Important friends in VK: the principle of definition and other subtleties

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 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:

1. Communicate as often as possible.
2. Fill him with likes and comments.
3. 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).

How to influence the list?

• Knowing what important friends in VK depend on, you can easily participate in the formation of this list. Based on the principle of activity, start actively managing the desired page - be generous with likes and reposts, add a couple of playlists from there, watch a video, send a message, comment on photos. Visit your profile several times a day. Literally, a couple of days - and you will see, the page will rise to your personal top.
• If you have the opposite problem - you need to remove someone from your Important ones, again, let's remember how important VKontakte friends are formed. Based on the principle of regular interaction, contact should be reduced to a minus level. This means - forget about this profile. Do not visit it, do not mark it, do not respond to entries. Complete ignoring for 3-5 days is guaranteed to reduce your account’s position. If you need to remove someone quickly, add them to the Blacklist for a couple of hours and then return them. Also, it would be a good idea to unsubscribe from his news - go to his profile, click on the three dots under the avatar and select “Hide news”. To be sure, select a couple of objects and turn all your attention to them. You'll see, the appearance of the top of your contact list will quickly change.
• Let’s also consider a situation where you yourself are on someone’s list of Important People and want to get out of there. Let’s remember what important friends depend on in VK, and let’s resort to the actions mentioned above. The same steps will help - ignoring, temporary blocking and hiding news.

Why did important friends in VK change?

The top 5 important friends are formed based on the principle of demonstrated interest: the more interesting a user is to you in terms of views, likes, correspondence and reposts, the more likely he is to be in first position. Why did important friends get lost on VK?

If you stop contacting one of the five for a while, the algorithm reacts by lowering his position.

The owner of an account with whom you hardly communicate can also become a leader if you actively evaluate his photos and posts. A recently added profile can also dilute an already established list. By default, he is among important friends for some time, but in the absence of communication, he goes downhill.

Who are important friends?

This is a certain category of your contacts with whom you interact most actively. The list is also replenished in the opposite way - if other profiles, for their part, regularly contact yours.

Activity means any means of interaction: likes, comments, reposts, watching videos, photos, listening to audio, and even simply visiting a page.

Answering how the list of important friends on VKontakte is formed, we should also note that people with whom you have recently become friends are included here.

This list is not designated in any way, it cannot be fixed, it is constantly changing. And also, the list is not mutual, that is, if a person is considered Important, this does not mean at all that you are in a similar position on his page.

If you are wondering where you can see the “Special” category of your friends, just open your contacts list. The profiles in the first positions are those same people. By the way, they are the ones that are displayed in the “Friends” block on your start page. Although the same cannot be said about the same list on someone else’s page. So seeing important friends in another person's profile is quite problematic.

How to hide important friends on VK

Contact makes no exceptions for important friends, so privacy settings apply to them as well. You can hide this category of people by digging into the Settings of any profile, regardless of the version you are using (meaning full or mobile).

1. Log in to your personal account and go to the Settings section.
2. Select Privacy Settings.
3. Mark the desired user or even several in the “Who is visible in the list of friends and subscriptions” field.
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4. Check who can see those you choose to hide.
5. Save your changes.

Innovations in the social network force us to learn more in order to be aware of new features. We hope our article helped with this.

And finally: knowledge of functional new VK products is great, but real life outside of social networks is much cooler. Don't forget to remind yourself of this from time to time.

How to remove a person from the top

There is no button with which you can remove a friend from being important in VK. In order to lower your profile rankings, you will have to take certain actions - we will introduce you to 4 ways.

Remove from friend list

We have already talked about how important friends are identified in VK, and we clarified that those with whom you have just become friends fall into this category. However, if immediately after adding you do not begin to interact with the person in any of the listed ways, he will immediately leave it. In other words, to remove someone important, you will have to break off your friendship with him and then become friends again. It will look something like this:

• Go to the person’s profile on VK and click on the “Your Friends” button under the main avatar;

• Select the command “Remove from contacts”;

• Or delete it directly from your friends section - opposite each name there is a corresponding button;
• You wait 2-3 hours and perform the reverse manipulations, that is, add it to yourself again;
• Next, be careful - his page will hang in your top for some time, but if you are not active with him in any way, it will quickly leave there;
• In just a couple of days you will see that the person has been removed from the top of the list.
• Keep in mind that if you go to visit him, like him or contact him in any other way, all efforts to remove him will be in vain.

By the way, people see your contact list not only according to the “important to unimportant” principle. At the top of it there are also your mutual acquaintances, therefore, you can never be completely sure that the owner of the profile really follows the life of Ivan Ivanov. In other words, perhaps he is not an “important” friend to him at all, but simply a mutual acquaintance of yours. To check this, delete Ivanov from yourself and check the friend list of the original account in a couple of days.

Can be removed via blocking

To remove important people from VK, you can temporarily blacklist them or block the person. Don't worry, it will only last a couple of hours - the person shouldn't notice anything. Otherwise, chalk it up to a glitch on the part of the social network and quickly unban your friend.

How to blacklist a person?

• Click on the small round avatar in your account (top right);
• Select “Settings”;

• Go to the “Black List” tab;

• Press the “Add to Emergency” button;

• Find the page you need;
• Click the "Block" button.

After a couple of hours, you can remove the person from the ban - go to this section again and press the “Unblock” button. After this, the position of this profile in your friend list will greatly decrease. Of course, if you are not very active with her.

Remove by hiding news

This action will greatly lower the person's priority on your friend list. Just go to his VK profile, click on the three horizontal dots in the “Your friends” line and select “Hide news.”

Next, go to the “News” block and look for any post of the person in question. Click on the checkbox in the right corner of the entry and select the command “I’m not interested.”

This is how you can simply remove a user from the list of your important ones without any deletion or blocking.

Reduce activity

This path is the longest, but the most effective. You just need to stop contacting this profile. This means:

• No likes. To be on the safe side, you can even remove all your likes;
• Transitions to the page;
• Viewing photos or videos;
• Etc.

Instead, choose a couple of other friends and develop hyperactive attention to them. Perform the opposite actions: dialogues, reposts, likes, visits, comments - use the entire possible list of tools.

Add a couple of new friends to your contact list and show the system that you are interested in them. Thus, it is these few accounts that will become important in your list, and the real object of interest can be removed from there.