How VKontakte friends are distributed
Today, the social network Vkontakte is considered the most popular in Russia and the CIS countries. Every day, hundreds of millions of users visit the vk.com website to read news, find out something interesting, listen to music, watch movies and, of course, chat with friends. After all, what are social networks for in the first place? Of course, for communication!
Today the maximum number for one user is neither more nor less - 10 thousand people, and the average number of people who are on such a list is socially active user, is, according to statistics, 200-300 people.
Looking through these people, many of us think about how VKontakte friends are sorted, how their list is formed and what influences this sequence. Some people go even further in their thinking and want to know how to change the order of VKontakte friends and whether it can be done at all. In this article we will try to give answers to these and many other questions about the list of VK friends, revealing to you several useful secrets.
Arrangement order
Let's start with a simple one: how are friends located on VKontakte and who is first? If you open the list, you will see that your first friends on VKontakte are those users with whom you communicate most often. Sometimes sorting VKontakte friends can be a little confusing - for example, among your important acquaintances there may be those with whom you have not corresponded for a long time. How so? It's very simple - the communications that influence how people are sorted include not only private messages, as one might think, but also comments on posts, replies, etc. Thus, the first person on the list is not only the one with whom you have the longest correspondence, but also the one whose posts and news are most interesting to you. How to move friends to the top of the display list? Just communicate with them more often, that’s all!
However, there is an exception to this rule - users you added recently are automatically moved to the first 5 VKontakte friends so that you do not lose track of them if they end up at the end of the list. In the future, if you do not communicate with the newly added one too often, he will become one of the first 10 friends on VKontakte, and then the sequence will become standard.
Order online
Another issue is the order of the list online. How is it sorted? It’s very simple - the arrangement of friends in it is the same as in the general sequence, with the only difference being that there are no people who are now offline.
If you use an option such as lists of added people, you will probably be interested in how VKontakte friends are distributed if you add them to the list - for example, "Colleagues" or "Relatives". Everything works the same here: the more messages, likes and replies you are connected with, the higher the acquaintance’s position on the page will be.
The order of people who appear on your page has one, and one more interesting feature. If you go to your page, you will see that the first six people are online and the first six are general list never match. By the way, how are the friends you see in these sequences displayed? Everything follows the same principle - according to the frequency of your communication with them.
From other users
So, everything is more or less clear with our own friends, but what about this question: how are the friends of other users whom we see from our page located? Here, again, everything is simple: the distribution occurs according to the number of mutual acquaintances. What if you and the user whose page you looked at don’t have a single friend in common? Then the order of friends is based on the date of registration.
Changing the order
Well, now we have figured out how such sequences of people are displayed and how friends are distributed in VKontakte. Let's move on to practical questions, the first of which will be: is it possible to change this order? How to move friends in lists and sort them at your own discretion, how to swap friends? Alas, the order, as already mentioned, is set automatically, and currently VKontakte does not have a function that allows you to perform such an operation. If you are interested in how to raise a friend and how to lower him in the general list, then there is only one way - to communicate more often with this person in any form or, conversely, to reduce communication to a minimum.
And now - a couple of interesting and useful options.
Let's start with the useful: as you know, many VKontakte users share their real coordinates, including their mobile phone number, Skype login, as well as links to blogs, etc. However, few people know that there is an application for mobile phones, which allows you to synchronize contacts from VK with an address book in the phone’s memory. The application is called "VKontakte Sync" and available for the operating system Android.
Now for something interesting: imagine what your list of your acquaintances would look like if you presented it in the form of a graph? Visualization of friends- this is a very real function offered by the site http://www.yasiv.com/vk. You only need to allow the application hosted on the site to access your page, and the program will build an interactive friends graph, which displays all your connections between people, visually and informatively.
The last thing I would like to say is that in pursuit of a huge number of added people on VKontakte, do not forget about those who are close to you, and when communicating on the Internet, you should not neglect live communication, because they will never replace real acquaintances!
I noticed that many people are interested in the question: How to remove a friend from the top position of the VKontakte friends list? Or several friends, it doesn’t matter.
- Then you can immediately unlock it;
The effect is immediate - a friend immediately goes down several positions. By the way, you will also become shorter with him.
2. Activity with other friends.
The easiest way to remove a friend from the top position is to put another person in it.
To do this, communicate with another person and be as active as possible: like, repost posts, comment on photos.
Of course, this method is not the fastest, but it is effective.
3. Reducing interest through the "News" section.
No less effective method- reduce interest in a friend.
To do this, go to the "News" section, click on the filter icon and hide the news of all users and communities, except for a specific friend:
- Don't forget to save your changes;
Now refresh the page and in the right top corner friend's entries, click on the button:
Next you just have to click on the button "Don't show news":
That's it, after these manipulations the user must move down from the top position of the friends list. Now you can undo actions on hiding a friend's news. This is no longer necessary.
4. Reduced interest through a friend's page.
A very good method is to temporarily hide a friend's news.
To do this you should open page friend, under the avatar, click on the “Actions” button and select the value:
- The friend's priority has been lowered and you can show his news again;
All these 4 methods work, but you should understand that for changes to occur in the friends list, at least few hours. Nothing happens right away.
By the way, these methods can also be used on VKontakte communities.
Have you ever known that VK has a number of friends? Yes, yes, at the time of writing, it amounts to 10,000 users including friend requests. What if there are more friends? This means they will be your subscribers.
Finding users with 10 thousand friends is, to put it mildly, not so easy. For most, this figure is much lower - 200-500 user-friends. But today we won’t talk about friends, but about how a list of friends for a user is formed. Here, as it turns out, everything is far from so simple.
Important friends
You've probably asked yourself why some users are ranked higher than others? This is explained simply - at the top of the friends list are those users with whom you communicate most often. However, if you see a user at the top of the list with whom you have not corresponded for a long time, he did not get there by mistake - in addition to communication, other factors influence the sorting, including likes to friends, replies in comments, reposts, etc. Therefore, the list of important friends (and it is called that way) will contain those users to whom, roughly speaking, you pay more attention than others.
There is an important exception to this rule: the list also includes those users whom you recently added as friends. This is done so that you do not forget about them and communicate. If you do not communicate with them, then over time the list will be reformed and these users will be lower on the list of friends.
Friends of other users
Can the above be applied to other users' friends? No, you can’t, because in this case the list is formed based on mutual friends. If there are no mutual friends, then the list can be formed based on the date of user registration. But it is possible that users can be ranked randomly, if you do not take into account mutual friends.
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 this 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.
Mobile app
The mobile application has a list of important friends, it’s called “Important”. The order in which users appear in it is the same as in the first case, described above.
Can I change my friends list?
The list of important friends itself, and friends in general, is generated exclusively automatically. But you can influence the rankings. For example, the more you communicate with the user, the more often you like him, repost him, etc., the higher he will be on the list.
Sometimes the social network VKontakte incorrectly arranges the order of friends on the profile page and because of this it becomes inconvenient to communicate with your friends. So that you can do it yourself set up a list of important friends, Let's look at how to raise a friend to the top of the VK list, what methods there are for this.
Method number 1 on how to raise a friend on VK
This is a long term method. It may take more than 1 day to raise a VK friend to 1st place using this method. You don’t have to constantly be on the social network - just go to your page every hour and go to the profile of the person you want to put in first place on your VKontakte friends list.
It is better to access a person’s personal page through the “Friends” tab. Gradually, click by click (provided that you visit his profile more often than other people’s pages), this friend rises to the list of important friends and takes a top position.
Method number 2 how to raise a friend in the Vk friends list
The second method is similar, but requires a little more labor and is faster. You will not only have to go to the profile of the person you want to raise as a friend, but also be active on his page:
- like his posts;
- comment on photos and posts;
- send messages;
- write on the wall;
- repost his notes.
Method No. 3 how to move a VK friend to the list of important friends
This is the easiest method to change the order of important friends. To implement it, you need take a person from friends, and then add again. Then it will automatically move to the top. And if this does not happen, just write a few messages to the person, like the post, and he will rise up the list.
The fact is that VKontakte works according to the principle that Important friends include new people and those with whom you come into contact most often. So if you want your friend to rise to the top and not find out that you did this on purpose, then visit his page more often, and visit the pages of other profiles less often. If you do this together, then remove him from your friends list, and then add him again - and the Vk algorithm will work in the direction you need.
I don’t know if you are aware, but you have the opportunity, with the help of simple actions, to remove your friend from the top positions of the VKontakte friends list. All you have to do is, with a couple of clicks, lower your friend's priority in the news section, after which he will drop to the bottom of your friends list. Let's look at 3 ways in which this can be done.
Instruction No. 1: through demonstrated activity
The most common way to remove a friend from the top of your friends list is to promote other friends to the top. This is all done for a very long time and manually, because this requires visiting friends’ pages as often as possible, rating and commenting on their publications and communicating with them through personal messages. The more actions you take with certain users, the higher they become on your friends list.
This is how you can displace your enemy. Just be active on the pages of other friends on your list, and as for your enemy, forget about him. For the method to work, you must not maintain contact with this user, otherwise he may not only remain in the same place in your list, but also jump even higher!
In general, a little time spent, a little patience and a little caution - and you will reach your cherished goal!
Instruction No. 2: through the news section
You don't have to do everything manually. You all have a personal life and more important things to do, but to remove your friend from the top positions of the VKontakte friends list there is an even simpler function.
This time we will need an entry from our enemy in the news feed. Unfortunately, this method does not always work. If a person has not published new posts on his wall for a long time, this method will not help, so use the third method. But if your friend is actively posting new posts or has posted recently, you can scroll down the feed and easily find one of his posts. But to make his post easier to find, do the following:
When you have found your friend's post or have hidden all other news to find your friend's post, follow the instructions below:
Instruction No. 3: through the user page
This method is much simpler than the first two. However, in order not to rack your brains and save a lot of time, it is better to use this method right away! Here everything is done like this:
Due to the nature of the work social network On VKontakte, the order of friends does not change immediately, but several hours after the manipulations have been performed. So after you have done the above steps, just be patient!
After some time, your friend will move down from the top of your friends list. It has been verified that a friend can be either in the middle of your list or at the very end. It all depends on the activity you show towards this person. For example, if you just added a new friend and he's in the top of your friends list, hiding his news will drop him to the very bottom of your friends list. And if a person was in the top because you often visit his page, send him messages and like his photos, after hiding the news he will be approximately in the middle of the list or slightly higher.
It is worth noting that the methods described above also work with communities. That is, by lowering the priority of your groups, meetings or public pages, you will move them to the bottom of your list of communities.
