Telegram chats can be personal and group. The user can create both. In addition, there is an opportunity to make a secret chat in Telegram. What is it and why is it needed? We will also consider this issue in the article.
How do I create a chat?
Telegram is a messenger for sending text and voice messages, as well as video. To download the program, you need to go to the official website: https://telegram.org. Versions for computers, smartphones, tablets with various OS are available here. You should download the application on Android through the Google Play Market.
So, how to create a chat in Telegram?
1. Start the program. Call up the menu.
2. Select the New Group option if you want to create a group conversation.
3.Add the desired participants and rename the conversation in the header.
4.If you want to write to a specific person, click on Contacts. Next, click on New Contact.
5. Enter information in the fields.
6.Click on Create.
How do I find a group conversation?
- Open the app.
- In the search box, enter the name of the group. The name must be preceded by an @ sign.
- Join the chat if it is open. If not, leave a request.
If your friend is in a private chat, ask him to add you to the conversation.
Secret chats
If the conversation is confidential, the user can deliberately create a secret conversation himself. How is safety ensured?
The entire transmission is securely encrypted. Only the sender and the recipient have access to messages. No one else can read them, since interception and subsequent decryption of information is excluded. Even the Telegram developers themselves cannot do this.
The participants in a secret conversation pass encrypted keys to each other.
The connection is called "end-to-end" or end-to-end. You can compare keys from each other if, for example, in doubt. They will be the same, and you will find that it is more than safe to chat in a secret chat.
Accordingly, you cannot forward these messages to other conversations. Users can also set a certain period of time after which the entire chat will be deleted automatically without user intervention. Self-destruction is also possible immediately after reading the message. In this case, the deletion occurs on two devices at the same time. By the way, such messages are not stored on the company's servers either. If the message, for example, was not delivered, it can only be read by the sender, since it has not been saved anywhere else.
Thus, the maximum level of confidentiality is ensured.
How do I create secret conversations?
Go back to the program menu. Now click on the "Create Secret Chat" action. If you have an English version, the option will be called "New Secret Chat".
It should be noted right away that the secret chat in Telegram is recorded in the gadget in which it is created. If you want to continue the secret chat on the computer, you will go to your profile and find that it is not there. Luckily, you can start an unlimited number of secret conversations, even as the same person.
To enable the self-destruct function, you need to do the following:
1. Go to the conversation settings (icon at the top right).
2.Select the option "Set self-destruct timer".
3. Select a period and click on the "Done" button. The function is now activated.
Two check marks next to messages indicate that they have been delivered and have been viewed by the recipient. The cleaning timer is then activated immediately. When this period expires, the message will be deleted from two devices at once.
If your interlocutor takes a screenshot of the screen with your messages, the program will notify you of this.
Please note that only those texts and photos that you sent immediately after activating this option will be deleted. Those that were transferred earlier will remain in place.
How do I delete a conversation?
To delete a conversation, you need to open the list and find it there. Right-click on it and select Delete Conversation.
All chats in Telegram, regardless of what type they are, are protected. A secret conversation differs from an ordinary one only in encryption methods. In the secret, there is no intermediary, that is, the information does not pass through the server. The advantage of regular chat is that you will always have access to your correspondence from your computer, tablet or smartphone at the same time. It is better to download the program from the official website or from the store.
It has some distinctive positive features related to the safety of using this program. One of the main features is considered to be a secret chat in Telegram.
If you take a closer look at this function, you can see a number of features of its use. The correspondence is not saved on the server and is immediately deleted immediately after the message is sent. The rest of the users, of course, cannot read it. And to increase the power of protection, the final encryption of the message is implemented. Thus, the sent message remains available only for its addressee and addressee. The algorithms used by the system guarantee a high level of security, and even the developers of the messenger themselves cannot decrypt someone else's personal correspondence.
For each message or individual correspondence, you can select and set a separate self-liquidation timer, which is a minimum of two seconds and a maximum of seven days. As soon as the term ends, the message is automatically deleted.
The recipient reads a new message and after a few seconds it simply disappears. If you are smart, of course, you can have time to take a screenshot or a screenshot. But in this case, the program will capture the screenshot and send a notification about this operation to the sender.
For this you need:
That's it, the secret chat has been created:
To set a timer for self-destruction of messages in the secret Telegram chat, you must:
There are some features of creating such chats in Telegram:
A secret chat in Telegram is tied to a specific device, that is, when a conversation is started on a smartphone, it will only be possible to continue it on it;
when you log out of your account, the secret chat is not saved;
with one friend, you can create several chats at once.
It has some distinctive positive features related to the safety of using this program. One of the main features is considered to be a secret chat in Telegram.
If you take a closer look at this function, you can see a number of features of its use. The correspondence is not saved on the server and is immediately deleted immediately after the message is sent. The rest of the users, of course, cannot read it. And to increase the power of protection, the final encryption of the message is implemented. Thus, the sent message remains available only for its addressee and addressee. The algorithms used by the system guarantee a high level of security, and even the developers of the messenger themselves cannot decrypt someone else's personal correspondence.
For each message or individual correspondence, you can select and set a separate self-liquidation timer, which is a minimum of two seconds and a maximum of seven days. As soon as the term ends, the message is automatically deleted.
The recipient reads a new message and after a few seconds it simply disappears. If you are smart, of course, you can have time to take a screenshot or a screenshot. But in this case, the program will capture the screenshot and send a notification about this operation to the sender.
For this you need:
That's it, the secret chat has been created:
To set a timer for self-destruction of messages in the secret Telegram chat, you must:
There are some features of creating such chats in Telegram:
A secret chat in Telegram is tied to a specific device, that is, when a conversation is started on a smartphone, it will only be possible to continue it on it;
when you log out of your account, the secret chat is not saved;
with one friend, you can create several chats at once.
When working with highly profitable investment projects, it is often necessary to take a screenshot of the screen. For example, to show your payout or progress in building a structure. And when faced with a problem or difficult question, a screen is simply necessary so that the interlocutor can understand what is the matter and help you.
When communicating with newbies, I noticed that some do not know how to take a screenshot of the screen. Many of them just take the phone, take a picture of the monitor screen, transfer the photo to the computer and send 🙂
First of all, I will tell you how to take a screenshot on a computer. Next, let's pay attention to a special program with which you can not only screen the screen, but also automatically upload an image to the Internet.And since many people like to sit with mobile devices, at the end of the article we will analyze how to take a screenshot on Android devices (Samsung, Sony), iOS (Iphone and Ipad) and Windows Phone (Nokia Lumia). Go.
How to take a screenshot of the screen on a computer or laptop in Windows
You need to open what we want to screen and click on the Print Screen button (it can be called Prt Scr SysRq, Prtsc). It is usually located at the top right of the keyboard, as shown in the image:
On laptops to take a screenshot, you may need to press more than one key, but a combination Fn + Print Screen. This is due to the fact that laptops use a stripped-down keyboard, and one key can be responsible for 2 functions at once. To activate the second function, you need to hold down the "Fn" key, which is usually located at the bottom left of the keyboard.
And so, after clicking on Print Screen (or Fn + Print Screen on a laptop), we took a screenshot, but it is still in the computer's memory, so it needs to be saved. To do this, go to the menu Start> All Programs> Accessories> Paint and press the key combination Ctrl + V... If necessary, you can edit the image (crop, highlight, etc.). When everything is ready, you need to perform the last step, click File> Save As and give the file a name.
Screenshot software SSmaker
Well, if you want to make screenshots in just 3 clicks and instantly share them, the SSmaker program will help us with this. You can download the program for screenshots at the link: Ssmaker
- After installing the program, open what we want to screen and press the already familiar Print Screen key;
- Select the desired area;
- Click on the download icon. Done, the link to the screenshot is in our clipboard - just press the key combination Ctrl + V to insert a link.
If you need to edit the screenshot (eg blur part of the image, highlight with arrows, lines) or save it to your computer, then click on the "open in the image editor" icon.
How to take a screenshot on your phone (Android, iOS, Windows Phone)
If on computers and laptops with the creation of screenshots everything is more or less clear, then on tablets and phones it is somewhat more complicated. The fact is that on mobile devices there is no special key for this purpose, but combinations of buttons are used.
Let's start with iOS which runs Ipad tablets and Iphone phones. We need to press simultaneously "Home" (round button at the bottom) and the on / off button. The resulting image will be saved in the Photos application on your device.
How to take a screenshot on Android
The creation of screenshots on Android devices has its own peculiarities. Namely, the method and its availability depends on the OS version.
- Android 2.3 and below. For devices of this operating system, there is no standard function for creating screenshots, so you will have to look for a special application;
- Android 3.2. In version 3.2, you need to hold down the Recent Programs button to take a screenshot;
- Android 4.0. A screenshot of the screen is created by simultaneously pressing the power and volume down buttons;
- Samsung running Android. There are 3 ways here - try each one, one will work. 1) Simultaneous holding of the Home and Power buttons; 2) Holding "Volume Down" and "Power"; 3) Sliding the edge of the palm across the screen of the device from left to right.
The captured images will be in the Gallery application.
If you have a Nokia Lumia phone and operating system Windows Phone, then there is an instruction for you too 🙂 To create a screen in Windows Phone 8, you need to press the power button and the "Win" button. For a newer version - Windows Phone 8.1, you need to press the volume up button and the power button at the same time.
Secret chat is precisely why Telegram is considered the safest messenger among its popular counterparts. The developers have taken care of everything and using this chat you can be completely calm about the confidentiality of your correspondence, neither hackers nor special services will get to it. In order to make it easier to understand why the secret chat in Telegram is so good, let's look at its main advantages:
- Self destruction- in the settings of the secret chat, you can set a self-destruction timer for messages from a second to a week, after the specified time has elapsed, the message will be deleted not only from your device, but also from the interlocutor, it will no longer be possible to restore it.
- Anonymity- unlike other instant messengers, Telegram has a username, by telling it to your interlocutor, you can hide your phone number, thereby preserving your anonymity.
- Encryption- all messages, picture and video files are encrypted! If someone intercepts traffic from your device, he will not be able to do anything with it, since it is impossible to decrypt it without a key.
- Screenshot notification- if your interlocutor takes a screenshot of the screen, you will receive a notification.
This function is not available in the computer version!
Instructions for Android
Timer
The secret chat is ready, it remains only to set a timer for messages, for this in the chat itself in the menu at the top by clicking on three dots, open a window in which we will select "Set self-destruct timer". In the menu that opens, select the required time. That's all your secret chat is set up and ready to communicate securely.
IPhone manual
In iPhone, everything is practically the same:- Pencil icon;
- New secret chat.
