How to remove possible friends. Removing the list of possible friends

Important friends on VKontakte are detected automatically. When friends, family, and a loved one appear first on the list, it's convenient. But relationships may change for various reasons, and the need to constantly see a person’s page may no longer be necessary. In this article we will tell you how to remove from your important VKontakte friends those users whom you do not want to see at the top of the list.

By what principle does VKontakte determine important friends?

When forming a list of important friends, the VKontakte algorithm takes into account the following factors:

• how often do you correspond with the user;
• how often do you visit his page;
• how often do you leave “likes” and comments on user posts.

In addition, if you recently added a person, he will also appear in the top, but not higher than the important ones identified by the algorithm. If you don’t have much contact with the user, he will gradually drop down the list. This is one of the options for removing a person from your important friends on VKontakte. By the same principle, you can, on the contrary, be active in relation to other users, like and leave comments so that their rating increases and they rise to the place of an uninteresting user in the list of important ones. But both the first and second methods require a lot of time.

Let's look at more effective and simpler methods.

First way

To do this, follow these instructions on how to remove a user from important VKontakte friends:

• Go to the "News" section and find the post of the person you want to remove from important ones. If a person rarely posts anything, go to his page and select any post.
• Click on the ellipsis in the upper right corner of the recording block.
• From the list that appears, select "This is not interesting."

Ready! Wait a few hours (8 to 24) for the system to update the user's information and lower their rating.

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.

Now we have to talk about the fact that one additional function of the VKontakte social network has appeared: “Possible friends”. This service will serve as an assistant for finding possible comrades; everything here has already been thought out extremely well. In this section you will see a huge number of users with whom you are familiar.

"VKontakte": friends - location

There have been some changes. The usual VKontakte function “Possible Friends” has disappeared due to its uselessness - now acquaintances can be found using the “Search for People” button. After clicking on this button, you will immediately see a list of people who may be your friends. Essentially, this should make it easier for users to work with VKontakte. Behind laconicism, as a rule, lies talent. We will look at this innovation later. Also, in addition to this new function, a kind of book with phone numbers has now been created in the “Friends” section, where you can see the contacts of people who interest you.

The principle of sorting "Possible friends"

Administrators and developers of this popular social network among young people, of course, do not receive their salaries in vain. They constantly want to improve VK and make it as convenient as possible for communication and information exchange, so new features and functions are constantly appearing. And now, as we just said, the “Possible Friends” feature has appeared.

But on what principle does this blue button work? Among users there are many versions with answers to this question, but the true one is probably known only to developers. Most likely, this list includes only those people who are already your friends.

That is, for example, if you studied with them at the same educational institution, and also graduated in the same year, then, of course, they will be shown as your possible friends if you click on the specified link. If a certain person is listed as a friend not only by one of your friends, but by several, then the likelihood that he will also be on this list is quite high.

The developers made sure that possible friends were represented in the most complete list thanks to the “show others” button. However, many users, when they clicked on this button, received the same people they had already seen in the list earlier, just in a different order.

Of course, someone was luckier and found many friends and acquaintances on this list. Some users have reported 95% effectiveness of the feature. And for some, no matches were found at all. That is, complete strangers were included in the list. But this may happen because there are several people in your friends list that you don't know. Consequently, there cannot be anyone on their list who would be familiar to you.

"VKontakte": "Possible friends" have disappeared

Recently, the Internet has literally exploded with messages that “Possible Friends” on VKontakte have disappeared. Everyone is wondering where exactly this function disappeared? In the previous order, they are shown only to users who have just registered, but here’s the problem: as soon as their list of friends is replenished to at least one hundred, “Possible Friends” disappear.

If you don’t know how to look at possible VKontakte friends, remember that now you can find this undoubtedly useful function by clicking on the “Friends” column in the left list, and then on “Search” on the right side of the screen. The search will show only those people with whom you have many mutual friends, since the VKontakte administration decided that this would be much more convenient and efficient to work with the site.

This feature is certainly useful, but it just needs a little improvement. There are users who have hidden their friends in their privacy settings. So how to deal with them then? They think that only they can see their hidden friends, but no, in fact, in Possible Friends a complete stranger can see that they are on your list. After all, the VKontakte function “Possible Friends” in any case takes into account users hidden from prying eyes, and developers definitely need to think about this.

Criticism from users of the social network where the update was made

Many people perceive this update of the social network with hostility because, in their opinion, the developers understand the word “friends” too incorrectly, because we usually communicate with our friends live, and not on VKontakte, right? Perhaps they should call this feature “Possible Friends”, and then there would be fewer sidelong glances and negative reviews. In the meantime, we figured out where possible VKontakte friends are now.

The VK website helps its users quickly gather their close friends, relatives, colleagues, classmates, thanks to the “possible friends” block. It shows people selected by the system based on the information you specified in your profile and friendship with those contacts that are already on your friend list.

In the web version of the site for a personal computer, this block is located on the right side (the first 5 random people and lists). If you expand it, it will show a lot of people. You may know them personally, or through a mutual friend, and also have common interests and be members of the same group.

Some users do not want to see a certain person or a certain group of people on their page, but they constantly come across them in this block.

For those who use VK through the official mobile application on Android, after the latest update there is no such problem. There you need to first go to this section from friends by clicking on the plus sign.

On iPhone, this feature is also adapted with each update for convenience. But on a PC, the block is visible immediately when you go to the “friends” section, and you cannot disable the list of possible friends either in the settings or using third-party applications. This annoys many users and perhaps the administration will update the element soon.

In the meantime, you can simply remove people from the list one at a time. A removed "possible friend" will never appear in the block again. To do this we do the following.

This procedure will take no more than a second and in the end, unwanted persons will stop flashing on your page. You can also remove from the friend list the friend to whom VK most often refers when selecting (this is written under the avatar in the list). After this, his contacts will no longer appear among possible friends.

There is an option to hide information about your school and place of work if you are concerned about the appearance of colleagues and classmates in the block. In general, we can say that despite the lack of a function to disable the list, with certain actions you can isolate yourself from unwanted persons in it.