Vkontakte is a pretty handy feature for hiding friends. You can remove from the visibility of a person, and none of the visitors will not be able to learn about your friendship. This feature is very useful if you do not want someone to know who is in your friends, as sometimes it can badly affect the reputation. About what are hidden friends, how to make them and what are the nuances in this function, read the article.
How much can you hide friends Vkontakte
Hidden friends are the people that you actually have in your friends, but visitors of your page do not see them. This function is designed to ensure that outside visitors could not see that this or that person is in your friends.
If you do not want people to know about your friendship with the user, just hide him from the list by the method from this article.
Secret friends can do all the things that ordinary friends do, but they cannot be seen on the list when visiting a page.
It is noteworthy that with this person you will not be displayed in the profile either. The system will not betray you, and only you will know about this friendship.
The maximum possible number of hidden friends in this social network is exactly 30 people. Strange restriction, but it is. Alas, if you have more than 30, you will not be able to remove more friends from prying eyes.
How to hide a friend through a computer
To hide a person, just open the page settings and do some manipulations there. To do this, follow the following algorithm:
- Click on your avatar at the top of the page on the right side, in the context menu that appears, select "Settings."
- In them, go to the "Privacy" tab, you can do this in the list of tabs on the right.
- After that, find the setting called "Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions" and click on the hyperlink opposite this setting.
- A dialog box opens, listing all of your friends in this account.
- In the list, highlight all those accounts that you want to hide.
- After selecting the hidden accounts agree with your actions by clicking on "Save Changes."
Now, the people you have noted will no longer appear on your friend list, although they are still them for you.
Set the desired settings via smartphone
Alas, it is impossible to do this in the official pocket application, as on any other unofficial current mobile client, such as Kete Mobile, VK mp3 mod, Polyglot, Night VC and so on. But there is a solution, you just need to go to the site vk.com with the full version of the site in the browser, to do this:
- Open any mobile browser, such as Yandex Browser, Opera, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and the like.
- Go to the website vk.com through this browser.
- In the browser settings, enable the page display in the full version, or "Desktop mode", "Full version of the site", "For PC" and so on, in each browser the function is indicated differently.
- The page should reload and take the form of a computer version. If this does not happen, then in the link, remove the letter "m" before vk, that is, not m.vk.com, but vk.com.
- Now, clicking on your avatar at the top right, select "Settings."
- In the settings in the "Privacy" tab there is a function "Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions", click on it.
- Now in the window that appears, select friends to hide and confirm this by clicking on "Save changes".
To return a person to the visible list, it is enough to do the same thing that you did to hide them, only in the dialog box at the end you need to uncheck the checkboxes and confirm the changes. Thus, you can adjust the list an infinite number of times, then adding, hiding users at any convenient time.
How to see the hidden friends of the user
If you wondered if the user has hidden friends - you can view them using special services. Such as //220vk.com or //igoos.net/vk2o/hidden and others ... There are a lot of them, but they work according to the same principle. They calculate the possibly removed friends by the algorithm and do not give an accurate result. That is, you will not be able to find out the information with a 100% chance, but there is still a chance for success. To use these services, follow these steps:
- open the page of the user whose friends you will be watching;
- copy the link to this account;
- go to the website of the service and paste the link to the user in the desired window;
- Confirm the information and the results will be with you.
