Shortening VKontakte links through the official service

History of registration in contact

Not everyone remembers how this procedure took place at the dawn of the formation of this social network. Then, in order to become a participant in the project, you had to receive an invitation that could only be sent by a registered user. This protected against a large number of fake pages, but for some potential users in the contact, registration was simply not available.

This restriction has been lifted today, and the site itself operates on the vk.com domain. There is nothing complicated about registration. All you need is internet access and a working phone number.

What to do if you can’t log into your VK page

“What should I do if I can’t log into my VKontakte page?” - ask users who are trying to log into their account, but nothing works. There are a number of reasons why this could happen.

Viruses

There are two options here:

1. Malware has stolen your username and password, and its owner has changed your account information.
2. Viruses replaced the main page of VKontakte with their own. This is easy to determine: look at the domain in the address bar of your browser. If it’s not vk.com, it’s obviously a substitution.

In such cases, it is recommended to download the free Dr.Web Cureit utility and check your computer with it. It will be able to detect malware and even substitution of the Hosts file.

New Member Registration Procedure

You need to visit the site and enter your first and last name in the appropriate fields located on the main page. After this, you can safely click the “Register” button. Then you just have to go through three steps and get your account activation code:

• Stage one. It involves finding classmates. After entering your school information, a list will be provided from which you can select the people you need. A feature worth noting here is that you can add them as friends even before final registration;
• Stage two. Similar to the first one, only classmates are being searched for. You can skip this step if you do not want to enter information;
• Stage three. At this stage, on the VKontakte social network, in order for further registration to be available to you, you need to enter your phone number. A free message will be sent to it, the body of which contains an activation code. After entering it in the appropriate field on the site, registration will be completely completed. To gain access to the site, enter only a real phone number!

Remember, registration in contact is free

! The SMS comes directly to your phone. If you receive a message asking you to send a response message to complete registration, then there is a virus on your computer. Clear it or try registering from another computer.

How to log in from someone else's computer?

So, you are on a long trip and you urgently need to write to a friend on VK. But as luck would have it, the phone died. But the hotel has a computer with free Internet access. What to do? How to open your profile and not save personal data? Follow our simple instructions.

Checkbox "someone else's computer"

If you are trying to log into VK from someone else's computer, the login with the password should not be saved in the browser files (in cookies); for this purpose, the developers have specially introduced a security function. We are talking about a small checkbox that needs to be checked before pressing the “Login” key.

So, you are logging into the VKontakte site from someone else’s computer: carry out the following algorithm:

• Enter login;
• Type the password;
• Under the password field you will find a small square with the inscription “Someone else's computer”;

• Check the box;
• After that, feel free to press the “Login” button and use your page.

If you logged into Contact from someone else’s computer this way, you don’t have to worry about the safety of your data - neither the browser nor the social network itself will remember the login and password for the page. The most important thing is to remember to log out correctly: click on the small avatar in the right corner of the monitor - the “Logout” button. And no simple clicking of the cross on the browser window or tab!

Anonymous login

All popular browsers contain a built-in anonymous surfing feature. If you enable this mode for the VKontakte social network before logging into my page from someone else’s computer, you can be 100% calm about the safety of your data. What does anonymous login do?

1. The browser will not save your browsing history;
2. Disables cookies (will not remember passwords or logins);
3. Hide activity in search engines;
4. Automatically deletes all temporary files.

Using Mozillla Firefox as an example, we will show how to log into Contact via login and password from someone else’s computer (PC); we will present 2 working methods at once:

• Open the browser and click on the button to call the Menu (under the cross in the right corner of the screen);

• Select the “New private window” command;

• Work on the page that opens.
• To open a private window, simply press the key combination Ctrl+Shift+P (note that in Google Chrome the combination will be different Ctrl+Shift+N).

Deleting login information

In a situation where you, knowing how to access your page from someone else’s computer in VKontakte, accidentally forgot to check the required box or enable anonymous surfing, do not rush to panic. Calmly complete all your tasks, log out of VK correctly, and then don’t forget to clear your cookies and browser cache.

Using Mozilla as an example, we will show how to do this:

• Go to “Menu”—“Settings”

• Select “Privacy and Security”;

• Scroll to the "Cookies and Site Data" section;

• Delete everything you can there (the rest of the Internet cafe users will only be grateful to you). Selective cleaning can be performed by clicking on the “Data Management” button;

• Below, find the “History” block - go inside and clear the cache.

• Ready.

Just in case you had to log into a page on the vkontakte ru website from someone else’s computer to your page, we recommend changing the password. This will almost certainly protect you from hacking, and will also provoke you to log out of the social network on all connected devices!

By following these simple rules, you will protect yourself and your data from hacking and data loss! So don't neglect them!

But if suddenly it was not possible to save the data, then pay attention to our article on the topic: “What to do if your page is hacked.” This will help you quickly restore access to your profile and get out of this situation without loss.

Linking the phone number of an already registered page to a new one

If during the registration process it is discovered that a contact page is already linked to your phone number, then a corresponding notification will inform you about this. You will have a choice: create a new page or go to the old one. On the previously registered page when you log in, a corresponding message about changing your phone number will appear. You can link to a new phone number or, after a day, re-specify the old one.

When you log in as a new user, you will receive brief instructions on the main functions and sections. In total, it will take you only 5-10 minutes to become a user of the largest Russian social network. And to protect your account from hacking, use an antivirus and firewall.

Before registration

If you are interested in how to translate VK into Russian when logging in, we will be happy to teach you this simple action:

From PC

• Go to the resource via the link: https://vk.com/;
• Scroll to the end of the page, at the bottom you will see the gray inscription “Language” and two preferred options.

• If your loved one is not among them, click “All languages”;

• A page will open with all available translations - find the one you need among them and click on it;
• The interface will instantly change - now you will use VK in Russian!

From mobile

If you are interested in how to change the language in VK to Russian from a smartphone, read our instructions below:

• In the application settings (neither before nor after authorization) there is no block dedicated to interface translation. But there is still a way out - you will have to change the Menu language in the settings of the phone itself.
• To do this, open the Settings section - Additional (or Basic) settings - Language and input.

• There, find the option you want and click on it.

All is ready. True, now, in addition to this application, absolutely all mobile services and applications will work in this form.

Precautions on VKontakte

Of course, many are concerned about the question of whether it is safe to use the new service. Despite the fact that an additional PIN code is used to enter the VK Pay wallet, it is still worth taking additional precautions.

In particular, after each payment or transfer of money to the balance of your VKontakte account, it is better to delete the linked bank card from your page. Hacker attacks on users are not uncommon. And if attackers manage to hack the PIN code from VK Pai, there is a danger of not only losing money on the card, but also being left with a negative balance.

The VK Pay payment system is a convenient innovation, primarily for sellers and buyers of VKontakte goods. However, thanks to this innovation, users also have many other excellent opportunities to make financial transactions without overpaying commissions. However, we must not forget about restrictions on transfer amounts and the protection of your personal data on the social network.

VK page settings

In order to configure the settings of the VK page, you must also click on the field with your name, photo and down arrow in the upper right corner.

In the drop-down menu we select “Settings”. It can be immediately noted that the section contains a sufficient number of options so that each user can adapt the page parameters to suit themselves. Advanced VK settings allow everyone to make their social network account comfortable and secure.

General

Here you can make changes to the display of menu items on the left. However, you cannot change some of them, such as “My Page”, “News”, “Messages” and “Friends”.

The page is customizable in terms of displaying and commenting on posts, automatically playing videos and GIF animations, hiding the gift block and tagging friends in photos.

The “Accessibility” item was created for people with disabilities who use a speech synthesizer for some account controls.

Further, in addition to private contact information in the form of phone number, email, page address, the item contains secret information about the password.

An interesting option is to change the short page address from a digital one to a more convenient and memorable one.

Safety

The option has an archive of activities and protects the page from hacking using an SMS code, a mobile application for generating codes, or a pre-printed list.

Privacy

Allows you to increase the confidentiality of the posted data, limit the circle of people who can find out information about you (list of friends, photos, list of groups, addresses, gifts, etc.) Since this section is important, let’s consider it in more detail.

Privacy contains subsections:

• my page,
• entries on the page,
• contact me,
• other.

By default, VKontakte sets general access settings, when information, photos, groups, etc. are visible to all users. However, at your discretion, you can restrict access by clicking on the “All users” line and selecting the option you need from the drop-down list. For example – “Only friends”, “Only me”, “Everything except...”, etc.

The remaining subsections are configured in the same way.

At the very end of the “Other” section, you can see how your account will look for a third-party user after all the privacy settings you have made.

Alerts

This section regulates notifications on the site, feedback, and events. You can choose the options that are important to you or completely turn off notifications.

When you click on the word “All” you can choose: “Disabled”, “Everyone” or leave “Important only”.

You can also configure alerts on your phone here, which will be sent via SMS notifications or email.

In addition to selecting the “Alerts” item in the settings menu, there is another way to quickly get to setting up alerts. Click on the bell image on the horizontal bar at the top of the site, where all notifications are now displayed. Under the bell it says “Notifications”, and to the right - “Settings”.

Black list

The section where you create a list of people with whom you would not like to communicate. Those on this list will not be able to message you, comment or view your page.

Choose who you want to block.

Application Settings

Everything is simple here - the sites and applications you have connected are displayed, but be careful, since each application has access to both your general (name, date of birth, etc.) and personal information.

Mobile services

This option allows you to receive, respond to personal messages and post posts on your wall via SMS. The service is paid. The tariffs of the main operators are given: Megafon, MTS, Tele2.

Payments and transfers

A section that allows you to connect additional paid features of VKontakte for conventional units - votes. This is an analogue of electronic money. You can use them to purchase a gift, stickers, or buy something in the game. To use, you must accept the terms of the license agreement. Refunds are not possible.

How to create a public page on VKontakte

Creating a public VKontakte page is very quick and easy. Follow the instructions below.

Log in to your account, go to the “Groups” section in the menu on the left, click on the “Create Community” button at the top:

A window will open with community options and a name field (you can later change it at any time):

The next step is to select the page type (the second option suits us) and agree to the VK rules:

All that remains is to specify the description, add a picture and the creation of the public in VK will be completed:

By default, the URL looks like this: https://vk.com/public777****, but you can change it to be short and memorable. Come up with options and choose one of those for which you will see the inscription “address not busy.” Category, of course, website, come up with a couple of sentences of description, indicate a link to your site and choose a founding date.

In the right column of the page you can display additional blocks:

• links;
• Events;
• discussions;
• Contact Information;
• photo album;
• audio recordings;
• video recordings;
• places;
• You can include comments if you wish.

To display a link to your site in the right column, add it:

To make your public page more attractive, upload an image. On the right below the image, there are 3 links to manage the community:

Page management - by clicking on the link, you can change all the settings that were described above.

Advertise a page – on this page you can set up a VK advertising campaign.

Page statistics – a report on public traffic is displayed here.

As you can see, creating a public page on VK is easy. It’s more difficult to promote it and then make money from advertising. You need to fill the page not with all sorts of rubbish, but with quality information. The principle, the more posts, the better, does not work here. When posting to the public, remember this. 2-5 quality posts a day are better than 20 meaningless ones.

Mobile app

In the case of a mobile application, we will not touch on the features of each resource, limiting ourselves to only the basic and most important nuances.

Classmates

The application of the network of the same name provides you with all the basic features, from viewing the news feed to editing information on the page. You should not have any difficulties during use, since the interface is as simplified as possible, especially when compared with the website.

In contact with

The official VK mobile application is significantly superior to OK.RU, providing significantly more features. At the same time, many users of the resource, using the application, may not visit the site at all, being completely satisfied.

In addition to the above, this application provides several additional features that are completely absent in the full version of the site. These include:

• Video calls;
• Stories.

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