We make an active link to the person's profile in VKontakte. How to promote a personal VKontakte profile

Consider answers to frequently asked questions for managing a Vkontakte profile. If you did not find the answer to your question, you can write it in the comments and we will help you in the near future.

Answers on questions

Question: How to change personal data (, year of birth, etc.)?

Answer: To do this, under your avatar (main photo), click "Edit Page" and your personal details will be revealed.

Question: How to change (hide the wall from users, prohibit invites to groups, prohibit comments on posts, etc.)?

Answer: In the "Settings" section there is a "Privacy" tab, here you can change the settings to your taste.

Question: Is it possible to go to the social network invisible?

Answer: You can. To do this, you need to download a browser plugin. More in the article.

Question: How to be always online?

Answer: To use this mode, you need to install a special browser plug-in. More in the article.

Question: How to change the address (id) of the page?

Answer: If you want to give a unique address to your account, in the "Settings" section, in the "General" tab, at the bottom of the page, you can change the old ID to any unique phrase. For example, it was id199358937, and it became sasha85. More in the article.

Question: How to change the page theme?

Question: Can I see how users see my page?

Question: How to see the guests who visited my page?

Question: How to specify a group (community) in the place of work?

Answer: Click on the avatar "Edit Page" and go to the item "Career". Indicate in " " the name of the desired group in which you are a member.

Question: Do I need to pay Vkontakte for something?

Answer: No money to pay for using the social network no need. In the system, you can only buy votes for which you can buy gifts, buy or use for applications. But to register, log in or unfreeze an account, pay by sending a message, no need. In this case, you have .

Question: Is it possible to sit on one computer with two accounts at the same time?

Of course, this guide is written for a certain circle of readers.

• freelancer offering his services via the Internet;
• information businessman selling his products on the Internet;
• trainer or teacher teaching online;
• coach (psychologist, astrologer, esotericist), consulting via Skype;
• MLM business representative;
• owner of an online store;
• makeup artist (stylist, manicurist, hairdresser) who promotes his services through social networks, then this book will definitely be useful to you.

It should also be borne in mind that large recruitment agencies sometimes ask job seekers to provide a link to their social media profile. These are the realities of our time.

This guide covers all aspects of building a personal brand through a social media profile. The profile settings are considered in detail, the possibilities of their use to achieve their goals. Separately, various non-trivial tricks are made, many of which you did not even suspect.

For greater usefulness and clarity, the book contains a lot of examples. Both successful and not so successful. You can recognize yourself in them. Read, draw conclusions and act!

First, let's define the terminology. The fact is that the term "personal profile" is not used by everyone.

What it is? Your personal VKontakte page. An account that is created when registering on a social network and contains all the information about you that you see fit to provide. Your personal VKontakte space where you can write your messages. It's all about one thing. About what we will call a personal profile.

Many, when registering on VKontakte, do not even think that this automatically created account with your first and last name (if you indicated them) and with your photo (if you, again, inserted it) can be used to the benefit of yourself and your wallet. And this is not only possible, but must be done. This is what we are going to talk about.

We have already listed those to whom the promotion of a personal profile can bring “irreparable benefits”. These are people whose income is built entirely on personal expertise. These are the people for whom it is important to be perceived as a professional, since their profit depends on this.

If you think that you are already an "expert of all times and peoples" and there is always a queue for you, and social networks are fun for schoolchildren, then let's look at a few important facts.

Social networks are well indexed by search engines. Try to find any person through Yandex or Google. What is the first thing for you Fact first. will a search engine give out? These will be links to accounts in social networks: VKontakte, facebook, youtube.

Let's develop this idea. Where will the person who heard about you for the first time look for you? He will go to the same Yandex or Google. And where will he find you? Most likely on social networks, if you are there, since this information will be given out in the first place. Are you there?

On the other hand, why not use this fact to your advantage? Customize your personal profile and you will get an additional source of clients and admirers.

More and more people of all ages use social networks. Thousands of people start their day by watching the VKontakte news feed. What kind of news first gets into the news feed? This is news from the personal profiles of friends. We draw conclusions. If you have many friends on VKontakte, and you regularly report some important information, then a fairly large number of people see it.

An active personal profile increases sales. There is a simple mechanism at work here. If you are interesting to others, if people believe you, then your suggestions are perceived as a recommendation for action. Of course, such an effect is not achieved in one month, but without your efforts this will never happen.

Let's see what key factors make your profile a tool for promoting a personal brand.

The key factors influencing the formation of a personal brand are marked in red. Green color indicates desirable factors that enhance favorable perception.

Now let's take a closer look at each factor separately.

1. Name and surname.

This, at first glance, a simple rule, is not so rarely violated, which leads to such incidental moments:
It is quite simple to explain the reason why the user's personal page has various extraneous names. People want to promote their services, products, their businesses and organizations. For this purpose, they use a personal profile. However, they do not take into account the fact that a violation of the rules allows the VKontakte administration to close such an account without explaining the reasons. Although the reasons will, of course, be explained to you. But will it help you to return what has been accumulated for a long time? Especially if sales have already been made through such a personal profile.

Another reason why it is better to follow the rules is as follows. Social media can help you promote your products and services a lot more if you're trusted. First of all, people are interested in you, and only then everything that you are ready to offer them.

And if you already initially hid behind a strange set of words? If you use the company name as your name? Of course, in this case, someone will add you as a friend. But who will it be? Poor people who don't care.

If your organization is solid enough, then breaking the rules is completely unacceptable for you, since this somehow affects the reputation.

A few words should be said about the diminutive forms of the name and the spelling of the name and surname in foreign languages. Such options are also not welcomed by the social network VKontakte.

However, here it is necessary to proceed from considerations of expediency. If people know you as Natasha or Alena, then it is logical to use the same form of your name on social networks.

But if you are going to offer your services to the Russian-speaking part of the population, which for the most part lives on VKontakte, then you definitely should not use Latin spellings of letters.

We recognize that it takes a certain amount of courage to promote your personality on social media. It is much easier to be an ordinary user or hide behind some vague nickname. But it is precisely this courage that is valued by those who are ready to follow you. So have the courage to express yourself!
who to be friends with

Formation of communities in social networks

Example 1 Violation of the rules for using the profile on the social network VKontakte. Is the game worth the candle? Everyone decides for himself.

Example 2 Name extensions are only visible if the person visits your profile. Perhaps it adds some shades of meaning. But such emotional inserts clearly interfere with promotion.

Example 3 Specific insert on the topic of promotion. We emphasize once again that additions to the first or last name are visible only in your profile. When you are seen in the list of friends or you receive a request to add
to friends, there will be only a first and last name. In my opinion, it is more expedient to transfer this record to the place of work. Then the inscription will be visible even in the cases described above. Or add it to the status.

Example 4 Sometimes additional names can enhance the perception of your image. In this case, they can be considered as an element of promotion.

2. Status.

Status is important information that you want to communicate about yourself or your activities.

The status is located right below the first and last name. Someone leaves this field blank, but for a person involved in pumping his brand or promoting some services, this is an unaffordable luxury.

At first glance, making a suitable inscription in the status of a personal profile is not so difficult. However, there are so many errors here that we will dwell on this issue in more detail.

What should be in the status? Information about what you are ready to offer people, what is important that you want to convey to them. There is no place for general phrases and ill-conceived statements. Specifics and only specifics!

Obviously, this information should be attractive to you, identify the specifics of your activities, convey particularly relevant information.

Imagine that a third-party visitor looked for some reason on your personal page. Perhaps he was looking for some information. The status should give him this information, or supplement other messages in your profile.

Let's look at specific examples that will clear things up for you.

Example 5 The author of this status clearly wanted to tell us something. Even more, he definitely wanted to call us to some kind of action. But to what? Something about gifts? What result is provided? What does Russia have to do with it? The link to the site in the status is never clickable, which means that you will have to copy it to the browser yourself. This can only happen if you know exactly why you need it. Would you like to see what is on this site? Conclusion: there are many letters, but little meaning. More specifics obviously wouldn't hurt.

Example 6 Anna definitely has something to offer us. This is indicated by the inscription on the avatar. But what can we order? Pick up your protector? I leave the answers to what I mean to you. The other information on the page doesn't help much. Is it worth the effort?

Example 7 Clear and to the point. The entire profile tells us what is important to Veronica and what she can offer you. The status brings complete specifics.

3. Personal information

Personal information is divided into two groups: public information and detailed information. The first is visible to all, without exception, people who have logged into your profile. Even those you have blacklisted. This information is displayed immediately below the status. It can only be hidden in the appropriate settings. The second group is hidden under the line "Show detailed information". People on your blacklist cannot see it at all, and everyone else can see it only by expanding the corresponding list.

What information will be displayed to the public - we will consider this in detail in the technical section of this book. It is also worth mentioning here that what you present about yourself can increase your rating in the eyes of potential customers, make it easier for them to find your products and increase your credibility. Or maybe vice versa.

What information should be avoided? There are no clear recommendations here. The same information may be perceived differently in different profiles. For example, age. In some cases, it can be a plus, and in others a minus. A fifty-year-old coach is weighty. But a novice fifty-year-old copywriter looking for clients through a social network has less chance. Perhaps, in the second case, it is worth keeping silent about the age.

What to report about yourself?

The most important criterion here is that the information should help you achieve your goals, characterize you as a professional in the field in which you are engaged.

It is quite obvious that filling in the "Political views" field is considered mandatory for a politician. But for everyone else? Sometimes it can be harmful.

Let's look at a few items from the personal information section, which must be filled out thoughtfully. Of course, if your goal is to use social networks as an additional source of getting customers and orders.

Family status. Definitely do not choose any explanatory values, like "Everything is complicated." You should especially carefully approach the completion of this paragraph if you are dealing with the topic of relationships.

Listing all brothers, sisters, including second cousins, is also most often not worth it.

No need to fill in the items from the "Interests" section with kilometer lists. Of course, your favorite movies and quotes can perfectly describe you. But writing hundreds of thousands of letters in these columns is definitely unnecessary.

Section "Career". Of course, the stages of our career have led us to the point where we are now. But sometimes listing places of work and positions held there may not play in our favor. For example, if you worked as a taxi driver, and now you have retrained as a copywriter, then perhaps this fact should not be recorded in your personal profile.

Separately, let's say about the column "Children". Now you will not surprise anyone with the fact that a mother with babies is actively working through the Internet. But if you offer call-to-call services, having young children may put off a potential employer.

Example 8 Look in the column "Hometown". A similar option, when in this column they write all the cities in which they have ever been, or those that have made an indelible impression, is not as rare as it might seem. As a result, with such a list you divert attention from information that is really worthy of attention. Remember, the fewer letters you write, the more likely they are to be read. And they will take note.

Example 9 Those who fill in personal information with key queries on the topic they are promoting probably think that such actions will lead to streams of customers from search engines in their profile. Alas and ah, nothing like that will happen. In addition, potential buyers are more likely to scare away.

Example 10 After reading such personal information, one can quite imagine the living person who wrote it. In addition, it is clear how this person can be useful to me, who accidentally looked into his profile.

4. Avatar.

An avatar is a special picture or photograph on a user's personal page, which is a public graphic representation of that person. In social networks, it is customary to use the photo of the profile owner as an avatar.

Of course, there are people who believe that this element of a personal account is not important. Surely, you have seen such personal pages, the owners of which did not consider it necessary to insert at least some photo in the appropriate place, looking like this:

What avatar to choose for a personal profile? In our opinion, preference should be given to the profile owner's photo. It is desirable that the face of a person is visible on it, it is very desirable, close-up. Note that the face is desirable, but there are exceptions, which we will consider below in the examples.

As for the photo itself, chosen for the avatar, the recommendations here can only be general. The fact is that a person's perception of himself is always different from the perception of this person by others. What may seem beautiful to some people may seem aggressive to others, boring to others. But anyway, the recommendations are still there.

Firstly, the photo used for the avatar should characterize you as a professional. If you, for example, are a stylist, then a photo from a vacation, where you are captured with a peeling nose and wet hair tucked under the headband, can greatly spoil the impression of you. But exactly the same photo is quite suitable for a person leading trainings about travel.

Please note that we are talking exclusively about the avatar. In your albums and on your profile wall, you can post anything you see fit. Although we will talk more about this in the corresponding section.

Second, choose the photo that represents your profile responsibly. Take the best one possible. After all, it will now be your virtual face.

Thirdly, choose the right area for the thumbnail. Your news in the news feed will not be accompanied by your full size avatar, but only by its square area. It is very important that the thumbnail shows your face.

Fourth, don't change your avatar too often. People get used to the familiar images in their news feed and follow the news from interesting people.

Example 11. What's wrong with this profile? On closer inspection, this is the profile of an HR director in a large company and a professional coach developing some kind of business there. But what impression does the cat on the avatar make? Do you want to chat with this character on the topic of how
become more successful and richer?

Example 12. Apparently, the owner of this profile cares about proper nutrition.

Or maybe she just really likes peaches. It’s also possible that she didn’t care what photo to put on the avatar, as long as there was something.

Example 13 A very common use of avatars among adherents of any activity. And they can be understood. However, people still want to communicate with people. They are primarily interested in you, not your work. Your activities may interest them later, but show them your face first. This will give you a lot more confidence.

Example 14 Profile of a "laserman", a person who puts on spectacular shows. Of course, the face is not visible here, but it is clear what this person is doing.

As we wrote above, sometimes there are exceptions to the rules - and this is exactly the case. Here, in order to promote, it is more important to show a holistic image, an idea, rather than a real face. It is clear that no one will condemn the guy if he decides to publish his photo on the avatar.

Example 15 The inscription on the avatar in handwritten font… It doesn’t look very good, it’s difficult to read, and it also spoils the thumbnail representing the profile in the news feed.

Example 16 Thoughtful use of the avatar. True, it is not possible to click on the link pointed to by the arrow. She is not clickable. But much better than in example 15.

Example 17. An avatar made specifically for the event. At the same time, there is also the face of the owner. It is only important to replace such an avatar with a normal one when the event passes.

Example 18. Cool car! But where is Ruslan?

Example 19. You look at this 4 avatar and immediately understand that Marina is a yoga instructor and is related to children. Fine!

The writing on the wall. Content.

It would seem that we have already considered all the main points. Avatar, status, and personal information may well create a favorable impression of you. But the fact is that the blank wall of your profile will say more about you than all the beautiful phrases in the status. And this statement will not be in your favor.

Even if you fill the wall of your personal VKontakte page exclusively with reposts from other people's publics, you still characterize yourself with this. The fact is that a person cannot share information that he does not approve of. One way or another, by quoting other people's thoughts, you show what you think yourself.

Reposts are definitely better than an empty wall. But they should not be abused. Write something about yourself. Share what happened to you and your clients (students, partners). Express your thoughts. Tell us about your professional plans. If you are an expert in any field, believe me, this topic always has something to say to people. Act as an expert, share tips and cases. Very soon you will have regular readers and admirers. And they, in turn, will bring new people interested in your topic.

Reposts are usually abused by those who lead their own (or other people's) VKontakte communities. Sometimes the personal profiles of such people are an exact copy of the communities that are administered by this specialist. Doing this is definitely not worth it. Why do people join your community if everything can be viewed from you? In addition, too frequent updating of information in the profile leads to the fact that people simply unsubscribe from such news. After all, news from the user's personal page is more likely to get into the feed of his friends than group news. And if these news are monotonous and come from the same person very often, then it is easier to exclude such posts from your news feed. It should be borne in mind that such reposts also do not bring benefits to your group. After all, only you do them, and this is clearly not enough to work with activity. To sum it up: choose what is important from your communities and share only that. Better not more than 2-3 times a week. Less likely.

If our wall is not closed to other people's messages, then sometimes there may be something there that should not be there at all. Requests from apps used by your friends; gratitude for friendship with a link to your page; requests for help; and sometimes outright SPAM. Please clean your wall of such statements. Leave only what can benefit you: thanks for your work, questions about your activities, reviews about your services, etc.

We especially note the cases of user participation in conferences where VKontakte comments are used for communication. Often, an unsuspecting conference participant writes answers to questions that the speaker asks, and at this time his profile turns into something like this:

If this happens, then such posts should be deleted from your personal VKontakte page.

To ensure that they never appear on your profile at all, you just need to disable broadcasting them to your account. Before you write something at a conference where the VKontakte comments plugin is used, click on the small blue button with the letter "B". This button is located next to the "Submit" button (see the figure below). After the button is pressed, it will become more pale. This will let you know that the transfer of your messages to your personal profile is disabled. Now you can safely comment as much as you want. All messages will remain only where you write them.

Example 20. The trend of our time is participation in various flash mobs that require reporting in a personal social network profile.

Of course, this is a good move for the organizers - this is how they increase the virality and attract new participants to their projects. And how can this be useful for the participants themselves?

Of course, if you complete all the tasks and really benefit from this flash mob, then honor and praise be to you. However, such examples only cause bewilderment, especially when the word "nothing" appears on your wall for the twentieth day in a row.

Friends. Their number.

In this age of information overload, when you have to fight for the attention of visitors in all possible ways, everything can be important. Any detail that adds value to your image should be taken into account.

Most people who go to someone else's profile for any reason pay attention to the number of friends of this person. We note here several important points.

If you have very few friends and subscribers, this is alarming. We repeat that our book is written for those who promote their products or services via the Internet, for those who are interested in an additional audience. How can such a person have 4 friends and 1 subscriber?

Of course, it’s not worth chasing quantity, we’ll talk about this later, considering the next paragraph. But this factor should not be neglected either.

There is also such a picture: a person has few friends, but there are a lot of subscribers. This may serve as a signal that such a person rarely visits VKontakte or does not pay due attention to those who send friend requests to him. Someone will unsubscribe over time, someone will lose interest. This is a natural result. People now want attention. So it must be given to them.

Another mistake is not keeping track of your friends list. Added a person as a friend a year ago and forgot about him. But over time, people can delete their VKontakte profiles, their profiles can be deleted by the social network itself. Meanwhile, they “hang” in your lists, spoiling your profile picture. For example, like this:
In VKontakte, you can divide all friends into categories. It’s not worth it to go into great detail here, but the “Colleagues” section can be created. Of course, here the performance of profiles must be monitored especially carefully. It will also be good if you collect in this section eminent people in your topic, whose presence in your personal profile will add weight to you.

If, for some reason, you do not want a person to be seen among your friends, but at the same time you do not want to refuse friendship to him, then you can put him in the “Hidden Friends” category. How this is done, we will consider in detail in the chapter of this book devoted to technical issues and "chips".

Activity on the profile wall.

Well, friends, we got to the last important factor that should be present in your personal profile. And that is activity. The fact that this factor is considered last should not give you the illusion that it is of the least importance.

Have you ever seen the personal pages of users who have 5 thousand friends or more, and there is not a single like under their posts? Don't you think this is strange?

Have you ever seen personal profiles in which their owner offered (optional):

— collect thousands of likes on VKontakte;
- "promote" your VKontakte group;
— to ensure the flow of customers and customers through social networks;
- teach you how to build a personal brand;
help you earn your first million.

And at the same time, in his profile on the wall there is a hopeless silence.

And actually, what thoughts it can cause? Most likely, none of these posts are of interest to anyone. That this person has no followers. That he is doing something wrong and is unlikely to be able to help you.

And here's what we want to convey to you: activity is very important. In your personal profile, the wind should not walk, people should “live” there - comment, put a “like” mark and even repost. After all, viral marketing is not something that you have registered on VKontakte. This is when you posted a photo of a necklace that you yourself made and sell, and n-th number of your friends shared it on their profiles. Just because they liked it. As a result, you receive orders for your products.

We have to admit that in order for there to be activity in the profile, this profile needs to be dealt with. We already wrote about this in the section “Profile wall. Content". If your profile has statistics (and not everyone has it), then pay attention to its indicators. What messages do you resonate with your audience? What do people comment on, where do they put likes?

In the above screenshot from the personal profile statistics, the crosses mark the release dates of the posts. You can see that the publication of information on a personal page leads to a surge in activity. Of course, this will only happen if the posts resonate with your friends and you don't post them every 5 minutes.

What posts you publish, how to communicate with your audience, how to position yourself - of course, it's up to you. Also, you yourself determine whether you close the wall from extraneous messages. Most often, this is the only way to get rid of the endless stream of SPAM. But is it worth it to close the comments? If you are a public person, or aspire to become one, if you have something to offer people, find the courage to enter into a dialogue with people. Yes, sometimes you will receive not quite vanilla feedback. But if it is constructive criticism, it can become a point of your growth. In addition, people value openness very much. But, again, it's up to you to decide.

Example 21. The published content is different and is intended to be read. What do you want to read on the social network? Probably something interesting and not very complicated. Attention, the question is: how long will you follow the news coming from Tatyana? Note that Tatyana stubbornly publishes one piece of news a day. How many adherents she found through the social network VKontakte. Hardly a lot.

Here I would like to say that labels with your name may appear not at all where you would like. Pay attention to this and remove all unwanted marks in a timely manner. Or, in the settings, set the option so that only you can see photos with tags.

One more section, which we will note, is not important. On our diagram, it is marked with the number 9. But one way or another, because of its graphic component, it attracts the attention of visitors. This is the gifts section. If you are popular and enjoy the attention of VKontakte users, then most likely you have a lot of gifts. This is great and means you don't have to do anything. If you have little or no gifts at all, we strongly advise you to disable this option in the settings.

We have considered with you the factors that can be seen by going to the profile of any VKontakte user. Now let's talk about what remains beyond the visible, but also affects perception and promotion.

We have identified two additional factors that can also be taken into account.

The first one is the photo feed. It is located immediately below the main information. On our diagram (p. 5), it is marked with the number 8. The photo feed is formed from all the images that you upload to your profile albums or post on the wall. But it can be edited separately, according to your goals and objectives. We have already said that the photos that you choose to publish on your personal page are your own business. But sometimes it would be great to stop and look at your feed of photos and think: what do these images say about me? The example at the bottom of this page is taken from the infobusinessman's personal profile. We leave it without comment. It will be great if you can draw the right conclusions on your own.

The section of photos in which you have been tagged by other VKontakte users does not always remain noticed.

What else is worth considering

Please open the list of your VKontakte friends and study it carefully. You may notice that some of them have only first and last names, others have their place of study next to them. At the third the type of their activity is written. Obviously, such additional information allows you to learn more about a person, and sometimes draws additional attention to his personal profile.

In order for you to have such information, you need to fill in the Place of work field in the Career section. This is more preferable than displaying information about the educational institution that you graduated from. Write here what you want to broadcast about yourself to other people. For example, you work at Horns and Hooves LLC as a pencil sharpening manager, but at the same time you have additional income on the Internet by creating articles for websites. For your promotion, the mention of LLC is not required at all. Indicate only the second type of your activity and, with due perseverance and proper positioning, one day it will become your main one.

And in general, if some information moves you away from your goals, do not indicate it. No one has the right to require you to indicate your age, city of your residence or weekly photo reports about your life. The opposite is also true, if some information is important for your positioning, you need to indicate it.

All personal profiles in social networks are open for free access to any user. Those. you can visit anyone you want. To do this, you need to click on the user's avatar or his first and last name. However, the so-called privacy settings will allow you to see in someone else's profile only what is allowed by your rights. For example, if a user has marked some materials as "available only to friends", and you are not a friend of this person in this social network, then you will not see these materials.

Be very careful with your privacy settings. If you plan to advance on the Internet and build your business here or expand your audience and client base, then, definitely, the basic information of your personal page should be open to everyone. An exception can only be people from your blacklist. But that's another story, which we'll cover in another section of this guide. For now, let's sum it up...

Examples can be continued, but we will not drag out. Who do we see on these personal pages? We see experts here. Even if we have doubts about their professionalism, all the content of their profiles can easily dispel them. Is your VKontakte account capable of this?
We may never meet a person, but still buy some product or service from him. The Internet now makes it easy to do this, although the usual fears have not gone away. People are also worried about their money and are not ready to transfer it to anyone. In this case, the personal VKontakte profile, which is regularly maintained and contains detailed information, acts as a certain point of trust for the seller. This is your virtual face, your business card, that “first impression” that can only be made once.

Let's look at one more example to finalize this topic and see how your personal VKontakte page can play against you.

Example 22. What does Alexander's profile tell us? Well, at first glance it is clear that he has something to do with the Wellness Club. True, it is not immediately clear in which city this club is located. The address in the status and the phone number do not clarify this. The line "Hometown" only confuses this question. Lots of personal information
heavily overlapping information on the case.

How to fix: remove languages, education and all siblings. Change an avatar that shows how slim and athletic you are. Add a place of work and specify the status - not just an address, but what exactly I, as a potential client of yours, will get there.

When registering on any resource, including the social network Vkontakte, your account is automatically created. It is also called a personal page or personal profile.

The personal profile displays all the user's personal data, his interests, contacts, hobbies, as well as published posts and comments.

We especially note that only your first and last name is used for registration in social networks. The use of the company name, nicknames, random words is prohibited by the rules of any social network. Such a profile can be deleted without giving reasons, especially if complaints are received against it.

To register on Vkontakte and get your personal profile, you will need a cell phone number. This is the only difficulty, although the procedure itself is incredibly simple.

Step 1. Enter your first and last name.

Step 2. We write a phone number.

After that, you will receive a code to the specified number, which you use to complete the registration.

As you understand, on Vkontakte, the ability to create several personal profiles at the same time is limited by the availability of phone numbers that you can specify.

If, when creating a profile, you indicate a phone number that is already linked to some account, then Vkontakte will give you a warning about this fact.

You can ignore the warning that this number is in use and continue to register an account on the same phone number. To do this, select the "Click here" option.

Here the warning will be quite categorical. If you ignore it and link a new profile to an already used number, then the old account will lose this link.

This will not delete the old profile. But if you decide to use it for work, then very soon you will not be able to do it. VKontakte will require you to link a new number to this profile.

Before we move on to describing the personal profile settings, let's talk about the language of its display.

In order to select a language, we need to scroll through any VKontakte page to the very bottom. If your wall is already heavily filled, it will be easier to do this from some section that you do not use very often. For example, it could be "My audios" or "My videos".

At the very bottom, we can find several functions, including the name of the language in which you see the VKontakte interface.

You can easily make sure that the name of the language is a clickable link. Clicking on it will open the following menu:

Here you can find two options left over from the April Fools of yesteryear. These are Soviet and pre-revolutionary languages.

By choosing one of these languages, you can provide yourself with a fun pastime for more than one evening, because. the usual type of social network will change quite noticeably. Here is how the familiar warning that your friend's profile is frozen is displayed in pre-revolutionary language:

If you need some other language, but you didn’t find it, pay attention to the inscription “Other languages”, you will definitely find what you need there.

Example 23. If you set the "pre-revolutionary" language in your settings, then other people's profiles will be displayed that way. Of course, only you will see it.

Example 24. Sometimes on April 1, VKontakte employees play pranks. Be prepared for this. Thanks for an interesting example to our student Vera Veremeychuk.

You can manage your personal profile using the numerous settings that are in it. Let's start their consideration with the menu block, which is always located MY SETTINGS at the top left. At the same time, the items that are present in this menu depend again on the settings.

Let's figure it out.

The top figure shows the location of the menu block. There is a line "My Settings". We click on it. Before us opens a section with many tabs. By default, the General tab is active, which begins with a list of Additional Services. The checkboxes in this list will correspond to those items that will be in our menu. If you have not edited this list, your menu will be as complete as possible.

Please note that this list does not prevent other users from seeing some sections of your file problock menu. This list only customizes the appearance of the menu block for you. Those. exists for your convenience.

What each of these sections means (“My Friends”, “My Photos”, etc.) and what options they have, we will consider in more detail in other chapters. Now we are talking only about the last menu item - "My settings".

Let's see what else we can configure in the General tab.

Immediately after setting up additional services, there is a “Page Settings” block.

Here you can hide the gifts block from your profile by checking the corresponding checkbox. It will hide from the eyes of your visitors. As we already wrote, if you have few or no gifts at all, this can be a completely justified action.

The second line - Show only my posts - will hide from prying eyes everything that other users write on your wall. Those. At the same time, the wall will not be closed, anyone can write on it (except those who are on your black list), but only you can see these entries.

Should extraneous entries be hidden? Perhaps only for the time when you can't follow your profile. For example, you are going on vacation. In other cases, daily moderation is more suitable, ie. tracking unwanted entries and their timely removal.

We already talked about disabling commenting on posts in the first part of this book. We do not recommend doing this. But, in any case, you have this opportunity and it is located in this block of My Settings.

In the "General" tab of My Settings, you can also change the password for logging into your profile; change the phone number and e-mail associated with your profile. This is where your profile address changes. By default, any profile address on the VKontakte social network consists of numbers, but you can notice this address on any other. For example, the profile address of Natalya Koynova looks like this:

In the “General” tab we are analyzing, you can change the appearance of the display of the social network VKontakte by making the display font larger. And here the LANGUAGE changes, which we already wrote about in one of the previous chapters.

The next tab in the settings section is the Security tab.

Here you can configure the ability to enter the VKontakte social network only using a special code received on your phone. Please note that this is not always convenient and efficient. However, if you, for example, work with other people's communities or other people's profiles, then such an opportunity can greatly protect you and your customers from hacking and unwanted actions in your communities.

Also in this tab you can see when your profile was logged in and from which browsers.

The next tab in the Settings section is "Privacy". Everything that will be visible and available to visitors to your account is configured here.

Now we will show you what the settings for this tab might look like for a person who is active on the Internet, and then we will give some explanations.

So, you see that any user of the social network VKontakte has the opportunity to limit the visibility of individual sections and stop extraneous activity in his profile. What should be limited?

If you want to actively develop your personal profile and make it one of the effective tools for promoting something (your person, goods, services, affiliate programs, etc.), then you should hide only those sections that do not bring you closer to yours. goals. For example, you can hide the section of audio recordings if you do not have them or if their presence does not affect the promotion of your activity in any way. It is your right to forbid other people to write on your wall, but you should remember that in this case people will not be able to leave a review on your wall, wish you a happy birthday, ask a question. It's good if you leave them the opportunity to do this at least in the comments to your posts. And be sure to leave your private messages open to everyone!

Now let's deal with the line "Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions" separately. Here you can hide some of your friends from prying eyes. Perhaps, the increased secrecy will seem superfluous to someone, so this function is rarely used. But for those who want to separate the personal from the work, this feature can be useful.

You can hide friends from prying eyes as follows. By default, opposite this line you have a clickable phrase "All friends". Click on this phrase. We have a special window where a list of all our friends is given. By clicking on a friend's name, you will add him to the list of hidden friends. In order not to scroll through the entire list, you can use the search located at the top of the window. After you have chosen who you want to hide from your profile visitors, do not forget to click the "Save" button.

If you hid some of your friends (which did not stop them from being your VKontakte friends), you should deal with the next line - Who sees my hidden friends. By default, it says "Only me". Perhaps you should make it so that hidden friends can see each other. Although this is not required.

There are a lot of drop-down lists in the "Privacy" tab. Some of them have the “Everything except…” option. Let’s talk about this option separately, because some difficulties may arise when working with it.

If you want to select the restriction “Everything except ...” in some paragraphs, as is done in our example from page 36 in the paragraph “Who can invite me to communities”, then you will see a small dialog box:

To add some friends to the limiting list, you can use the drop-down list. But if you have more than a thousand friends, then doing this is very inconvenient. Therefore, you can simply start typing the name of the friend you want to restrict in some rights. And here ATTENTION, the name and surname must be printed in the dative case, otherwise no matches will be found. True, if there are not very many friends, then by the initial letters you can find the one you are looking for and then our advice will not be relevant for you.

In the next tab of Settings, which is called "Alerts", we recommend that you enable only Instant Alerts on the site. These are tooltips about all the activities of other users related to your profile. It is better to turn off the rest of the notifications, because. with active activity on VKontakte, this can simply drive you crazy.

The fifth tab "Black List" contains all those people (more precisely, their profiles) whom you have deprived of the opportunity to interact with your profile. In other words - "banned". Here you can add new people with whom you do not want to communicate, as well as remove from this list those who were added to it earlier, if the situation has somehow changed. The blacklist will be discussed in more detail in the next chapter of this guide.

The Mobile Services tab is intended for those who want to access the VKontakte website from mobile devices. Here you can see all the conditions and tariffs offered for this.

Well, the last tab in Settings is Payments. It is needed to buy votes - the internal currency of VKontakte, necessary, for example, to buy gifts or to pay for additional features within applications. Here you can see what transactions you have made and how many votes you currently have in your account.

We remind you that we considered the section of the menu block "My Settings" with all the tabs available here. It will be very cool if you study all the sections on your own, evaluating the usefulness of each item for yourself and trying on various options for your goals. Here we have given general recommendations, which, we hope, will be taken into account by you and will allow you to use your personal profile with maximum convenience and benefit.

I would like to note that the settings change periodically - something is added, something is modernized, and something is removed. Therefore, if you find any inconsistencies between the real settings interface and the description or screenshots of this publication, please let us know. We will be very grateful to you.

A user who has been blacklisted on a social network will no longer be able to see publications on your profile wall, tag you in photos, invite you to events or groups, and correspond with you. Also, he will never be able to add you as a friend.

Here is the view you will see when you go to the profile of the person who added you to the blacklist:

Vkontakte can block a user without any warning at your first request. But there is one limitation: you cannot blacklist your friend. First you need to remove the person from friends.

Blocking is easy. You need to go to the profile of the offender, who is not your friend. In the left column (the one under the avatar) at the very bottom (you will have to scroll through the lists of gifts, friends and interesting pages) there are options for "Block", "Report" and "Add to bookmarks". We need the first one.

As we wrote in the previous chapter, the blacklist itself is located in the "My Settings" menu section. Here in the special tab "Black List" are all the users of VKontakte banned by you. If you decide that you banned a person in vain or want to resume communication with him, then by going to this list, you can remove the desired user from there. Immediately after that, he gets free access to your profile.

By the way, you yourself can safely see the profile of the person banned by you and write him private messages if you want.

In this chapter, we will look at the "My Friends" menu section. What features and information does it contain.

Please note that this section consists of several tabs. By default, the All Friends tab opens. This list contains the profiles of all the people whose friend invites you approved and who approved your requests. This list is formed in random order, without any reference to dates. If you need to see those people who were added to you as friends last, you need to open the "New Friends" list. In our screenshot, it is marked with a red frame.

Opposite each friend in our list, there are 4 options that we can use at any time: Write a message, View friends (using this link you will see all your friend's friends), Remove from friends and Customize lists. The last option allows you to add your friend to one of the existing lists. By default, 5 lists are available: best friends, relatives, colleagues, university friends, school friends. But if this is not enough for you, then in the column on the right at the very bottom there is an option "Create a list". Here you can form a group of friends, naming it however you like. For example, you can create your own list of clients. Of course, you can do without lists.

The My Friends section has its own search that will help you quickly find people with the right parameters.

The "Friends Online" tab of the My Friends section will show you which of your friends are currently logged into VKontakte.

Now let's take a closer look at the last tab "Friend Requests". The fact is that this tab may look different, depending on the situation. If you currently have no current friend requests (i.e. no one sent you a friend request), then this tab is either empty or is a list of your subscribers.

Subscribers on the social network VKontakte are those people whom you did not accept as friends. Those. a person sent a request to you, and you rejected this request. The subscriber can see the news of the person he subscribed to in his news feed. And the one to whom the person is subscribed does not see the news of his subscriber in his news feed. While friends see each other's news in their news feeds.

If at the moment you have friend requests, then it looks like this. In the menu block in the "My Friends" column, a numerical designation appears, how many applications you have not considered at the moment. Clicking in the menu on the line "My Friends" will now open not the first tab, but the last one - "Friend Requests". This tab contains three additional tabs.

In the screenshot, we see an example of a situation where one friend request was received. At this stage, we need to make a choice - to approve the application or reject it. To approve means to add a person as a friend. Reject - leave in subscribers.

Now let's look at what outbound requests are:

If you send someone a friend request, then until the person accepts your offer, the request will be in this section. But there is another option, when the person himself sent you an application as a friend, you accepted it, and the person then deleted you from friends. What happens in this case? You become its subscriber and the application from you lies in the same section of Outgoing applications.

Be sure to check this section periodically. If your applications appear there, which you did not leave, then unsubscribe from such people by clicking on the big blue button. Most often, these are hunters for subscribers. Also note that if you yourself sent an application, but it has been unapproved for more than a week, then perhaps this application should be canceled. Of course, if you do not want to see the news of this person in your news feed.

My photos

Let's move on to the section My Photos. It contains 4 mandatory albums, which will begin to fill up on their own as you perform various actions on the VKontakte social network.

The Photos from My Page album contains all the photos you upload as your profile picture.

The album "Photos with me" is filled with photos uploaded by other users of VKontakte, in which you were marked by these users. You can go into this folder, and if the photos do not suit you, uncheck the box. This is done quite simply. You need to open a photo that has a tag with your name on it. Under the photo are clickable names of those who are marked on it. There is a cross next to your name, clicking on which will remove the unwanted tag.

The third mandatory album is called "Photos on my page". All photos that you upload to your profile, illustrating posts with them, fall into this folder.

And the last of the mandatory ones is “Saved Photos”. You fill this folder yourself, but with the help of special functions of VKontakte. Any photo you like from the news feed, someone else's profile or from a group can be saved to this folder. At the same time, if the photo is deleted in the original source (where did you get it from), then you will still have it in this folder. To save, you need to expand any OTHER photo by simply clicking on it.

The top screenshot shows that you can create your own albums. To do this, you only need to use the corresponding function.

If you are promoting any products or services, then creating albums can help you structure and present the material correctly.

When you create a new album, don't forget to add a description for it. It is important that there are descriptions for each individual photo - this is the usual respect for your audience.

If you want to publish an album in one of the posts of your profile (or group), just open the desired album and take the link to it from the browser bar. Next, add this link to the post you're creating. The link, as soon as you add it to the text input field, will cause a simple reaction - a preview (preview image) of the future publication will appear. After that, the link must be removed. It is not needed, the image will be published without it.

The published album looks quite presentable on the wall. Unlike the series of published photos, it also has a pop-up black bar on the main photo, displaying the description of this album.

Note that with any photo of your profile, you can perform a certain set of actions (depending on the album in which it is located). To do this, expand (open) the photo by clicking on it with the mouse.

For example, you can tag other people in the photos you upload.

The main set of actions is hidden in a special drop-down menu. Here is a photo editor that contains various filters and can significantly improve the look of your images. From this drop-down menu, you can specify the location on the map where the photo was taken. You can also rotate a photo if it didn't load correctly.

To sum up this chapter, let's repeat once again: create albums, give them names and descriptions, while not forgetting to caption each individual photo. Albums allow you to structure images well, they can be referenced at the right time. In addition, people love to look at photographs, especially if they are properly framed.

Profile photo feed

There is a photo feed in every profile and, as we mentioned earlier, due to its visual component, it has a certain impact on visitors.

If you do not change anything in the settings and do not pay attention to the photo tape, then it is formed by itself. It simply includes all the photos that you publish on your profile and that you add to the albums you create.

Meanwhile, the photo feed can be designed beautifully and, more importantly, functionally.

Look at the two examples on the right to see what I'm talking about.

How can we make sure that the photo feed always looks the way we need and it is not squeezed out by new photos that we publish.

There are two ways. The first of them requires constant adjustment of the tape and is as follows. We create a post in which we upload all the pictures that we want to see in the photo feed. After the post is published, refresh the page. You will see that all the photos are included in the photo feed. Now the post can be deleted as unnecessary. This will not affect the feed in any way: all images will remain in the "Photos on my wall" album, which means they will also appear in the photo feed.

In the future, when we publish new posts, the added images will crowd out the old ones. To avoid this, all unwanted items should simply be removed from the feed. The top screenshot on page 45 shows that hovering over an image reveals a cross in its upper right corner that can delete that image. Again, you need to understand that in this case, the image is removed only from the photo feed, the photos remain in the album and on the wall.

The second method is less energy intensive. It is done once and stays for a long time. We create a special album for the images that we want to see in the photo feed, and fill it. If these are vertical photos, then they will need 5 pieces, if horizontal - 4 pieces. As soon as the album is created and saved, all the photos we uploaded will fill the profile feed. Now we need to go to the "Photos on my wall" album and select the "Edit album" option there:

After that, the editing window will open for us (it is shown in the screenshot on the right). Here we will only be interested in the function "Display photos from the wall in the photo overview", where the default is ticked. This checkbox must be unchecked.

Now new photos will not end up in the photo feed and only the necessary images will always be displayed in it.

In conclusion, I would like to say that you need to design the photo feed not only aesthetically, but also for the benefit of the activity that you are promoting.

Display samples of your work there if you are a designer or a manicurist. In the profile of an information businessman, beautifully designed boxes with information products will look quite logical. In this case, do not forget to add a link to the landing page in the description of each such photo. In the photo feed, you can place a company logo or some other message to current and future customers. The main thing is to understand what questions your audience comes to your personal profile with and what they expect from you.

My news (news feed)

My News (aka News Feed, News Feed, Friend Feed) is an important component of any social network. In fact, all promotion is based on the fact that the published posts get to as many people as possible in the news feeds.

You can often hear that people working in social networks do not view their news feeds. It seems like there is enough work. However, we believe this approach is wrong.

A properly configured news feed is a source of ideas for your publications, a supplier of news from competitors, as well as an opportunity to connect with other people. After all, you expect your profile to be interesting to third-party visitors, so why do you think that others do not want it? Yes, you also need to be active in other people's profiles: write comments (about and just like that) and put likes (even if this is a great post from your competitor).

Simple pattern: like the avatars of 10 of your friends - from 5 to 8 of them will come to you and leave likes on your wall. It seems that we all understand this, but for some reason we think that with the promotion everything is somehow different.

How to set up My News in such a way that it would be interesting for us to read it ourselves? First of all, let's see what you can see here in general.

To see your news feed, you need to select the My News section in the menu block on the left.

The news feed contains a sufficient number of settings and sections to use it with maximum convenience for you.

There are three tabs at the very top. In the screenshot from the previous page, they are marked with the number 1. The first tab "News" allows us to see the posts that were published by our friends, people we follow and communities we belong to. Although this topic is given a lot of attention on the course, let me remind you that not all news gets into the feed. This is done for convenience so as not to overload those who have many friends and favorite bands with information.

It is important to understand that news from your friends (that is, the information that they publish in their personal profiles) first of all gets into the feed, and only then community news. That is why we pay so much attention to the development of a personal profile.

News can be viewed in five modes - number 2 in our screenshot. These are feed, photo, search, recommendation, and article modes.

In feed mode, you see all the published news. Moreover, you can comment on the posts you are interested in, like and repost right here. In photo mode, you can only see images. All entries to them in this mode are not displayed and you can’t put likes here. This mode is good for quickly finding the desired picture without any distractions.

The Search mode is very good for those who need to quickly find some information. The search fields that are contained here will allow you to set a variety of search parameters, which makes it possible to find exactly what you need.

You can find here posts containing a certain number of likes or mentioning a specific link. After experimenting with this section, you will discover a lot of useful things.

An interesting mode of viewing news - recommendations. Everything that the social network considers worthy of your attention gets here. For example, you are often active on the profile of one of your friends. And this friend left a comment in a community that you haven't even heard of. So a post from an unknown community may end up in your recommendations section. your friend found this post interesting.

The last section "Articles" contains texts published on wiki pages.

The block marked in the screenshot with the number 3 is not in all news feeds. This block may appear and then disappear. Profiles and pages that the social network finds useful for you are displayed here. This block is always present in the Recommendations section of your news.

Point 4 of our screen shows that you can track all the news that are published, as well as only the most interesting ones.

Note that “all news” is still a conditional indicator. The social network will only show you what you interact with the most. Liked the community post - here's all his news. Ignore the group's news in your feed - they will gradually disappear from there or appear very rarely.

We have not considered with you two more important tabs. These are the Updates tab and the Comments tab. Updates contain all the activities of your friends. Basically, this is who made friends with whom and what community he joined.

The "Comments" tab is very useful for those who actively comment. Here you can find all the posts where you left your comments and see what other users write there.

To finally close the topic of the news feed, let's say that you can hide the news of authors that are not interesting for you. In this case, people will remain your friends, but their news will no longer be broadcast to your feed.

Let's say one of your friends is too actively undertook to promote a topic that is not interesting to you. He makes 3 posts every minute and all this greatly prevents you from enjoying your presence on the social network. Or another friend of yours created a group and decided that all posts from this group should be reposted to a personal profile. At the same time, he does this all week at once. As a result, your feed was filled in 5 minutes with reposts from one community. If you understand that you don’t need such news, just hide it from your news feed. This is done very simply.

Move your mouse to the right corner of the post you didn't like in your news feed. There will immediately appear a magic cross. Click on it.

After that, a big blue button will appear in front of you, which will allow you to hide all news from this source from your news feed.

If you did this by accident, then on the right there is a "Cancel" button that can correct this oversight.

I really want to believe that you have come to understand that other people are also annoyed by the same news, intrusive advertising, 10 posts per second or endless reposts from your communities. It is not so difficult to keep track of what is interesting to you, what information resonates with you, what pictures catch your eye. It's also worth keeping your own profile. Keep a balance of personal and professional. Too frequent mention of your indiscreet person can also one day bother someone. Benefits are everything. Tips, recommendations, useful lessons on the topic you are promoting always give a good number of reposts and comments, which means they increase your authority on the social network. Of course, if your topic is of interest to someone else besides you.

My bookmarks

In the other two tabs of this section, you can add the necessary information yourself.

The People tab may contain links to other people's personal profiles. To add a link to this section, you need to go to the profile that you want to bookmark, and at the very bottom of the left column (under the avatar) find the line "Add to bookmarks". The profile will be added to the corresponding tab in your bookmarks section. It does not matter at all whether you are friends with this person or not.

It's important to know that adding a profile or community to your bookmarks section will prevent you from seeing their news in your news feed.

My Bookmarks is an incredibly useful and convenient tool for those who lead an active lifestyle on the VKontakte social network. As the name implies, bookmarks allow you to quickly find the information you need.

This section has 5 tabs: Photos, Videos, Posts, People and Links. The first three include news under which you like. Those. in this case, the like serves as the anchor that will transfer the news to this section.

Sometimes those who actively use bookmarks put likes rather sparingly, guided by the fact that the bookmarks section will be clogged with information they do not need. Here you should think about your goals and objectives. What is more important for you - promotion (which is impossible without your active social activity) or a neat bookmarking section in your personal profile? In addition, no one encourages you to put likes mindlessly. But not putting them where it could be done is also not very far-sighted.

Other sections of the menu

If you are actively promoting something through your personal VKontakte profile, then the My Answers menu section will be an important tool for you. All the actions of other people related to your profile are recorded here. Here you can see who left a like, who wrote a comment and which one, who sent a friend request and who approved your request.

Since people may, for example, ask a question under a post that was published a long time ago, and it is already difficult to find it on the wall, we recommend that you check My Answers regularly. Then you will be able to respond in a timely manner to many actions of your visitors and readers of your news.

I would also like to say a few words about the My Video Recordings and My Audio Recordings sections. If you use this type of content for promotion, we strongly recommend that you organize it by albums. This will allow you to quickly find the information you need and provide links to the desired album, and not to a separate video or audio.

Also do not forget to give detailed descriptions for the video. Now, few people start watching a video if they do not understand what they can see there. Even if you post a popular film on VKontakte without a description and with a description, the second option is gaining more views. What can we say about private video recording.

This concludes our review of the personal profile menu items.

Editing personal information

Also, in the visible field of personal information, either information about higher education, or the last place of work indicated by you will fall. As we already mentioned, for promotion it will often be more appropriate to display the current place of work than education. But there are always exceptions to the rules.

Filling in all the other tabs in this section will not be difficult for you. The main thing to remember is to separate the essential from the non-essential. So, no one will be upset if you leave the "Interests" tab blank or do not indicate the full list of your brothers and sisters.

As you already know, personal information is divided into two groups: the one that is displayed directly in the profile, and the one that is hidden under the inscription "Show full information" (highlighted in green).

Any personal information is edited in a special section. To get into it, you can use either the inscription under the avatar, or the button next to the My Page menu item (highlighted in orange).

Once we get to the Edit page section, we see 7 tabs here. Each of them is responsible for some areas of our life, which we are ready to inform other people about.

The first tab is called "Basic". All the information you provide here will appear in the visible field of our personal profile information.

Note that here you can easily change not only secondary information, but also your first and last name.

In the social network Vkontakte, users can share their news with each other. However, the principle of operation of the social network implied the ability for any user to view the page data of another user. It doesn't matter if you have him as a friend or not. There was also no way to know exactly who was viewing your profile. The latest innovation allows you to hide your posts from those who are not your friends in this social network.

Features of the "hidden" mode

Previously, in the privacy settings, you could close your page almost completely from strangers. However, this required a lot of unnecessary gestures. For example, photos needed to be hidden separately, lists of friends separately, etc. Also, the functionality made it possible to hide posts on the social network, no matter your own or reposts. At the same time, it was required to put a lock icon during the publication.

The innovation allows you to hide all the data of your page from strangers by pressing only one button. The only ones left open are:

• Name and surname indicated on the site;
• Date of birth indicated on the site;
• City;
• Place of work;
• Number of friends and followers;
• Number of records.

Another user who is not your friend can only see the number of friends and followers, but he will not be able to see who exactly these people are. The situation is similar with records. You can write a message to a person with a private profile, if he has not disabled this option in the privacy settings. You can also send a friend request. If you are accepted, you will be able to view information from the page of this user, if it has not been hidden from friends.

A private profile does not hide information from the page from friends, but if you need to, you can set up lists of friends who can view photos, lists of friends and other information.

Reposts and innovation

This innovation also applies to reposting entries, or rather the ability to view a list of people who have shared this information with their friends. Now an outsider will not be able to view the list of those who reposted. This can only be done by the direct author of this post. The rest will only be able to see the number of people who reposted.

How to "close" a profile

Anyone can make a profile closed from prying eyes. This is done in just a few steps on the full version for browsers. Everything is completely free.

The instruction looks like this:

1. 1. Click on your profile picture and username at the top right of the screen.
   2. A context menu should appear where you must select the item "Settings".

1. 1. Pay attention to the right side of the page. Need to go to section "Privacy".
   2. Scroll to the very end of the page until you come across a block "Other". There you need to pay attention to the graph "Profile type". Click on it to access editing.
   3. Choose from the available types "Closed".

"Close" the profile on the mobile version

If you don’t have a computer with Internet access at hand, then you can set the “closed” status for your Vkontakte profile from the mobile application. The instruction for the classic app looks like this:

1. 1. In the case of the mobile version, you need to initially go to the main section of the application. To do this, click on the icon of three stripes, which is located at the bottom of the screen.
   2. Now in the upper right part of the screen, click on the gear icon.

1. 1. In the settings, select the item "Privacy".

1. There you need to scroll to the section "Other" and find the item "Profile type". Set the value opposite to it "Closed".

If necessary, you can return the privacy settings to the values ​​​​that were set by default.

As you can see, the new feature on Vkontakte can be useful to those users who, for one reason or another, do not want their personal data to be viewed by strangers. Plus, this feature is completely free.

Answer: If your graffiti was published on your wall, and not on the wall of the person you painted it for, leave a transfer request in this thread. Be sure to include a link to the "problematic" graffiti and a link to the participant to whom it was intended.

Is it possible to create pages for animals?

Good time of the day! Wouldn't it be against the rules to create a page for animals? After all, we also live near you and we also have friends. We also want to upload our photos and videos on the Internet and participate in discussions of interesting groups for us!

Answer: Creating a page for animals is against the rules. Such pages are removed as soon as possible.
Information about your animals (dogs, cats, birds, fish, etc.) can be posted on your page or by creating a club dedicated to your pets.

The information on this page may not be correct.

I have a sign on the page "The information on this page may not correspond to reality." The paid rating dropped sharply, why did it appear? My friends know me, but for others I do not want to show my real data. Remove.

Answer: First of all: ask to remove the sign, because you don’t like it and irritate, but you won’t fix anything at the same time - it’s completely useless. By registering on the site, you agreed to the rules that prohibit the provision of false information.

In order for you not to have a sign, you need to be guided by the following rules:
1. The main photo should be your photo, not a dog/cat, car, picture. Any user should easily identify you by the main photo.
2. The surname and name should be the one that is written in your passport, and not the one you used to call yourself. No "nicknames", "pseudonyms" are allowed on the site. You can enter them in the "nickname" column. Also, the surname and name should not contain superfluous words, such as: "Ivanov with little legs", "Petrov the great magician", "Ivashkadurashka".

When a warning is issued, your bonus rating and part of the base one are reset to zero. After correcting information about yourself and approval of the change by the moderator, the plate will disappear and the entire rating will return (if the plate has disappeared and the rating has not returned, then simply click on your rating strip).

Since many users change their data back to false after removing the warning, the following changes have been made to the system. After removing the plate:

1. You will not be able to change your photo (avatar) for a month.
2. You will not be able to change your data (full name) for exactly one year.

These restrictions apply to absolutely all violators and cannot be canceled for a specific user.

I can't change my personal information

I change the marital status from "I have a girlfriend" to "not married", I press "save", and it again puts itself that "I have a girlfriend", what should I do?

Answer: You need to clear the cache, check, delete cookies and re-enter the site, check, update the browser.

For instructions on these operations, see "Miscellaneous/General Questions".

It will not work - go under another browser (except IE).

Two users at the same time on the same computer. Maybe?

Answer: Use different browsers - e.g. Opera and Firefox 3

Asking to activate the page via SMS

Answer: Registration on the site is absolutely free. All messages (with a request to send SMS) on the walls, in private messages, in the comments are fraud and a scam.

I want my first and last name to be lowercase

Answer: it's forbidden

Noticed a free id

Hello, I noticed that id13 is free, is it possible to somehow change the old one to this one or just take this number?

Answer: No, you cannot change your id to a free one, as well as take it.

How to make a VIP page from an ordinary page?

Answer: this is not possible, there are no VIP users on the site.

How to install emoticons?

Answer: Emoticons can only be installed by clicking on the link
http://oleg.sunoni.net/smileys.userjs.html

Email not showing in contacts

For some reason, on my page in contacts, the contact e-mail is not displayed, neither for me nor for other users viewing my page, although it is set that everyone can view the mail ???

Answer: User email addresses are not shown to prevent hacking of their pages. The vast majority of users indicate in this column the e-mail to which their account is registered.

If you really want, you can specify an e-mail in another field.

Where to find your city?

I can’t register, my city is not on the list, but I can’t dial it myself.

Answer: Update your browser to the latest version.

Column "Address" in the contact information.

I registered on the site a relatively long time ago, a column was offered for filling in which it was required to indicate the address of residence. I indicated the street, now I want to delete this information, but I can’t find where to do it.
In the Contact Information section, I click on "edit", but there are only phones, a website and icq.
What to do? How to remove the unfortunate line?

Answer: In the "Contacts" tab in editing the profile, click the "Save" button.

Can I find out who visited my page?

Answer: There is no such function.

Can't change name! It doesn't work in the settings! I tried everything!

Answer: Use the latest versions of browsers. Preferably Firefox or Opera.
Clear the cache. Click on "sign out" of Contact and log in again.

Additionally:
A browser is a web browsing program such as Firefox (http://www.mozilla-russia.org/), Opera (http://ru.opera.com/) or Internet Explorer (http://www. microsoft.com/rus/windows/ie/default.mspx). VKontakte.ru supports all common types of modern browsers - Internet Explorer 6.0 (and newer versions), Firefox 1.5 (and newer versions), Opera 9.0.
You can install any of these browsers by following the links.
Be sure to install the latest version of the browser and remember to update it regularly.
For MAC users, we recommend that you install the Firefox browser.

How to clear the cache?
Internet Explorer: Tools -> Internet Options -> General -> Browsing History -> Delete -> Temporary Internet Files -> Delete Files
Firefox: Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> Network -> Cache -> Clear Now
Opera: Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> History -> Disk Cache -> Clear Now

Please note that meaningless names, names with one letter or containing extraneous characters (hearts, asterisks, etc.) may not be saved.

How to increase the rating?

Answer: Click on the rating bar on your page.
The indicators on the right should be as follows:
Your page
+25% photography
+10% about yourself
+10% contacts
+20% school
+10% passion
+10% space
+10% work
+5% university

Please note - the rating is automatically lowered if the information on your page is invalidated (a sign about this appears on top). Read more about false information on the page here:
http://vkontakte.ru/topic1562682

How to specify my "second half"?

Answer: Open the "Edit page" link (http://vkontakte.ru/profileEdit.php) and in the "Marital status" section, select the appropriate item: "Single / Single", "Have a girlfriend/friend", "Engaged" , "Married", "Everything is complicated", "Actively searching". If not the last item is selected, a drop-down list of your friends of the opposite sex will appear. Choose your soul mate from this list. Please note: in order for the result to become visible on your page, the same operation must be done by your chosen one (chosen one) in relation to you.

What are the percentages under my photo?

Answer: This is called rating. It shows the fullness of your page. It also depends on the number of votes that other users gave in favor of the author of the page as a sign of respect or sympathy.

How to change the address and index in the Contact information? There is no way to edit them.

Answer: To delete them, click "Save" in the Contacts tab (http://vkontakte.ru/profileEdit.php?page=contacts). New data can be entered in the Places tab (http://vkontakte.ru/profileEdit.php?page=address).

Can I delete all messages on my wall at once?

Answer: There is no such function.

Why did the information on the page move?

Answer: Check if your wall has a long link or text without spaces. They can move the line and all the information on the page if the display of the scroll bar is disabled in your browser.

My place of work is not on the list. What to do?

Answer: Add it using "Other". However, be very careful not to create a duplicate. Remember that places of work may have different names, full or abbreviated, written in Latin or Cyrillic, indicating the form of ownership of the company and without. Check the list for all options.

How to find work colleagues?

Answer: In the section "Edit page - Career" (http://vkontakte.ru/profileEdit.php?page=career) specify the data about your work. Do not forget to enter the position and years of work. If you are still working at this place, do not select the item “end year”. You can add several jobs - and links will appear on the main page where you can find current and former colleagues.

Why specify a specialization in a school?

Answer: If you specify a specialization, you can find people with similar interests. To search, click the name of the specialization on the main page, under the school number.

What does "estimated production year" mean?

When filling in information about the school, you are asked to enter the "estimated year of graduation." If I have already finished school, what should I write here?

Answer: If you attended more than one school, then in the data for the first school you did not graduate, enter the year you planned to graduate if you had not moved to another school. Be sure to fill out this item, since it is by the year of graduation, actual or estimated, that the system is looking for your classmates, both from the school you left and from the one in which you celebrated the “Last Call”. Do not confuse the year of graduation from a particular school (when you left) and the year of the expected graduation.

How to find classmates from multiple schools?

Answer: In the "Secondary education" section (http://vkontakte.ru/profileEdit.php?page=education), first select one school, then click "Add another school". Fill in the data (years of study, year of graduation, actual or expected, class number or letter) for both, and then you can find all classmates.

The actions are the same as here http://vkontakte.ru/techsupp.php?fid=1&act=t&tid=80&p=6

How to see the list of your classmates?

Answer: Just click the letter or number of your class on the main page. It is very important to complete this item so that your classmates can also find you.

My school is not on the list. What to do?

Answer: If you carefully looked through the list of schools and did not find the one you need, select "Other" and enter the number or name. Be careful not to create duplicates, otherwise it will be difficult for you and your classmates to find each other.
If there is no "Other" item, leave a request here - http://vkontakte.ru/admin.php?act=add_item.

Why can't the college be listed on the site?

Answer: Colleges and technical schools can be selected in the "Secondary education" section, in the same place as schools -
http://vkontakte.ru/profileEdit.php?page=education.

How to find classmates?

Answer: On the tab "Edit page - Education" (http://vkontakte.ru/profileEdit.php?page=education) you can select the country, city, university, faculty and department where you study or studied. Then click the name of the university, faculty, department or year of graduation on your main page. A list of people with matching data will appear.

How can I find people with the same interests as me?

I'm interested in finding my like-minded people. How to do it?

Answer: On the tab "Edit page - Personal" (http://vkontakte.ru/profileEdit.php?page=personal) fill in your interests (separated by commas) and then click the appropriate link (for example, the name of a musical group) on your main page . A list of people who share your passions will appear.

How to limit the circle of people who will have access to my "contacts"?

For example, I don't want anyone to see my contact information: phones, ICQ number, website or forum nickname. How can I restrict the display of this information on my page?

Answer: Go to the page for editing your contacts - http://vkontakte.ru/profileEdit.php?page=contacts - and select the desired item in the box that appears on the right when you select a contact.

After turning on the "Friends Folders" service, you can restrict access to your contacts to different groups of friends.

Recently, in the comments, we were asked “Why don’t you have a lesson about the profile?”. Of course, I immediately gave a link to, but the question was actually absolutely justified: recently the profile view has changed, and we have something to add to that lesson. Therefore, today I will tell you what the profile looks like now and how to fill it out.

First, let's define the concepts. What is a profile? This is a page that summarizes all the necessary information about the journal or community. Many beginners (and rather experienced LJ users) neglect filling it out, and, in my opinion, they are not very right in this. After all, a profile is a great opportunity to briefly tell about yourself.

Any blog in LiveJournal has a profile. You can find it in several ways:

• click on the (small person icon) next to the username, and for the community click on the community icon;
• type http:// in the address bar of your browser Username.livejournal.com/profile (“username”, of course, must be typed in English).

You can get to the profile of your magazine by simply clicking on the inscription "Profile" in the main menu. But the above methods work too :)

With the help of a profile, you can learn a lot about a magazine or community - of course, within the limits that the blog owner specifies.

The profile can be conditionally divided into the following blocks:

• general information about the journal;
• information about the journal owner;
• block for "composing on a free topic";
• information about friends and communities read by the owner of the journal;
• gifts:)

There is also a panel with all sorts of useful buttons at the top of the profile, we will analyze it in the next lesson. In the meantime, I'll tell you more about each block.

General information about the journal

Here you can find out:

• title and subtitle of the journal (you can specify them for your journal)
• information about (paid, enhanced or basic)
• place in and meaning
• general statistics of the journal: how many entries it contains, how many comments the author wrote and received, how many photos he uploaded to the Photo Album, and so on

Gifts

This block displays the ones that other users gave you. By the way, you can refuse them altogether: on the profile editing page, indicate in the "Gifts" line who can send them to you (there is an option "do not accept").

Should I complete my profile? Everyone decides for himself.

My opinion is definitely worth it. It is here that you can conveniently indicate all the necessary links and contacts, write a short story about your blog and give your future readers the opportunity to get to know you. I always look at the profiles of users I don't know.

Do you go to other people's profiles or do you immediately read their magazines? Is your own profile completed?