Today we have there will be a speech about how Vkontakte can close a page from outsiders, more precisely, how to limit access to it as much as possible - unfortunately, the functionality of the social network does not provide for the ability to hide the page completely.
To ensure that your profile information is not available to everyone, you can use the privacy settings. Ready? Then let's get started.
Select the item on the left side of the page " My settings"Which is next to" My audios», « Posts" etc. In the same place, go to the " Privacy b ".
Before you will be possible settings confidentiality - for example, “ Who can see my photos" or " Who can see my audio recordings". You are free to choose whether you want to hide the selected information from everyone or give access to it to certain people: for example, “ Who can see the list of my groups» - « Only friends". There is also convenient function « Some friends»: You can choose from your friendlist those for whom you want to keep the information visible.
"Other"
Also at the very end of the privacy settings page there is a separate block “ Other". We are interested in his subparagraph " Who can see my page on the Internet».
The VK functionality provides the following options to choose from:
- everyone;
- any people, except for those who came from search engines;
- only to those who are already registered on Vkontakte.
If you choose last option, then it will be possible to find your page only through a search in the VK itself, and unauthorized users will see from the link to you that the page is available only to those who entered the site.
"How other users see my page"
At the very end of the privacy settings block, the functionality will offer you another trick - take a look at a sample of how your page looks to others. To do this, follow the link of the same name.
You will be shown your profile with restrictions and an inscription above it " Almost everyone sees your page this way. Want to know how your page sees a certain person ? " If so, you just need to enter your friend's name or a link to someone's page in the field below this entry.
Tricks
Even if you hide everything that was available in the " Privacy", Visitors to your page will still see the following:
- your photo on the avatar;
- brief information - birthday, country, language, if specified;
- whatever is on your wall;
- the content of the two photo albums by default is “ Pictures on my wall" and " Photos from my page».
The problem can be partially solved as follows:
- remove the avatar;
- put a fictitious date of birth, fill in only the required fields for registration;
- do not leave anything on the VK wall that you do not want to show strangers- records on it, unfortunately, cannot be hidden, unless they were left by other people.
Black list
However, there is still one way to completely and completely hide your Vkontakte profile, but it is quite cardinal. This is a blacklist. You can send a user to it like this:
- go to " My settings»;
- select the sub-item " Black list»;
- paste a link to someone's profile and click " Add", Or on the person's page under the video block, select" Block such and such».
The other day an event took place, which, in terms of its potential, is capable of giving rise to a revolution. As far as I understand, not in all, but in some regions, access to social network "VKontakte"... First, there was information that the "contact" was included in the "black list" of prohibited sites in connection with the presence of child pornography, instructions for the manufacture of drugs and explosives, as well as because of incitement to suicide.
Later, literally within half an hour, a denial appeared, claiming that VKontakte got into the “black list” by accident, through an oversight of one employee, who allegedly put a checkmark in the wrong place. What a coincidence!
In fact, it looks like an indicative action on the part of the state, like we are so strong and if we want, we will cover your contact with one click of the mouse. And the knees of ordinary users trembled: "But what about my selection of great music?"
In addition, this serves as an excellent touch to the scandals that were around the creator herself popular network in Russia and the sale of 48% of shares in the hands of United Capital Partners. The transaction itself was allegedly supervised by the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin. The government does not like the fact that an uncontrolled social network is carrying out its activities right in front of them. Therefore, they are getting closer and closer to her.
In fact, I would only be glad if the contact was closed for some time, at least for a month, and then it would either be returned back, or someone created a new similar social network. But this month, would have made serious changes in our life (everyone would have started to thump, for example) or, on the contrary, would have engaged in useful things, first of all for themselves, and not for the network.
But the contact will not be closed. They simply cannot close it, and they, like Igor Nikolaev, have five reasons for this ...
Firstly, these are huge losses for those who make money on Vkontakte, and where there are losses, there are serious unrest and discontent. Who wants to be bombarded with tons of negativity?
Secondly, in the wake of general virtualization (and someone still arranges pickets against globalization), contact, as an already existing and proven site, today is the tool with which you can monitor various processes in society. Who wrote what, how this or that person thinks, what he does - all the data is practically in open access... And that some do not even think about hiding them, but on the contrary are even more active.
This is already existing base data, which contains a lot of information about different people Moreover, no one is forcing these people to virtualize - this is their conscious choice. Why destroy today, then what will be tomorrow total instrument control?
Thirdly, in principle, there is nothing to close it, porn, instructions for the manufacture of explosives, drugs and suicide, all over the Internet shaft. It turns out that it is necessary to completely ban the use of the Internet?
Fourthly, the closure of VKontakte can really become a catalyst revolution! Because there are enough people in our country who are dissatisfied with the current state of affairs. It's like a throbbing pain inside, and the contact is pain relieving. I sat on the net in the evening, talked, searched, watched something funny, let off steam, so to speak, and sleep. Why deprive people of anesthesia?
Finally, the fifth, this is what today almost every Internet user is faced with addiction to social networks, and in particular from contact. So closing VKontakte today is the same as "no alcohol law" which was introduced in 1985. And this did not lead to anything good, only the production and consumption of the surrogate increased several times. Why make the same mistakes twice?
These are the thoughts that have gathered in my head, although maybe everything is much simpler and this is generally the intrigues of Zuckerberg?
German Klimenko laughed at the ridiculous spam attack on users of the popular Russian social network
March 6, 2017 could have become a day of mourning for users of the popular Russian social network VKontakte (since the end of February, a message has been circulating on the resource about its imminent blocking), but the next closure of the site was not destined to happen. " Real time”Decided to understand the situation and collected five facts about the problems of the popular social network.
Why won't March 6 be a "day of mourning"?
Since the end of February, a message has been circulating on the VKontakte social network about the imminent closure of the resource, and on the eve of the publication with the same content, spammers fasted at a rate of once a minute. The test of the post named a specific closing date - March 6, 2017 - and the person in charge who spoke with an official statement, - Herman Klimenko, who, according to the authors of the message, is the press secretary of VK (in fact, Klimenko holds the position of advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on Internet issues).
German Klimenko has already commented on the situation to the press, saying that everyone is openly laughing at this message, and he is not a press secretary for the social network, which, by the way, will not be closed.
Note that even such a clumsy presentation of the message could cause a small surge of panic and increased attention to the news about the closure of the resource. At the same time, users of the social network were frightened by the fact that after blocking VK, their personal information would be in public access, and to avoid this, they need to copy this message to their wall.
German Klimenko has already commented on the situation to the press, saying that everyone is openly laughing at this message, and he is not a press secretary for the social network, which, by the way, will not be closed. Photo rosbalt.ru
Accidents in VK data centers and regular failures
Rumors about the upcoming closure of "VK" notably warmed up large-scale failure in the social network, which occurred at the beginning of this week and lasted for several hours. But it is worth noting that VKontakte, like any other resource, is at risk of being inaccessible for a number of technical reasons.
In general, in the history of "VK" there are several major failures in work. One of the most notable happened on July 25, 2010: the site remained unavailable for more than four hours due to a power outage in the data center. Another failure took place on July 27, 2014: then, as a result of an accident in one of the data centers, the site was also inaccessible to users.
On August 4, 2015, the VKontakte website remained unavailable for more than two hours. According to the company's press service, the cause of the problem was a physical break in the cable connecting the data centers. It was later reported that the cause of the failure was "a fatal coincidence of a number of circumstances." The increasing incidence of VKontakte's unavailability led to the popularization of the hashtag # vkzhivi on Twitter.
Is Pavel Durov to blame for everything?
In addition to the hashtag, the opinion spread among users that regular failures began exactly after Pavel Durov left the company. On April 1, 2014, on his VKontakte page, Durov announced that he was leaving the post of CEO of the company.
In his address, the creator of the social network claimed that in 2013 his freedom of action as the CEO of VKontakte was greatly reduced. He complained that the principles underlying the social network had become more and more difficult to defend and that formal positions in the current conditions were not interesting to him. Experts are sure that in this way Durov hinted at serious pressure from the security forces, demanding the closure of the opposition VK groups, censorship and access to personal data of users.
Durov sold his shares to a well-known media manager and former to CEO"MegaFon" to Ivan Tavrin, and the entire social network was taken over by Mail.Ru Group.
The opinion spread among users that regular interruptions in work began exactly after Pavel Durov left the company. Photo aif.by
Not the first "closure" in 10 years of the existence of the social network
The upcoming "closure" of "VKontakte" will not be the first and obviously not the last in the history of the social network. In 2009, the resource was supposed to be closed by a court decision; in March 2012, Pavel Durov himself allegedly stated that "his brainchild will stop working, since it has become too difficult to manage the site."
In the vastness of "VK" even exists thematic group under the title "Maybe it's true, maybe not ..." VKontakte will be closed ", in which, once a year or half a year, panic messages appear that the social network will be closed.
A hotbed of fakes
VKontakte is a fairly large-scale hotbed of fake news, not only about its closure. As with any social network, fictional stories of varying degrees are distributed through VK, which, sometimes without preliminary check, get into the media and are perceived by the population as verified facts.
Similar cases periodically occur in the Tatarstan press: literally last year, a local newspaper spread the news that during a fire at one of the industrial facilities of the Republic of Tatarstan, a huge piece of concrete ceiling flew away from an explosion towards the penal colony and, when it fell, demolished a watch tower with a machine gunner. broke through the fence and the restricted area, and the prisoners allegedly fled wherever they looked.
Lina Sarimova
"VKontakte" Vladislav Tsyplukhin said that rumors about the closure of this resource unfounded. “This is all nonsense,” he added. On his VKontakte page, Tsyplukhin also noted that "some idiotic" rumor was born, which had to be refuted. The source of these data remains unknown, but recently the rumor about the closure of Vkontakte again spread through the media and blogs. It is reported that the social network will be closed, moreover, a specific date is indicated - March 15. VKontakte will be closed by the authorities due to the refusal of its administration to close opposition groups: we have already written, how the leadership of "VKontakte" responded by the FSB to such a proposal .
In addition, recently the founder of the social network "VKontakte" Pavel Durov posted on his Twitter microblog a summons from the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office, where he was ordered to come to testify about the opposition groups "VKontakte", but he could not appear, because he did not have time to read ... Soon after that, he sent a letter to the Lenta editorial office explaining his attitude to the situation.
There, Durov, in particular, pointed out that if the service wants to preserve the domestic Internet industry, then requests to block the opposition are not applicable, including because this means giving a head start to competitors, but he is not going to become an "icon of liberalism" and considers "talk of voting , elections, rallies and civil position<...>a form of mass entertainment, along with football discussions and a game of Happy Farmer. "
Perhaps the panic began after rumors appeared that a new bill was prepared in Russia, obliging to block websites (in a single base Internet threats will also include sites "promoting the use, manufacture, sale of narcotic drugs" and "extremist materials") at the request of the regulatory authorities.
League safe internet Together with business and government officials, she prepared a bill obliging operators to block sites with illegal content. The project has a good goal - the fight against child pornography, but can lead to the emergence of full-fledged Internet censorship.
However, the bill it comes not only about sites with child porn - sites that "promote the use, manufacture, sale of narcotic drugs" and "extremist materials" will also be included in the unified database of Internet threats. Operators will be obliged to block such sites "on the basis of a decision federal body, which carries out the functions of oversight in the field of communications on the inclusion of the site in a single database of Internet threats, that is, Roskomnadzor.
The league starts its fight against child porn with Yandex. The search engine refuses to remove the corresponding images and links from the search results, explains Davydov: “We contacted Yandex with a request to filter such content, but the company refused, citing the fact that there is no corresponding law in Russia.”
We managed to agree with the search engine, but the social network "In contact with" she herself pledged to regularly clean the content, and the Mail.ru pages are moderated by special people.
Last weekend, VKontakte users vigorously discussed the closure of the social network.
The cause of the panic was a letter posted on his wall by one of the users of the social network. He wrote that on Monday, VKontakte will be completely deleted, and all user data will become publicly available. “Therefore, all users of this social network are advised to place such a“ privacy notice ”on their pages ... This communiqué notifies VKontakte that disclosure, copying, distribution of my personal information or any other illegal actions in relation to my profile on the social network are strictly prohibited, "- wrote one of the users.
End of VKontakte
After that, the mass distribution of the message on the social network began with the hashtags # ReturnDurov # vk_zhivi # VkNeStanet.
Many argue that this is all a lie and someone's stupid joke. Moreover, such messages about the closure of the network have been circulating for several years. In addition, according to users, VKontakte is a profitable project, so it will not be closed.
Popularity of VKontakte
VKontakte is the most popular social network in Russia. Its monthly audience in March 2015 amounted to 53 million 600 thousand people. In second place are Odnoklassniki (38 million 700 thousand users), in third place is Facebook with 23 million 700 thousand users, and in fourth place is Moi Mir (23 million 700 thousand people).
They appeared in Krasnodar and quickly spread in specific circles. The story is as follows: elections to the State Duma were held and one beloved party did not like the way "fair" elections were covered in social networks. On Channel One they tell one thing, and in VKontakte they honestly write about cases of arbitrariness.
Is it true that Vkontakte will be closed?
Well, work has begun to curb unnecessary activity. Under the pretext of fighting piracy, they will first close the audio recordings, then take away the video, then start blocking groups and public places under the pretext of fighting extremism and child suicide. By the fall of 2017, little will remain of VK. The final closure of Vkontakte should take place before the presidential elections, that is, by 2018.
Experts were skeptical about the news. The fact is that Pavel Durov, with whom the special services could not agree on the closure of opposition groups, left the company long ago and now Vkontakte is controlled by a pro-government oligarch, so no one - everything will be blocked quickly and quietly. Secondly, there are much more Vkontakte users than citizens who go to the polls, and the closure of the social network can turn into really massive discontent.
Vk will be closed for Ukrainians
The Ukrainian authorities believe that the Russian social network Vkontakte threatens the country's security. The arguments are simple and logical: Ukrainians are spreading dossiers on themselves, and they are stored on the territory of another state, which the Ukrainian authorities consider hostile. Do you need to solve the problem? Necessary! Vkontakte in Ukraine will be closed. Sooner or later, it will happen.
Is it true that VKontakte will be closed on Monday?
No it is not true. The blow will be delivered at the most unexpected and inopportune moment, when the contacts will sleep peacefully. Woke up, lo and behold: and Vkontakte bye-bye. Where to upload your shit photos? Where to write all that nonsense with which the Contact has been filled for many years? Can you imagine the drama? The heart in a contactee may not stand it.
Vkontakte has already been closed in Ukraine
On April 28, 2017, the National Security and Defense Council decided to block Vkontakte on the territory of Ukraine. Poroshenko signed the decree. The document prescribes blocking access to VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Mail.Ru and Yandex. Thus, Ukrainian contacts go to the forest.
Vkontakte secrets
A selection of curious facts about your favorite social network:
- Did you know that there are about but none of them give a 100% guarantee? Vkontakte is invincible!
- It gets harder every year. Why do you think? The answer will surprise you.
- Did you know that only thanks to this the social network makes us happy stable work and high performance... If the Vkontakte servers were on Windows, the social network would have long been polluted with viruses and would have crashed in a day.
- Experts tried
- The most popular adult video in VKontakte is from Maria Evdokimova.
- At her aunt, She describes what kind of torment she had to go through before the dumb VK admins restored her access. Shock!
- What will happen if you choose a password for someone else's Vkontakte page and log in? They will solder 2 articles of the Criminal Code at once and give a two-piece.
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German Klimenko laughed at the ridiculous spam attack on users of the popular Russian social network
March 6, 2017 could have become a day of mourning for users of the popular Russian social network VKontakte (since the end of February, a message has been circulating on the resource about its imminent blocking), but the next closure of the site was not destined to happen. Realnoe Vremya decided to investigate the situation and collected five facts about the problems of the popular social network.
Why won't March 6 be a "day of mourning"?
Since the end of February, a message has been circulating on the VKontakte social network about the imminent closure of the resource, and on the eve of the publication with the same content, spammers fasted at a rate of once a minute. In the test of the post, a specific closing date is called - March 6, 2017 - and the person in charge who made an official statement is Herman Klimenko, who, according to the authors of the message, is the press secretary of VK (in fact, Klimenko is an advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on the Internet).
German Klimenko has already commented on the situation to the press, saying that everyone is openly laughing at this message, and he is not a press secretary for the social network, which, by the way, will not be closed.
Note that even such a clumsy presentation of the message could cause a small surge of panic and increased attention to the news about the closure of the resource. At the same time, users of the social network were frightened by the fact that after blocking VK, their personal information will be in the public domain, and in order to avoid this, they need to copy this message to their wall.
German Klimenko has already commented on the situation to the press, saying that everyone is openly laughing at this message, and he is not a press secretary for the social network, which, by the way, will not be closed. Photo rosbalt.ru
Accidents in VK data centers and regular failures
Rumors about the upcoming closure of VK were notably fueled by a large-scale disruption in the social network that occurred at the beginning of this week and lasted for several hours. But it is worth noting that VKontakte, like any other resource, is at risk of being inaccessible for a number of technical reasons.
In general, in the history of "VK" there are several major failures in work. One of the most notable happened on July 25, 2010: the site remained unavailable for more than four hours due to a power outage in the data center. Another failure took place on July 27, 2014: then, as a result of an accident in one of the data centers, the site was also inaccessible to users.
On August 4, 2015, the VKontakte website remained unavailable for more than two hours. According to the company's press service, the cause of the problem was a physical break in the cable connecting the data centers. It was later reported that the cause of the failure was "a fatal coincidence of a number of circumstances." The increasing incidence of VKontakte's unavailability led to the popularization of the hashtag # vkzhivi on Twitter.
Is Pavel Durov to blame for everything?
In addition to the hashtag, the opinion spread among users that regular failures began exactly after Pavel Durov left the company. On April 1, 2014, on his VKontakte page, Durov announced that he was leaving the post of CEO of the company.
In his address, the creator of the social network claimed that in 2013 his freedom of action as the CEO of VKontakte was greatly reduced. He complained that the principles underlying the social network had become more and more difficult to defend and that formal positions in the current conditions were not interesting to him. Experts are sure that in this way Durov hinted at serious pressure from the security forces, demanding the closure of the opposition VK groups, censorship and access to personal data of users.
Durov sold his shares to the famous media manager and former CEO of MegaFon Ivan Tavrin, and the entire social network was taken over by Mail.Ru Group.
The opinion spread among users that regular interruptions in work began exactly after Pavel Durov left the company. Photo aif.by
Not the first "closure" in 10 years of the existence of the social network
The upcoming "closure" of "VKontakte" will not be the first and obviously not the last in the history of the social network. In 2009, the resource was supposed to be closed by a court decision; in March 2012, Pavel Durov himself allegedly stated that "his brainchild will stop working, since it has become too difficult to manage the site."
In the open spaces of VK there is even a thematic group called “Maybe it’s true, maybe not ... VKontakte will be closed”, in which, once a year or half a year, panic messages appear that the social network will be closed.
A hotbed of fakes
VKontakte is a fairly large-scale hotbed of fake news, not only about its closure. Like any social network, fictional stories of varying degrees are disseminated through VK, which, sometimes without preliminary verification, get into the media and are perceived by the population as verified facts.
Similar cases periodically occur in the Tatarstan press: literally last year, a local newspaper spread the news that during a fire at one of the industrial facilities of the Republic of Tatarstan, a huge piece of concrete ceiling flew away from an explosion towards the penal colony and, when it fell, demolished a watch tower with a machine gunner. broke through the fence and the restricted area, and the prisoners allegedly fled wherever they looked.
You've probably already heard that today you can push through information about almost any person through social networks , and especially through VKontakte. Moreover, very often for this it is not at all necessary to be registered in it. It is enough to type the last name, first name and city of residence the right person in a search engine and that's it.
I will not go into detail about why this is bad (whoever wants to, he will read the article I have written on this subject on the protection of a VKontakte account), but I will focus on how to make life a little more difficult for curious people.
How to close your page in contact from search engines? (Yandex, Google, etc.)
In the right upper corner click on the avatar. We select the item " Settings».
We select the tab " Privacy". Scroll down to the block " Other". Opposite the line "Who can see my page on the Internet" set the value "".
If you have an active old VKontakte design
We go to the section " My settings", Tab" Privacy"And opposite the very bottom line" Who can see my page on the Internet "set the value" Only for VKontakte users».
To check if you did everything correctly, do the following. Select from the menu " My page", Then click on" Log off».
After that, a message like this should appear. " The page is available only to authorized users».
How to close your VKontakte page from other users?
You can close the entire page as a whole, or some part of it from VKontakte participants can be done in the same way - by going to the settings section, the “ Privacy"And setting the settings properly. (Most often, the meaning " Only me"). Each item is described in detail, so what is responsible for - you will figure it out.
