Modern technologies allowed a person to break down many barriers thanks to the Internet. Today, Internet networks are an integral part of our life, which makes it much easier. Ordering groceries at home, seeing loved ones thousands of kilometers away, discovering completely new information - all this becomes possible thanks to an Internet provider. And a huge place in this is occupied by social networks, which allow you to meet and communicate with other people without leaving your room.

"VKontakte" as a popular social network

In Belarus, the popularity of this network ensured it the first place among users, in Russia - the second, in Ukraine - the third, in Kazakhstan - the fifth and twenty-eighth in the whole world. Its daily audience numbers over 40 million people. Constantly improving, changing VK settings, functions, this network is not inferior to others and creates new opportunities for its users.

VK design update

On August 1, 2016, the VKontakte social network team completed the main work on the new design, which lasted more than a year and a half, and turned it on for a limited number of users in test mode. The 10% who agreed to test this update were pleasantly surprised, after which the new design was voluntarily displayed on all accounts. A lot has changed: VK settings, font, functions, general interface, etc.

Many bugs were also fixed, and VKontakte began to work faster. About 2,500 changes to the old design brought the VK team to a completely different, different from what it was in the last 10 years, look. Many were happy with the positive changes, but some did not accept the new design, and complaints fell on the VK team. But nevertheless, such a renewal was a step forward, and no one will return to what has become obsolete.

Where are the settings in the VK of the new design?

The settings in the new VK are not displayed on the left, as they were in previous versions. Anyone who paid attention to this must have suffered in their search. In the new design, VK settings can be opened as follows: on the upper blue panel in the right corner, the username and a thumbnail photo of the account are displayed, and next to it is a small light arrow. By clicking on it, after the section "My Page" and "Edit" you can find the necessary settings. There have been no significant changes in them. In the "General" menu, the "Page settings" column has been supplemented with the "Accessibility" item for people who need voice acting for some account controls. VK settings still give access to page security, privacy, notifications, blacklist, application settings, mobile services and payments.

There is no opportunity to switch to the old VKontakte design, which means that such a function is also not provided in the settings. The VK team promises to refine all update errors, if any are found. New design gave "VKontakte" new life and significantly increased the level of his work.

VKontakte has been created.
Let's get down to setting up the VKontakte page... Note an important point that there are two types of VKontakte pages: a personal page and a public page. The work of VKontakte begins with setting up a personal page.
, thanks to which each user can display or hide this or that information, or allow access to it to a certain circle of visitors to his page.
To complete the settings, you must log into your account by entering your username and password.

The screenshot shows how the page looks after registration. To make it look more attractive, you need to add a personal photo, which will further represent the user and serve as him. avatar... In order to add a photo, press “Add photo” (section A). After clicking, a window will open prompting you to select and upload an image (1). Next, click "Select file" - a computer explorer will open, allowing you to find and download the required image (2).

After loading the selected image, the thumbnail settings window opens. The thumbnail will represent the identity of the account owner throughout the VKontakte network, or rather, will be used in news, private messages and comments. Moving the corners of the image, we achieve the desired size.

After adjusting the image and thumbnail, first of all, we will make the settings from the item “ My settings», Which is located in the vertical panel on the left (section B). This section assumes more personal settings. Here, the owner can change the password, contact information, and also decides who and what material to allow access to, and who is even blacklisted.

In the "General" section

it is possible to configure the following parameters:

1. In "Additional services" you can select those tabs that will be displayed in the vertical panel on the left (section B). All bookmarks marked with checkboxes will be displayed in this area.

2. In "Change password" you can change the existing password. This procedure is recommended to be done periodically, in order to avoid hacking of the account by ill-wishers.

3. In the next paragraph, you can change your email.

4. In "Your phone number" you can change the phone previously linked to your account.

5. And in the last paragraph of this section there is an opportunity to give a more meaningful meaning to the link to your page. When registering, each account is assigned a personal identifier, it has a numbered form. At this point, the digital number can be changed to some name that represents the identity of the owner.
Come up with a name in advance, it is entered in Latin letters. If the name is available, the message "Borrow address ..." and your name will appear. We save the changes. After the changes, a link with your new name will be displayed in the browser address bar.

In the section "Privacy"

you can mark the categories of visitors who will be provided with this or that information on the page. This section is the most private and therefore everyone must decide for himself: who he allows access, and whom he restricts.

In the "Alerts" section

select which notifications and by what means the user wants to receive.

In the section "Black List"

In the section "Mobile services"

you can find out the conditions and choose operators that provide access to VKontakte from mobile devices.

In the section "Balance"

So, we have executed " My settings»(Private settings). We'll talk about more general page settings in the next article.

How to customize a page in contact, so that your account on this network has the look you want? - After all, each user has different goals, therefore, what may suit one person, the other simply does not need it.
Correctly be able to customize the page in contact, every user should be able to. And fill in correctly, too, should be able to. Indeed, when, people will immediately notice its correct design.

My task is to correctly explain to you in this article how to set up your Vkontakte page correctly and visually, and what opportunities each user has for this and necessary tools provided by this social network.

Setting up a Vkontakte page is easy!

To customize the page, go to the already familiar to you and many readers of this site in the "My Settings" menu. As shown in the picture below.

Here you will see the items that will help you set up your contact page correctly. And you will no longer have such a question - how to set up a contact.

The main menu items are located in this tab, and you will need to get to know them better. These are the points:

1. General
2. Privacy
3. Alerts
4. Black list
5. Mobile services
6. Balance

Now let's take a closer look at all the features of the buttons listed above, what they do and how they work.


Right customize the page in contact can anyone who reads how it is done here.

Learn how to set up a contact page correctly!

Now let's take a closer look at the settings of your online contact page. Let's start in order, of course.

Why is it necessary to set up in contact personal settings? Why do I need to set up pages correctly in contact? And there are many more reasons why.

And so, in order, let's move forward.

General setting - Helps to enable or disable some services settings in contact. These are settings such as:

a) additional services

b) setting up your wall on the Vkontakte network

c) changing the password

d) change your name

e) provide an email address

f) enter the number mobile phone

g) view the security history of your page

h) change the address of your Vkontakte page

i) make regional settings, such as language

j) make settings appearance- using the enlarged fonts feature

Setting "Privacy" - In this setting, the access rights to your page in the contact are changed. And you can change the access rights to individual fragments of your page.

This includes features such as viewing and commenting on your photos, posting on your wall, and many more. For more details, see the figure

Then comes the setting "Alerts" - In it, you can set up notifications on the site that will come to your email. There is also a notification function using the phone. In this case, you will receive an SMS. You can enable sound functions that you will hear when you receive a message from users of the Vkontakte network.

Then comes the setting in contact "Blacklist" - Here you can enter either a name or a link to the page of an unwanted user of this social network.


"Mobile services" - This is an opportunity to use your mobile phone to enter the Vkontakte website. More details about this, we will definitely talk with you in our next articles.

"Balance" - This is the state of your account, which is calculated by votes. You can get votes in a contact by paying for their accrual in the contact network.

I think that by reading this article, you have learned on your own customize the page in contact .

This article will help you customize your page so that your information is available only to those people who are trusted by you.

What does my VKontakte profile look like?

With the help of the privacy settings, you can independently design the sections of your profile as you want. To do this, you need to go to "Settings", "Privacy". Basic information can be shown. This will help friends and acquaintances to find you, find out the date of birth, etc. For children, of course, it is advisable not to disclose all information about themselves. It is not difficult to find and add friends and classmates, visits of strangers to your page are useless.

Who should I show photos in which you have been tagged?

An important point is to decide who to show the photos or videos in which you have been tagged. It's easier with photos, you can change the privacy for them at any time, but with videos it's a little different. You can of course change the privacy, but if this video is online for a while, many users will be able to view the recording during this period. So it is better to initially restrict access to the video and allow viewing to a certain circle of people. You can open access at any time.

For which sections can I open access?

Open access to the lists of groups and gifts most likely will not harm you. What about the other functions?

1. If you open access to other people's records on your page, your personal information may become known to many, which is not always good.

2. Allowing everyone to leave notes on your wall threatens to one day receive negative information, in a word, garbage.

3. You can not restrict the receipt of messages from someone, invitations to groups, but the consequences of this will be unlimited receipt of spam and invitations to unnecessary groups and clubs.

How to look at your profile from the outside?

After customizing your page, you can see how it looks and how others will see it. This is possible using the button "See how other users see your page". Thus, you can correct everything and avoid accidentally disclosing information that you do not want to show to anyone.

Some information about the "Black List"

At any time, you can prevent the user from writing messages and comments to you if this person does not suit you as an interlocutor. This is done very simply using the "Settings", "Black List" function.

You yourself set the restrictions on your page. Remember to be careful when working with privacy features to avoid negative consequences.

You can flexibly customize the visibility parameters of the main elements that you publish in your profile. At the same time, the restriction can be set both for all users at once, and for certain groups of people.

Using the privacy settings, you can completely hide both the materials on your page, and generally restrict the ability to contact you.

Anonymizers are used to access blocked sites (see). What is it about? Imagine a situation when your social networks are blocked at work. In that case, it will come in very handy.

Now I will show you how to log in through the Chameleon anonymizer.

As you know, on the page of any user it is shown when he last logged into VK. Many people would like to hide this information. Is there such a possibility?

Let's figure it out how to hide the time of the last visit to Vkontakte.

We continue to get acquainted with the terminology and abbreviations used in the social network. You can find past lessons at the links:

Today is a new term. Let's figure it out what is emergency in VK.

We have already hidden personal information from other users:

Now let's talk about pictures. Is it possible to upload an image (see), and make it inaccessible to other users? Now let's try to figure it out how to hide VKontakte photos.

Previously, you had the opportunity to flexibly control access to your VKontakte wall. You could hide it completely (see), or give access to viewing to selected users.

After updating VK, the situation has changed. Now I will show you how to open a wall in VK.

Recent times, I see a lot of discussions on the topic of visiting the VKontakte social network, in the absence of an Internet connection. I don't know where it came from, but a fairly large number of people leave hopes of being able to log into VK, even in the absence of the Internet.

Let's see if this is real.

On your VKontakte page, you can publish almost any information. Upload photos (see), upload videos (see), indicate your personal data, etc.

But what if you do not want all this data to be available for viewing by other people? They need to be hidden.

Vkontakte offers hide page using privacy settings. Now I will show you how it works.

One of the main elements of your VKontakte account is the wall. Here you can post records, photos and videos (see), as well as any other information.

But quite often it becomes necessary to hide the wall in VK so that your materials are not available for viewing by other users. How to achieve this result?

Not all users like to chat with other people on VKontakte. They deliberately try to isolate themselves from other members of the social network, and do not want to receive private messages.

If you are the creator or administrator of the VKontakte group, then the link to your profile is published in the appropriate section. So any user who has entered the community will be able to see the contacts of the administration.

Let's imagine a situation. You subscribed to some VKontakte group (see). It will immediately appear in the "My Groups" list, and will be available for viewing by other users. But what if you want to hide your participation in it?

You can publish any information on your VKontakte wall - simple posts, photos and videos (see). By default, all this is available for viewing by other users. But what if you want to restrict access to them?

Now I will show you how can I hide posts on the VKontakte wall... In general, let's talk about hiding your wall.

Many users restrict access to viewing their photos using. Or, such an option is possible when the albums are not published on the page - you simply do not know how to enter them (see).

Every time you go to your VKontakte page, the status "Online" is automatically set to you. Thanks to this, other users always know that you are online (see). Or the last time you were active.

Surely each of us communicates with other users, within the framework of the VKontakte social network. Some have more dialogues, some less. But what if you suddenly needed to delete all dialogs at once?

If you pay attention, you will notice that when you visit the VKontakte social network, advertising banners are displayed. Many users do not like this, and they are looking for a solution that would help them remove advertisements in contact.

There is another option. You could have picked up an adware virus (see). Now, when visiting a social network, intrusive windows pop up in different parts of the browser.

You can block other people's VKontakte pages. This is done in several ways. Now I will show you how they work.

Let's figure it out how to block a page in contact.

If you need block vkontakte friend, then you should use a special function. Now I will show you how it works.

If you are not indifferent to the virtual life of your friends, and you want to know who they add as friends, then now I will show you one way. With its help, you can easily see who your friend is sending applications to, and which of the users accepts them.

If you want your presence on the VKontakte social network to be hidden from friends and page visitors, then you can use a little trick. You will contact, and your status will be offline (see).

Now I will show you how to be invisible VKontakte from a computer or phone.

Quite often it turns out to be impossible to log in to the contact in the usual way. A common variant is that the system administrator at your work has blocked access to social networks. What should be done in this case?

You can use workarounds. Now I will show you how can you go to VK through an anonymizer or mirror.

The social network Vkontakte has tens of thousands (if not hundreds) of all kinds of communities, groups and public pages (see). Some of them are very helpful. Others don't. And in the third, you can find overtly prohibited materials. Such as porn, pyramid schemes, the sale of low-quality goods, and so on. How can you block such a group in contact?

As you know, on your page you can always see who is your friend (see). If you, for some reason, decided to hide some of them, then you can use the privacy settings.

Now I will show you how can I add to hidden friends in VK... Let's also talk about third-party services that promise to show, upon request, who the user has in hidden friends.

In the settings of your personal VKontakte page, there is a "Black List" section. It is needed so that users who bother you or interfere with you can no longer access your page. This limitation will allow you to exclude unwanted visitors.

So, how to add a person to the blacklist on VKontakte?