, start dialogues, comment on photos, videos and new publications - the helpful VKontakte optimizer will again make the owner of this page important. Good luck communicating on VKontakte with important and not so important friends!
Important friends on VKontakte are detected automatically. When friends, family, and a loved one appear first on the list, it's convenient. But relationships may change for various reasons, and the need to constantly see a person’s page may no longer be necessary. In this article we will tell you how to remove from your important VKontakte friends those users whom you do not want to see at the top of the list.
How are important VK friends formed, determined, and on what do they depend?
A list of important VK friends has been formed.
As mentioned above, a list of the most important friends for each user is created based on the aspect to whom you show more interest. But VK there are two indicators that influence the fact which people get to the top of your friends list:
- Messaging activity.
- Recently added friends.
In the first point, the more often you correspond with a person, and he answers you, the more important he will be for you within this social network. In the second option, the site simply reminds you that you need to chat with a new friend.
Important friends of your friends
Does all this apply to other users' buddies? We can say with confidence that no. The list of friends of another person, if you visit his page from your account, will be formed based on information about mutual friends. If there are no mutual friends, then the list is created according to the date the page was created or without using any system - in a chaotic manner.
Friends in real time
Regarding the list of friends who are currently on VKontakte in real time, the sorting is performed in the same way as in the first case. the “importance” that plays a role . But do not forget that this “importance” is created precisely from the list of those people who are now “sitting” on VK.
In the “Friends” on the main page of your account, your friends are arranged in free order. You refresh the page, and the list in this window changes. Perhaps this is intentional so that you remember your old friends and decide to write to them.
Application on your phone
Important friends of VK in the mobile application
In the VK mobile application, everything is made more convenient. So, important friends are listed here in a list called “Important” . The rules for placing users in this list in the mobile application are the same as when creating a list on the portal if you access it from a PC.
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It's no secret that VKontakte automatically selects some friends and includes them in the important category. Important friends are the first friends on the list in VK, those people with whom the VKontakte user communicates most often and most often. And if adding to the list of important friends occurs automatically based on behavioral factors, then a sufficient number of users are interested in how to remove a friend from the list of important contacts?
That is why in this article we will look at how to remove a person from important VKs in 2021 from your phone and computer !
