Important friends on VK are automatically identified for all users of the social network, regardless of their wishes. The order of the top five changes based on a special VKontakte algorithm, which account owners are able to influence.
The article will talk about what important friends are, how the order in which profiles are displayed is determined, and why users with whom you have not communicated for a long time jump to the top.
In the VKontakte mobile application, they are on the toolbar for quick access (scroll down, the first item after the menu).
When viewing a profile's full list of friends, you automatically see the top 5 first, and then the rest in alphabetical order.
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 date of registration on the social network.
Additional settings for the list of important friends are not required - they are not provided by the developers at this stage.
Nevertheless, VKontakte users can influence the list of important friends and the distribution of places in it. How to put a friend as important on VK - see the next block.
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.
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:
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?
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.
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).
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.
I think it is useful for many users to know on what basis is the list of VKontakte friends formed? in 2020.
Once upon a time, everything was very simple: whoever had a higher rating was at the very beginning of the list. But times have changed, the rating was canceled, and now friends sorting happens differently.
First of all, go to the “My Friends” section and deal with the list of friends on your page:
Who do we see first on our friends list? That's right, those with whom we communicate most.
The principle of sorting the list of friends: the first will be those friends with whom you most often correspond, but also those whose pages you constantly view, like, and comment on posts.
Thus, the first friend can be one with whom you may not have communicated at all, but always follow his page and (or) be active on it.
But there is a small nuance: users whom you recently added as friends are initially displayed above the rest (usually occupying 5-10 positions in the list). This is done so that you do not lose sight of them.
Now let's consider principle of sorting friends among other VKontakte users. If their list of friends is formed according to the principle described above, then we see friends completely differently.
We open the list of the user's friends and see the following:
You are the first in the list if this user is your friend. Next are the users who have friends with you: the more mutual friends you have, the higher they are in the list. Even lower are users sorted by date of registration in VKontakte: those who registered earlier are higher.
This is how the list of friends of other users is sorted.
If you wish, you can promote in the list a certain friend. To do this, it’s enough to communicate with him more often, visit his page, be active (like, repost, comment on posts/photos).
Thus, after a short period of time, the selected user will take first place in the list of your friends. You can do it the other way around.
If you open the list of your VKontakte friends for viewing, some will be higher in the list, others lower. What does this depend on? They get to the top positions important friends. In this instruction I will tell you how this list is formed.
Open VK and go to the "Friends" section.
There are two main criteria that influence which users rank at the top.
Everything is clear with the first option. The more often you communicate with a person, the more important he is considered within the contact.
The second option reminds you to chat with new friends (see). When you add a person, they are added to your Important Friends list for a period of time. But over time, if there is no activity, it will drop to the bottom of the list.
There is an assumption that it is formed in a random order. Although, when I tried to view my friend’s list of friends, it was unchanged, after several page updates (see).
Here, the list is formed in exactly the same way - by the number of messages (see), or the date the friend request was accepted. The only difference with the first option is that people who are currently on VKontakte are displayed.
Go to your VKontakte page through the application (see). Go to the "Friends" section. Here the list is called “Important”. The principle of its formation is the same as in the full version (see).
I don’t know if you are aware, but you have the opportunity, with the help of simple actions, to remove your friend from the top positions of the VKontakte friends list. All you have to do is, with a couple of clicks, lower your friend's priority in the news section, after which he will drop to the bottom of your friends list. Let's look at 3 ways in which this can be done.
The most well-known way to remove a friend from the top of your friends list is to promote other friends to the top. This is all done for a very long time and manually, because this requires visiting friends’ pages as often as possible, rating and commenting on their publications and communicating with them through personal messages. The more actions you take with certain users, the higher they become on your friends list.
This is how you can displace your enemy. Just be active on the pages of other friends on your list, and as for your enemy, forget about him. For the method to work, you must not maintain contact with this user, otherwise he may not only remain in the same place in your list, but also jump even higher!
In general, a little time spent, a little patience and a little caution - and you have reached your cherished goal!
You don't have to do everything manually. You all have a personal life and more important things to do, but to remove your friend from the top positions of the VKontakte friends list there is an even simpler function.
This time we will need an entry from our enemy in the news feed. Unfortunately, this method does not always work. If a person has not published new posts on his wall for a long time, this method will not help, so use the third method. But if your friend is actively posting new posts or has posted recently, you can scroll down the feed and easily find one of his posts. But to make his post easier to find, do the following:
When you have found your friend's post or have hidden all other news to find your friend's post, follow the instructions below:
This method is much simpler than the first two. However, in order not to rack your brains and save a lot of time, it is better to use this method right away! Here everything is done like this:
Due to the peculiarities of the social network VKontakte, the order of friends does not change immediately, but several hours after the manipulations have been performed. So after you have done the above steps, just be patient!
After some time, your friend will move down from the top of your friends list. It has been verified that a friend can be either in the middle of your list or at the very end. It all depends on the activity you show towards this person. For example, if you just added a new friend and he's in the top of your friends list, hiding his news will drop him to the very bottom of your friends list. And if a person was in the top because you often visit his page, send him messages and like his photos, after hiding the news he will be approximately in the middle of the list or slightly higher.
It is worth noting that the methods described above also work with communities. That is, by lowering the priority of your groups, meetings or public pages, you will move them to the bottom of your list of communities.
Instructions
Images from any photo album or news story can be viewed in full screen. To do this, just click on one of the pictures and press Alt+Enter. And if you check the box in the lower left corner, a slideshow of all the photos in the album will start.
Having trouble finding unread messages? This is easy to fix. Go to “My Messages”, select “Show as messages” and click on “unread”. This will display a list of all unread messages.
Can't find important news in the community or on a friend's wall? Use standard search. Click on the top border of the wall (where the number of entries is indicated) and in the new menu, click on “Go to search” in the upper right corner. The search is carried out by news and comments.
Some users re-upload old avatars to make them the main one. But you don't have to duplicate old photos. Just go to the “Photos from My Page” album and drag the photo to the very end. After this, the photo will automatically become the main one.
If you want to attach a photo or video from VKontakte to your news, you do not have to download them or add them to your albums. Just copy the link and paste it into the news, the desired content will be attached automatically. By the way, you can attach pictures from the Internet, just paste the link into the text field, but you won’t be able to attach a video from another resource (for example, YouTube).
You can group friends using private lists. Go to your friends list and at the bottom of the right menu, select “Create a list.” These listings will only be viewable by you. They are designed to fine-tune your friends' access rights to your personal content.
Users with more than 100 followers can view statistics of visits to their page. To do this, go to your profile and find the “Page Statistics” button in the lower left corner, under the albums.
Don't want to see a bunch of uninteresting content in your news? Go to “My News” and click on the “Show only interesting” button. Now you will only see the most important news, for example, new photos of friends, and news from most communities will no longer be shown.
By the way, you can also disable the display of reposts. To do this, go to “My News”, select “List of Sources”, switch to “Black List” and uncheck “Show copies in News”. Now you will stop seeing friends and communities.
