The social network Vkontakte has successfully consolidated its leading position not only among residents of Russia, but also in the countries of the former CIS. Now it allows registered users a huge number of opportunities: from a banal search for classmates to making money on the Internet.
The prepared material will help you understand what Contact is and why it is needed, how to properly activate your page and find new friends. We will also reveal a few secrets of free page promotion.
What is VKontakte and why is it needed?
VKontakte (Kontakte or VK) is a popular social network for communication. This platform is considered the Russian analogue of Facebook, where users create their own page, can interact with friends, publish video and audio recordings, photographs, rate materials posted by other people, create groups and communities.
The founder of the Russian-language social network VK is Pavel Durov. Now the platform is constantly being improved, new promotion tools are being added so that everyone can spend their leisure time comfortably. The site is available in 90 languages and is ranked 6th most popular in the world.
Brief history of creation
As mentioned earlier, Pavel Durov began developing the site together with his brother. The idea for the creation came to him when he realized that he wanted to keep in touch with friends from abroad. At that time, people corresponded only by email or simply called each other by phone. Therefore, it is not difficult to assume that such a platform was necessary at this time. And already in 2006, the social network Students.ru (the first name of VKontakte) began to exist. The first user signed up a few months later.
At first, the platform was closed, that is, you could register only by inviting friends. However, when VK began to gain popularity, the developers opened access to everyone. It is noteworthy that while Durov was at the helm, the site was protected from advertising and other paid functions.
What is better to choose
It is definitely impossible to answer the question of which is better a group or a public on VK, since first of all it depends on the goals of creation and how important it is for you to avoid VKontakte restrictions, which are likely to hinder actions in the public. Let's try to understand with actual examples when it is better to choose one or another type of community.
As described earlier in the article, globally subspecies are divided into three global variants.
Examples
Let's look at an example:
You are an aspiring web designer. And you came to the conclusion that creating a social page is a necessary step on the path to fame and becoming a specialist. The first question to ask yourself before clicking on “create a community” is: why do you need it on this social network?
At this stage, it is advisable to understand this goal in order to post and formalize the new community properly.
The main tasks are likely to be:
- you need to publish your new works, selections of works on the wall;
- You will probably need a block with goods to indicate cases and place work options;
- communication with clients through posts and comments;
- forming an audience, potential clients, developing a database.
So far, one thing is clear from these goals - the limited functionality of the public will not hinder development in the direction of a brand or expert personality. At the same time, since the story is clearly not about an event or meeting, the “event” option is eliminated.
The second question: how important is it that it can actually be found through a search engine? Considering the topic and goals, the answer will definitely be: very important. Therefore, the option with a closed or private wall will not definitely work, because posts from it will not appear in the news feed, and there will also be problems with the search engine.
And finally, one last question: where would you like your creation to be displayed? If you choose the first option, it will be displayed in the “personal information” block at the very end, which will not help your promotion in any way. In addition, for many this block is hidden from prying eyes. If a public is selected, it will be displayed in “interesting pages” under “friends”, where everyone can easily find it, and maybe even subscribe or order a service.
Conclusion: if you are a brand or specialist gaining an audience, it is better to choose a personal page. Also, this option is perfect if you are the owner of an online store that sells goods not through a social network, and the public serves only for promotion.
A specific example is “Only for You” - the project specializes in selling beauty products through the website, and has profiles on the most popular social networks for brand advertising. These pages show subscribers that there are people behind the products, bring the audience closer to the seller, which means promotion and increased sales.
How to register on VK with a phone number
In 2012, the creators of VK canceled the registration of new users using email and introduced the linking of the number to the registered page. This procedure for creating a page has been preserved to this day.
Go to the vk.com page, fill in the fields: First name, Last name, date of birth and click on the “ Continue registration ” button:
Next, select the country, write your mobile phone number, accept the terms and click on the “ Get code ” button:
Enter the received code from SMS in the field and click on the “ Send ” button:
After sending the code via SMS, you will be asked to create a password to log in. Next, you need to log in: enter your number and password, click on the “ Login ” command.
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fake - A false page, the user either wants to seem like a different person, or just an impersonal page, created for advertising, PR, often overly bold comments can be observed from such fakes. (See: What is a fake VKontakte). phishing - Sites with login forms, similar to VKontakte, are made specifically to steal VK user data. Such sites are called phishing sites. flex - To flex - to show off, show off (with clothes, abilities). There is also another meaning, “do nothing”, “sway to the beat”, “dance”.
How to register on VK without a phone number
For those who want to create another account, there are several ways to register VK, where you can do without purchasing another phone number:
1. Provided that you have a Facebook page, you can register with Vk through Facebook. When registering, Facebook requests your email or phone number, so this bypass is very relevant:
2. The second option is services with free temporary phone numbers. We find sites on the Internet with free temporary phone numbers and try to register on VKontakte. The problem with these numbers is that the numbers are publicly available and the number could have already been used to register on VK. As an example, services: sms24.info, onlinesim.ru and there are quite a lot of such services.
Select a country, then select a phone number by clicking on it, after which a page with SMS texts from other users opens. We copy the selected number and paste it into the VK registration field; if the selected number has not been used, then your SMS with the code from Vk will also be included in this list of SMS texts:
All of these services operate on the same principle with minor differences. For example, on sms24.info you must first select a country:
Next, select a phone number:
We copy the phone number and look at your SMS in the SMS list, after entering it in VK:
3. By home phone. You can enter your landline phone number in the appropriate box instead of your mobile phone number. After which, the robot will automatically determine that sending an SMS to this number will not work, so it will simply call and dictate the code.
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selfie - Taking a photograph of yourself at arm's length and posting it on the Internet. signa - Photos like “I love you” on a piece of paper or on some part of the body, a girl can make a signa for a guy, for example writing a heart and his nickname on her chest, take a selfie. screen - A screenshot of a monitor or phone (See How to take a screenshot on VKontakte). smile - Graphic images of emotions in messages, the most commonly used are round yellow faces, which can depict laughter, crying, bewilderment, etc. spam - A large number of messages with advertising content, spam is one of the reasons for blocking (freezing) an account.
How to set up a page on VK (VK)
After completing the registration procedure, you will be presented with a half-empty page where you need to fill in the missing information so that friends and relatives can accurately determine that it is you.
In addition, there are basic profile settings, including adding a photo, indicating the city and country, filling out the line of interests, education, career, political views, worldview of the page owner, etc.:
Basic information is configured in the “ Edit ” section, which is located under the photo of the owner of the VK page. In the main settings, you can add photos, specify the country and city, fill out the line of interests, education, career, worldview of the page owner, etc. So, click on “ Edit ”:
On the right there is a list of categories that we configure one by one. Don’t forget to click the “ Save ” button after making changes in each section:
There are also technical settings. In the upper right corner, click on your avatar, then in the drop-down menu, click on “ Settings ”:
On the right is a list of categories where you can configure technical aspects of your Vkontakte account:
What settings to make is up to the owner of the Vk account to decide.
What does the ellipsis mean in different cases?
An ellipsis is a punctuation mark in a text. Depending on the language, it consists of three dots (Russian, English) or six (Chinese). Also, the ellipsis can be horizontal or vertical.
Terms of use
- When writing an ellipsis, it is separated from subsequent letters by a space. Moreover, it is adjacent to the closing word: she was... very beautiful.
- If the meaning of the ellipsis should be adjacent to the comma, then it will “eat” it: I loved her... but she was angry with me.
- If you want to write both an ellipsis and a question (exclamation) mark, then they will combine: really?.. Incredible!..
- It is interesting to write question and exclamation marks with ellipses: How dare you?!
- Direct speech, where there is a dash after the sign, if there is an ellipsis, is not separated by a space: “Did you know?” she asked.
- These punctuation marks remain in quotation marks when speaking directly: She said: “I’m not sure...”
- When using an ellipsis at the beginning of a sentence, it is not separated by a space: ...he came late in the autumn evening.
- In number series, ellipses are not separated by spaces: 1, 2, 3...7.
- When quoting an incomplete expression, the missing part is replaced with ellipses: at the beginning, in the middle or at the end of the quotation, depending on where the text was cut from.
- If a significant part of the quotation has been cut out, then the ellipses are framed by angle brackets on both sides.
- If the quotation ends with an ellipsis, then an additional dot is placed after the parentheses: M.V. Lomonosov wrote that “the beauty, splendor, strength and richness of the Russian language is evident from books written in past centuries...”.
Basic terms of Vkontakte
Every year on VK new terms appear that may not be clear to people who do not frequently visit this social network. Here we have collected the most popular VKontakte terms:
- avatar or ava - the main photo on the page;
- acc - account, account;
- anon - user anonymity;
- ban - blocking a page in some community or group;
- bayan - old joke/news;
- bot is a fake user, i.e. a script or program that performs automatic actions;
- ignore – ignoring (for example, messages);
- easy - easy;
- caps – text written in capital letters;
- captcha – written confirmation that the user is not a robot;
- kek – mockery of a person;
- like – approval of a VK post, “Like” button;
- PM – personal messages;
- meme - a funny picture in the vastness of contact;
- public – group or community;
- post – photography, music, video on a personal page, community;
- proof – demand for evidence, official information from the primary source;
- repost – moving a post to a personal page or group;
- rofl - to make fun of someone, to deceive;
- selfie – capturing yourself on a camera and posting it on a social network;
- screen – photograph using the keyboard and monitor/phone;
- emoticon is an image that reflects a person’s emotion;
- spam - sending advertisements;
- thank you;
- targeting - advertising aimed at a specific audience;
- topic - discussion in a community/group;
- chan - girl;
- troll – Internet provocation in the form of a conflict, dispute, discussion;
- fake - a false or unreal page;
- flex - brag/show off;
- hype - to inflate and promote any news;
- hater, hate - ill-wisher;
- check - check;
- chs - black list;
- chsv - a sense of self-importance.
What do text emoticons made up of symbols mean?
Let's continue to study the meanings of the most common spellings of certain emoticons using ordinary (unpretentious) symbols. Ready? Well, then let's go.
Initially, emoticons that appeared to be rotated by ninety degrees became widespread, i.e. lying on their side (see the above examples of laughing and sad faces). Let's see what other combinations you might encounter on the Internet and what they mean (how to decipher them).
Indication of emotions by emoticon symbols
- Joy or smile
