How are important friends determined in VK?
There is a difference between displaying your own list and the order in which others' friends are displayed when you log into someone else's account.
In the first case, important VK friends are determined using a special social network algorithm that calculates how much attention is paid to a specific page among friends. The frequency and intensity of communication, the number of rated or commented posts, reposts, and the frequency of profile visits are taken into account. In general, the main criterion is the user’s interest in the profile: the more attention is paid to it, the higher the person will be in the ranking. Recently added pages also appear here for the first time. As a rule, they push down profiles that previously occupied 3-4 positions. The VKontakte developers came up with this move so that you don’t forget about your new friend and communicate.
If you decide to look at friends of another VKontakte profile, the list will be compiled based on completely different considerations. You will be in first place. It will put the pages of mutual friends in the top in the order in which their profiles are displayed on you. If there are none, after your account the pages will appear seemingly randomly. In fact, they are sorted by the date of registration on the social network.
How to find out, watch, remove, how to make a friend an important VK?
Important VK friends
You already know or see who is on your list of important friends. You just need to open the “Friends” , and the friends that are important to you will be on the top lines. It’s simple, and it’s interesting to observe how, when actively communicating with a new friend, old important friends begin to lose their positions, and new ones, on the contrary, gain significance.
Ways to make a friend important
But sometimes you want to make a person an important VK. There is no such special function in VK. You just need to constantly look at this person’s page, communicate with him, like photos and videos, write comments. In general, this person must really be important to you. Here are ways to help raise a user in the list:
The first method is to resort to a trick :
- First, remove the person from your list of friends.
- After 5-7 days, add this user to your list again.
He will immediately appear in the first place in the “Friends” . But remember, if you don’t correspond with him, his position will immediately fall - the user will move from being important to the bottom lines.
The second method is long-term:
- You must log into your account every day, every hour, and then go to your friend’s page.
- It is important to do this through the “Friends” .
- Gradually, with the help of your persistence, your friend will rise to the top of the rating in the list of friends.
The third way is to be active on his page:
- Do everything the same as using the previous method, but you will have to work harder.
- Visit your friend's account through the "Friends" .
- Write comments under his posts, like his posts, send letters, write something cool on the wall and repost his posts.
Ways to remove people from important friends
Remove users from friends and immediately add them again
If you want to remove users from the position of important friends, then choose any of the available methods:
Removing a person from your friends list - but don’t worry, it’s only temporary:
- Go to the list of your VK friends.
- Remove the user you want to remove from the list of important ones.
- When you see the “Cancel” , click on it immediately. But only immediately, and not after a few days. If you wait a while and then add a friend as a friend, he will be identified by the system as a new friend and will immediately appear on the first line.
- Now press F5 (update) and you will see that this friend will go down to the 5th or 12th line, or maybe lower.
It is important to know: After such actions, not only will this comrade drop to the lower rows, but you will also disappear from his list of important ones. If this is not critical for you, then go ahead.
Decreased activity
As mentioned above, the list of important friends includes those people towards whom you show and behave actively: go to the page, like, repost, and so on. Accordingly, to demote a friend’s position, you need to do the following:
- Do not visit his account, do not like his posts, photos and videos. Do not write to him or respond to his messages.
- Be active with other friends. But it’s better not to spread yourself among many users, but to give preference to 2-3 friends. Then the position of the unwanted friend will fall.
But you will have to wait a little until the positions decrease - up to 7 days.
Hiding news
Hide user news
To reduce the importance of an unwanted friend, you need to hide his news. To do this, do the following:
- Go to your friend's profile.
- Click on the three dots , which is located under his photo.
- “Hide news…..(name)” in the drop-down menu .
If your friend often posts, then you can mark his publication as uninteresting in the news. The system will regard this manipulation as a reluctance to see this person on the list of important ones, and will lower his position. To do this, do the following:
- Go to "News" .
- Find this person's post.
- Click below this post “I’m not interested .
After a while you can return everything to its place. Your friend will appear in the news, but his position will not increase.
Display your friend's news
Important to know: If by default you do not display news from friends, but only from communities, then go to the news section and click on the “+” on the right side, as in the picture above, select “Friends” .
How to change important friends in VK
The principle of sorting important friends in VK takes into account how interesting the account is for you, depends on the frequency of visits, the activity of correspondence and the rating of photos and posts. It is logical that in order to make changes to the list, you need to improve or reduce the indicated indicators for a specific person.
How to add a person to important friends on VKontakte
We haven’t communicated with a close friend who lives in another city for a long time, and as a result, he ended up “overboard” from the list of important people in VK. There are two ways to raise a friend in the ranking.
The long-term method is to improve the indicators listed above:
- Communicate as often as possible.
- Fill him with likes and comments.
- Increase the number of visits to the desired account.
If you urgently need to add a profile to your list of important friends, there is a simple and quick life hack. In the article, we already said that recently added friends automatically take 3-4 positions in the rating, so why not take advantage of this?
- remove the desired page from friends, and after a couple of seconds add it again;
- remember who initiated the addition the first time. If you submitted the application, the other user will not even know about the manipulation (the standard notification will not be received).
Arrangement order
Let's start with a simple one: how are friends located on VKontakte and who is first? If you open the list, you will see that your first friends on VKontakte are those users with whom you communicate most often. Sometimes sorting VKontakte friends can be a little confusing - for example, among your important acquaintances there may be those with whom you have not corresponded for a long time. How so? It's very simple - the communications that influence how people are sorted include not only private messages, as one might think, but also comments on posts, replies, likes, etc. Thus, the first person on the list is not only the one with whom you have the longest correspondence, but also the one whose posts and news are most interesting to you. How to move friends to the top of the display list? Just communicate with them more often, that’s all!
However, there is an exception to this rule - users you added recently are automatically moved to the first 5 VKontakte friends so that you do not lose track of them if they end up at the end of the list. In the future, if you do not communicate with the newly added one too often, he will become one of the first 10 friends on VKontakte, and then the sequence will become standard.
Why did important friends in VK change?
The top 5 important friends are formed based on the principle of demonstrated interest: the more interesting a user is to you in terms of views, likes, correspondence and reposts, the more likely he is to be in first position. Why did important friends get lost on VK?
If you stop contacting one of the five for a while, the algorithm reacts by lowering his position.
The owner of an account with whom you hardly communicate can also become a leader if you actively evaluate his photos and posts. A recently added profile can also dilute an already established list. By default, he is among important friends for some time, but in the absence of communication, he goes downhill.
Who are important friends?
This is a certain category of your contacts with whom you interact most actively. The list is also replenished in the opposite way - if other profiles, for their part, regularly contact yours.
Activity means any means of interaction: likes, comments, reposts, watching videos, photos, listening to audio, and even simply visiting a page.
Answering how the list of important friends on VKontakte is formed, we should also note that people with whom you have recently become friends are included here.
This list is not designated in any way, it cannot be fixed, it is constantly changing. And also, the list is not mutual, that is, if a person is considered Important, this does not mean at all that you are in a similar position on his page.
If you are wondering where you can see the “Special” category of your friends, just open your contacts list. The profiles in the first positions are those same people. By the way, they are the ones that are displayed in the “Friends” block on your start page. Although the same cannot be said about the same list on someone else’s page. So seeing important friends in another person's profile is quite problematic.
How to hide important friends on VK
Contact makes no exceptions for important friends, so privacy settings apply to them as well. You can hide this category of people by digging into the Settings of any profile, regardless of the version you are using (meaning full or mobile).
- Log in to your personal account and go to the Settings section.
- Select Privacy Settings.
- Mark the desired user or even several in the “Who is visible in the list of friends and subscriptions” field.
- Check who can see those you choose to hide.
- Save your changes.
Innovations in the social network force us to learn more in order to be aware of new features. We hope our article helped with this.
And finally: knowledge of functional new VK products is great, but real life outside of social networks is much cooler. Don't forget to remind yourself of this from time to time.
