Do you know why so many people want to know how to remove a person from important friends on VK? The fact is that this category includes only those contacts to which the user is most active. In other words, he regularly visits the pages of these particular people, gives them likes, comments on the news, and follows their lives. Moreover, this group of contacts is always located at the top of the friends list.
Do you want your new guy to see that you're still interested in your ex? Would you like the fact that the girl you secretly dream about will be aware of regular visits to her page? There can be many reasons, which is why the question “how to remove important friends on VKontakte” is always relevant.
In this article, we will tell you in detail how to do this, and also explain how, on the contrary, to raise a person to be important in VK, how the list is formed and how to view it from yourself and from another person.
How to remove a person from VK on a PC or phone
There are several effective ways to remove important VKontakte friends from the top of the list. Each method works and gives the expected result, but the implementation nuances are slightly different.
How to remove people on PC
First, let's look at how to remove an important friend from VK on the full version of the site using a computer. Use one of the following methods.
Showing activity
The simplest method to remove a person from the top positions on VK is to communicate more with other people on the social network. This technique is long and requires manual steps. In particular, you need to go to the pages of users you want to promote, write messages to them, leave comments, etc. In this way, an unnecessary person is gradually “squeezed out” from the list. In addition, you don’t need to communicate with “extra” people at all.
Hiding a friend's news
To remove people from VK as important, exclude any news alerts from the person from your feed. You don't have to give up news altogether, so use this option temporarily.
First way:
- go to the page of the person you want to remove from the list of important friends in VK;
- Click on the three dots to enter the menu and select the Hide news section;
- leave the changes for a few days.
After lowering the level, you can restore it using the mentioned instructions and select the Show news section. We will talk about how to tag a person in groups, posts, etc. in another article.
If the method does not produce results, you can hide the news in another way:
- go to the News section in the VK main menu;
- on the right, go to the News tab and click on the “plus”;
- in the list that appears, click Add tab;
- Select one or more people and click Save.
After refreshing the page, find a post in the news from the person you want to remove from your important friends list. Click on the three dots and select This is not interesting to me, and then Don’t show news. To be more reliable, it is better to use the two methods discussed above.
Blocking
To change the location of important friends on the list in VK and remove some people from this list, use the black list. The idea is to temporarily remove the person from your friend category. To temporarily end a friendship, follow these steps:
- enter the main menu of the site and go to the Settings section;
- click on the Add to blacklist button;
- insert the person’s ID into the special field;
- click the Block button, which is located on the right side;
- wait a few hours and unblock the user again by adding him as a friend.
This method is very risky, so it is recommended to use it in extreme cases (if, of course, you value your friendship with the person).
Temporary deletion
To remove people from the category of important friends, you can temporarily remove them from your friends list. For this:
- enter the list of friends;
- find the profile you need;
- click on the ellipsis and select the Unfriend section;
- Click on the Cancel button that appears next to it and refresh the page.
After performing these actions, a comrade can drop many positions. At the same time, the owner of the page also loses his place in the ranking of the user he omitted.
Please note that the order of people does not change immediately, but after 2-3 hours (sometimes more) after performing these manipulations. A person can fall to the middle or even to the very bottom of the list.
How to remove people from your phone
The same methods as discussed above work here. Let's briefly look at their features:
- Hiding news. Among the rest, find the news of the friend you plan to hide, and click on the Hide source news link.
- Stop communicating. Ignore any messages and updates from the user, do not respond to SMS and do nothing on his page. At the same time, be active with other people.
- Unfriend. Enter the list of friends, select the required profile and click under the photo in the “Your friends” section. Next, select Remove from friends. Log in to the subject's page and accept the application.
These actions allow you to remove people from the list and lower them to lower positions.
How to view the list of important
So, you know how to remove profiles from your top contact list, and now let’s talk about how to see a friend’s important VK friends. Of course, by default, we start from the statement that he did not try to remove anyone from this category. Well, that is, we are talking about the situation “how the fox tried to deceive the fox.”
So, it’s easy and simple to see someone’s important friends on VK through a computer and phone:
- Go to their profile;
- Click on the “Friends” block to go to the full version of the section;
- The top ones on the list are the important ones.
Keep in mind that your mutual friends are also there, as well as those newly added to the list.
That's all, now you will always be able to exchange important people in VK for others, and you will never get burned. Now the task of “getting the person out of there” is not unsolvable for you. Be smart and don't put too much faith in your investigations. Remember, the fact that a profile is listed in the top does not mean that the object of your interest is actively following the life of its owner. It is quite possible that the opposite is true.
How is the list of important ones formed?
To work correctly with this function, it is important to understand what important friends in VKontakte mean. We are talking about users whose pages are added to a special list of friends and have the highest priority. In other words, a person most often communicates with these people, goes to their page and performs certain actions. Knowing how the list is formed, you can raise the ratings of some people and lower others. The activity of the user located “on the other side” of VK is no less important.
The way for the lazy is to do nothing
If one of your friends was constantly in the field of activity, and you liked his photos and publications, viewed the news, regularly visited the page, then the smart mechanism of the social network, which analyzes all the data, decided to make your task easier and assigned the user to top list of friends.
Accordingly, you can remove a person from your important friends list if you change the frequency and level of your interest in his page.
You need to completely ignore the user: don’t look at photos, don’t like, don’t visit the account, don’t comment on anything or write messages. The method is not fast, but that’s why it’s lazy. After a certain time, the person will disappear from being an important person. The VKontakte analyzer will decide that you are more interested in other profiles, from which it will compile an updated list. By the way, if you pay increased attention to other pages, this will speed up the process.
Is it possible to determine the order of important friends
It is known that those people with whom various contacts are most often made through VK are placed first. In addition, the arrangement is affected by many factors, including the activity of correspondence, likes, comments, entering the page, etc. The exact principle of how important friends are formed in VK is known only to developers. As a result, social network members with the greatest authority rise to the very top of the tab and remain there until they lose their status.
Friends online
If we are talking about a list of friends who are online, it is sorted by the “importance” of the friend, that is, there is no difference in the first case, except that the list will show only those friends who are online at the moment time.
The formation of a list of friends in the “Online Friends” window is probably formed in a random order - with each update the list may completely change. We dare to assume that this was done for a reason, but so that when you see one of your old acquaintances, you decide to write to him.
How to add a person to the list
Users are often interested in how to raise a person to the important category in VK. It's not difficult to do this. It is enough to show maximum activity in relation to the subject of interest - communicate with him, often log into his page, like, write on the wall, give gifts, etc. The more interaction, the higher the chances of adding the right people to the list of important comrades.
Interestingly, after adding a friend, he immediately gets into the TOP 5, but if there is no interaction, he drops to the bottom of the list. In other words, adding someone to VK as an important friend and leaving them there is possible only through communication. This cannot be done artificially.
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Who are important friends?
These are the users from your VK contact list with whom you communicate most actively. Moreover, “communication” means any interaction with a person’s profile: viewing photos, videos, music, likes, reposts, comments, dialogues, even simple transitions to a page.
Even if you are not interested in a person, their page can still get into your top. It is enough for the author to start showing interest in you - posting on the wall, liking, writing messages.
Newly added people as friends also fall into this category, but for a very short period of time. If the algorithm understands that the new person is not interesting to you, his page will quickly lose its position.
Important contacts are located at the top of the list and are also displayed in the “Friends” block on the VK user’s start page.
Is it possible to hide the list of important friends
Now you know how important friends are identified in VK, how to add them and remove them from the list if necessary. But there are situations when you need to hide this list from strangers. To do this you need to use the hide function.
From PC:
- go to settings and click Privacy;
- find the line where it says, Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions;
- press the button and uncheck the checkbox for the people for whom you want to remove the list;
- save changes.
From phone:
- enter the menu and settings;
- go to the Privacy section and look for the same line as in the PC;
- unmark those people who should not see the list;
- save.
The hiding limit is 30 people, so keep this in mind.
Removal
The easiest and fastest way would be to simply delete it. But don't worry, it won't last forever. Just go to your friends and remove the one you want to move below. After this, the “Cancel” button will appear, which you will immediately need to click on.
After that, refresh the page and you will see that this friend is much shorter than he was originally. And the most important thing is that everything went painlessly. After this procedure, your friend may already be in 5th place, or maybe 12th, or maybe even thirtieth.
But let's not forget one BUT. After such manipulations, not only will your friend drop to the lower positions, but you will also drop down on his list. If this is not important to you, then go for it!
How to change important friends in VK
The principle of sorting important friends in VK takes into account how interesting the account is for you, depends on the frequency of visits, the activity of correspondence and the rating of photos and posts. It is logical that in order to make changes to the list, you need to improve or reduce the indicated indicators for a specific person.
How to add a person to important friends on VKontakte
We haven’t communicated with a close friend who lives in another city for a long time, and as a result, he ended up “overboard” from the list of important people in VK. There are two ways to raise a friend in the ranking.
The long-term method is to improve the indicators listed above:
- Communicate as often as possible.
- Fill him with likes and comments.
- Increase the number of visits to the desired account.
If you urgently need to add a profile to your list of important friends, there is a simple and quick life hack. In the article, we already said that recently added friends automatically take 3-4 positions in the rating, so why not take advantage of this?
- remove the desired page from friends, and after a couple of seconds add it again;
- remember who initiated the addition the first time. If you submitted the application, the other user will not even know about the manipulation (the standard notification will not be received).
Is it possible to change the order?
After everything has become clear about sorting VKontakte friends, we can talk about whether this order can be changed. Unfortunately, the developers of the social network did not provide this function, so you cannot change the order of friends yourself.
If you want to keep someone close to you at the top of your friends list, try to communicate with them more. Otherwise, keep communication to a minimum. However, do not forget that no social networks can replace real communication with friends and people close to you!
I think it is useful for many users to know by what principle the list of VKontakte friends is formed
in 2021.
Once upon a time, everything was very simple: whoever had a higher rating was at the very beginning of the list. But times have changed, the rating was canceled, and now friends are sorted
happens differently.
First of all, go to the “My Friends” section and deal with the list of friends on your page:
Who do we see first on our friends list? That's right, those with whom we communicate most.
The principle of sorting the list of friends: the first will be those friends with whom you most often correspond, but also those whose pages you constantly view, like, and comment on posts.
Thus, the first friend can be one with whom you may not have communicated at all, but always follow his page and (or) be active on it.
But there is a small nuance: users whom you recently added as friends are initially displayed above the rest (usually occupying 5-10 positions in the list). This is done so that you do not lose sight of them.
Second way
The second way to remove a person from your important friends on VKontakte solves the problem radically. To do this, you just need to remove it. If there is a need to save contacts, then add the person again. The user will not receive notifications about your actions, and he will not know anything, and will be left off your list.
Keep in mind that if you continue to be active with the user you want to remove from important, soon his rating will increase and he will again take his place in the list. And remember: although it is useful to know how to remove unwanted users from important VKontakte friends, the order of friends in reality is much more important than the order of friends on the social network.
How are important friends determined in VK?
There is a difference between displaying your own list and the order in which others' friends are displayed when you log into someone else's account.
In the first case, important VK friends are determined using a special social network algorithm that calculates how much attention is paid to a specific page among friends. The frequency and intensity of communication, the number of rated or commented posts, reposts, and the frequency of profile visits are taken into account. In general, the main criterion is the user’s interest in the profile: the more attention is paid to it, the higher the person will be in the ranking. Recently added pages also appear here for the first time. As a rule, they push down profiles that previously occupied 3-4 positions. The VKontakte developers came up with this move so that you don’t forget about your new friend and communicate.
If you decide to look at friends of another VKontakte profile, the list will be compiled based on completely different considerations. You will be in first place. It will put the pages of mutual friends in the top in the order in which their profiles are displayed on you. If there are none, after your account the pages will appear seemingly randomly. In fact, they are sorted by the date of registration on the social network.
How to remove important friends on VKontakte on your phone?
The method is similar to the previous one. Through the phone we go to a friend’s page. Click on “Your Friends”. Select the “Hide news” item.
Previously, a rating system was introduced from the social network VKontakte and in the first places in the list of your friends were users with a high rating. Today, sorting friends happens in a completely different way. At the very top, the people with whom you exchange messages and leave comments the most, that is, the people with whom you show some activity. More activity, higher on the friends list.
After being added, new friends are also in the top ten of users, as if reminding them of their existence, and over time they move down.
