By clicking on the Friends section in our VK profile, we are used to seeing colleagues, relatives, classmates, friends from the Internet, etc. there. There are tens, hundreds, thousands of them. And the order in which they are located is not always the same. It changes regularly without direct user intervention. And at the top are always those people whose pages you visit and towards whom you are active. They are called important.

Today we will try to figure out how to make this list, try to customize it for ourselves and identify important friends on someone else's page.

There is no clear algorithm for forming a friend list. It all depends on the activity of the user himself and this means different consequences. Factors include the following:

  • correspondence and visiting a friend's page. Those pages that you visit most often and with whom you communicate a lot are in the top places;
  • date of adding to friends. Recently added pages are located above, one is obligatory in the first five;
  • the number of friends adjacent to you;
  • page content activity. Abandoned, long-deleted, empty are often displayed below the rest.

It is impossible to change the location of friends in the friend list according to a clear plan. It will be determined automatically, but with your visits, likes, reposts and correspondence, you are promoting the people you need to the top.

If you want to put a friend on the list of friends, do not perform any actions with his profile for a while, do not write or go to the page.

The only way to organize the right people according to your preference is to create a separate friends list. For this you need:

You can always add a new person there, but you also cannot promote or demote him in the general order. Although there will be no problems with the location, since you can always make a new list in which your selected top people will be.

How to see important friends of a friend

There is no way to see another user's friend list from your page through his eyes. That is, the issue for you will still be different. You won't be able to find out the order for a friend through the interface of the VK website, as well as with the help of third-party programs. Of course, if you hack a person's page, then friends will be displayed in his order, but we will not consider this option.

If you go to a friend's page and open the list of his friends, they will be sorted for you from top to bottom in the following order:

  1. Your profile is first on the list.
  2. People who have mutual friends with you (the more, the higher in the list).
  3. Sort by registration date and page rating.

Mutual friends are included in a separate list. If a friend created his own, you will see him too.

Important friends on the phone

Everything described applies not only to the web version of the VK website for a personal computer, but also to official mobile applications for iPhone, Android.

Important friends of "VKontakte" are detected automatically. When friends, family, and a loved one appear first on the list, it's convenient. But relationships can change for various reasons, and the need to constantly see a person's page may disappear. In this article we will tell you how to remove from important VKontakte friends those users whom you do not want to see at the top of the list.

How does VKontakte identify important friends?

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

  • how often you correspond with the user;
  • how often you visit his page;
  • how often do you like and comment under user posts.

In addition, if you recently added a person, he will also appear in the top, but not higher than the important ones, which were determined by the algorithm. If you don't have a lot of contact with the user, he will gradually go down in the list. This is one of the options for how to remove a person from important friends on VKontakte. By the same principle, you can, on the contrary, be active in relation to other users, put likes 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 are time consuming.

Let's consider more efficient and simpler ways.

The first way

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

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

Ready! Wait a few hours (from 8 to 24) for the system to update the user information and downgrade his rating.

Second way

The second method, how to remove a person from important friends of VKontakte, solves the problem radically. To do this, you just need to delete 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 about anything, and in your list it will go down.

Keep in mind that if you continue to be active in relation to the user whom you want to remove from the important ones, his rating will soon increase, and he will take his place in the list again. And remember: although it is useful to know how to remove unwanted users from important friends of VKontakte, the order of friends in reality is much more important than the order of friends on social networks.

Instructions

Images from any photo album or news can be viewed in full screen mode. To do this, just click on one of the pictures and press Alt + Enter. And if you check the box in the lower left corner, then a slideshow of all the photos in the album will start.

Can't find your unread messages? It's easy to fix. Go to "My messages", select "Show as messages" and click on "unread". This will display a list of all unread messages.

Can't find important news in your community or on a friend's wall? Use the standard search. Click on the upper border of the wall (where the number of records is indicated) and in the new menu click on "Go to search" in the upper right corner. Search is carried out by news and comments.

Some users re-upload their old avatars to make them the main one. But it is not necessary to duplicate old photos. Just go to the "Photos from my page" album and drag the photo to the very end. After that, the photo will automatically become the main one.

If you want to attach a photo or video from VKontakte to the news, you do not need to download it or add it to your albums. Just copy the link and paste it into the news, the necessary content will be attached automatically. By the way, pictures can be attached from the Internet, it is enough to also insert a link into the text field, but a video from another resource (for example, youtube) cannot be attached like that.

You can group your friends using private lists. Go to your friends list and select "Create List" at the bottom of the right-hand menu. These lists will be viewable only for you. They are intended to fine-tune the access rights of friends to your personal content.

Users with more than 100 subscribers can view statistics of visits to their page. To do this, go to your profile and find the "Page Statistics" button in the lower left corner, under the albums.

Don't want to see a bunch of uninteresting content in your news? Go to "My news" and click on the button "Show only interesting". Now you will see only the most important news, for example, new photos of friends, and the news from most communities will no longer be shown.

By the way, you can also turn off the display of reposts. To do this, go to "My news", select "List of sources", switch to "Black list" and uncheck "Show copies in the News". Now you will stop seeing friends and communities.

If you open the list of your VKontakte friends for viewing, then some will be higher in the list, others below. What does it depend on? Top positions fall important friends... In this manual, I will tell you how this list is formed.

Open VK and go to the "Friends" section.

There are two main criteria that affect which user gets to the top of the line.

  • Correspondence activity;
  • Have been recently added.

With the first option, everything is clear. The more often you communicate with a person, the more important he is considered within the framework of contact.

The second option reminds you to chat with new friends (see). When you add a person, for a while he is included in the list of important friends. But over time, if there is no activity, it will go down to the end of the list.

And what about the list of friends?

There is an assumption that it is formed in a random order. Although when trying to view my friend's list of friends, it was unchanged after several page updates (see).

Friends online

Here, the list is formed in exactly the same way - by the number of messages (see), or the date of acceptance of the friend request. The only difference with the first option is that the people who are on Vkontakte at the moment are displayed.

Mobile app

Go to your Vkontakte page through the application (see). Go to the "Friends" section. Here the list is called "Important". The principle of its formation is the same as in the full version (see).

Each of us has friends on Vkontakte. Some have more, others have less. Regardless of this, when looking at the list of friends, the top positions are occupied by those people with whom we most often interact. Such users within VK are considered to be important friends (see).

Now I will tell you how can you raise a person on your VKontakte friends list.

What factors influence

The official algorithm by which the priority is calculated has not been published. But we do know that the following factors affect how high a person will be on your friends list.

Thus, the more active you are with the user, the higher they are in the friend list.

How to raise a person on your VK friends list

Based on the above, the following conclusion can be drawn. You just need to start being active on his page.

Write more messages, like and repost.

Conclusion

The only problem is there is no known time frame when the list is updated. Therefore, to begin with, try to be active throughout the day.