Secret contact. Secrets on Vkontakte - let's lift the veil of secrets
Hello everybody! In today's article we will reveal VKontakte secrets! Despite its apparent simplicity and convenience, the VK social network is full of secrets and tricks.
Over time, all the simplicity of Vk began to acquire more and more functionality, which can be very useful, but, unfortunately, they are sometimes difficult to find. Of course, they are not particularly needed, but in order to unravel some of the confusing things, I suggest you learn the following three tricks:
- How to access the version of the vk.com website for mobile phones?
- Check-ins or let friends know where I am?
- How to subscribe to an unfollowed friend's news feed?
As you can see, there are not many chips, but they are voluminous, and the article was written specifically for those who have a lot of books...
Secrets of the VKontakte site
1) Mobile version of VK
This feature is not even a secret, but an urgent necessity, because all fans of the social network Vk want not only to communicate with family and friends, but also to use cool games and applications, share videos and music. There is nothing easier than using your Personal Computer or laptop.
But what to do if you don’t have a computer at hand? Just go from your phone to mobile version VKontakte at the following address:
Using this mobile client Vk for phones you can make the most of your mobile phone, PDA or tablet. All friend pages, widgets and music are made for comfortable work on mobile phone, however, for a change, you can try logging in from your computer.
2) Check-ins: we inform everyone about our location
Check-ins appeared not so long ago; their essence is the synchronization of the addresses of establishments registered in communities with geotags. Even today, while in a cinema, cafe or visiting, you can easily tell your friends about it in a few clicks!
After you check in, it will appear on your wall. The entry will indicate your current location with your exact name and address, and this message will be instantly available to friends in news feed. Here’s a cool secret on VKontakte, and if you click on the name, you can see a map and people who checked in at the address specified in the message:
How to check in? There are two options: send from your page or from a group.
To post a check-in on the wall from the page you need:
An additional option for informing friends about where you are is through communities and events (for public pages the check-in function is not provided):
Attention! In order to be able to enable check-ins in a group, administrators need to go to settings later or later and specify the location:
3) How to receive news from users who are not friends?
News feed - the best option keep abreast of all events social network, it also provides a chance to follow the most attractive events in life interesting people. But how can you find out the VKontakte subscription secrets? What can you do if not all people want to add you as a friend or, on the contrary, you don’t want to be among their subscribers?
Few people know, but on VK there is a way to receive news not only from friends, but also from complete strangers. I want to warn you that you will still have to submit a friend request, but after some simple steps you can quickly unsubscribe.
Step-by-step instruction:
The first step: subscribe to friends or a group that interests you. If you don’t want a person to even know about your existence, find a time when he is not online, because he will definitely receive a message about friendship, but if you do everything clearly and quickly, he won’t even know anything.
Second step: go through left menu in My news (1), click on the plus sign (2) and add a new tab.
Many people think that the VKontakte network is known to everyone. But it has many hidden corners. If you find out hidden possibilities VKontakte, then you can diversify your social life and get a boost of energy and humor. The fact is that VK has many functions that cannot be learned immediately. And if you start to understand them, you will understand that good old social. the network is not as simple as you think.
Hidden ability to customize languages
If you select “pre-revolutionary language” in the settings, then all the menu labels will change. In particular:
- Instead of a profile there will be a passport;
- Instead of friends - acquaintances;
- My videos are cinematography;
- Messages - letters, etc.
It is no less interesting to choose “Soviet language”. As a result, you will get the following transformations:
- The solution is emigration;
- Communities - clubs;
- News - information bureau;
- Search - search, and the like.
This way you can immerse yourself in a long-ago era and have some fun.
VK settings options
If you want to leave any column in your profile completely blank, then you need to enter the code into it: It automatically makes the line empty.
You may not know, but in the “place of work” column you can always provide a link to any VK group. This is not prohibited by the network rules.
And if you want your id to be shorter, then you need to go to “My Settings” and change it. This way your friends will remember you faster.
You cannot download music on VKontakte. But it's not a problem. You can install a simple extension like SaveFrom or another. And you will have a download button under each song.
A few more tricks
If you want to send someone a message with crossed out text, then you need the code ̶.
Also, the hidden features of VKontakte include the ability to put emoticons wherever they are officially not present. That's what they exist for. Paste the code anywhere and the smile is ready.
Sometimes we are forbidden to sit on VK (for example, at work). Log in through an anonymizer, for example Chameleon. This way it won’t be clear that it was you who visited VK.
This network carefully monitors who is in it and for how many days. Do you want to know how many days you have been on this network? Install the application via the link https://vk.com/app640450.
And the biggest secret
Few people know, but Contact today is huge business area. And you can receive money just by being in your account. It’s quite simple for you to add a site (VK account). After which, you will automatically receive posts, for posting which on your wall you will receive money.
There are also other exchanges where you can:
- Put paid likes;
- Provide advertising in groups for money;
- There is a fee to join groups;
- Make money on affiliate programs and so on.
Therefore, you should not sit idly by. Your Additional income right in front of you. Use the capabilities of VKontakte not only for entertainment, but also to earn money.
So, don't believe what you see. Always try to understand the essence, and your life, both real and online, will become much more interesting.
There are quite a few interesting features and opportunities that users are not aware of.
With the help of various tricks, you can greatly change the site interface, make the design original, receive votes for free, and much more.
The tricks and secrets of VKontakte that we will talk about in this article can be useful to everyone. Some of them are not so useful, but are intended more for transformation appearance website and profile, but this can also be interesting for active users of social networks.
8 secrets of using VKontakte
1. Empty fields.
If you have not completely filled out the information in your profile, then by default, “No information” will be written next to some lines. You can remove these inscriptions if you add a set of special characters to the lines.
2. VKontakte design.
Anyone can change the external design of the VKontakte website by using special themes. To do this, use the service, where you can download a special plug-in for the browser and choose an original design. Everything is free, and after using it, social pages. networks will look unusual:
3. Non-standard menu.
The side menu displays all the items for using VKontakte, and you can change them by changing the language. In the settings you can select the language Soviet or Pre-Revolutionary and you will see the following menu view:
4. Interesting work.
When editing your profile data, on the career tab, you can select any community in which you are a member. This great way so that a link to the group always accompanies your name on social media. networks:
5. Hiding ads.
Everyone is tired of advertising on websites, and annoying blocks always appear under the VKontakte menu. It’s not difficult to remove them; to do this, you just need to install a free browser add-on, which we talked about in the article on how to remove ads from websites.
6. Free votes.
Periodically, each VKontakte user can receive free votes using shares. Go to settings, go to the “Payments” tab, click on the top up balance button and select Special offers. After this, you will see a list of all options for receiving free votes:
7. Downloading media files.
To listen to music or watch videos, you have to constantly log into the social network. In the standard VKontakte interface there are no buttons to download media files, but this can be done using the extension from . Now the video format has changed, so the add-on does not work with videos, use
Thanks to social network VKontakte users have the opportunity to communicate with each other not only in groups and communities, but also directly through personal messages. The correspondence history is saved, just like in many communication programs (ICQ, QIP). You can always watch it if necessary.
Instructions
You have a personal page on social media. VKontakte network. On the left side there is a menu. Next to “My Messages” is the number of unread messages your friends have sent you. Select this section and go to it. Open the conversation you are interested in to . In the “Dialogues” section only Last messages left by users. If you open each subsection, you will see the entire correspondence history.
On a social network, all unread messages are highlighted blue. During correspondence in “Dialogues” this rule applies to both the interlocutor’s messages and your letters. Until you read message, which the user sent you, it will be highlighted in blue on his correspondence page.
Read new message There is one simple way to prevent your interlocutor from finding out about this. Select the “My Messages” section, without opening the letter highlighted in blue, click on the name of the user who sent it. His personal page will open. On it, select “Send” message" Select the inscription “Go to dialogue with the user”, you will see full story correspondence and the last unread message. If you followed all these instructions, the color of the letter will not change.
How quickly time passes. I have been registered with VKontakte for almost a year now. I don’t use classmates, because they are too commercialized, and another story connects me with them. Today, the monthly audience of social networks numbers tens of millions of people. For example, the number of unique visitors to social Facebook networks and MySpace in January 2009 exceeded 90 million people. This is approximately one third of all US residents. It is interesting that Runet social networks, the leaders of which are VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, have been steadily approaching their Western counterparts over the past few months. The total number of registered users of the social networks “VKontakte” and “Odnoklassniki” today is about 25 million people.
According to analytical companies involved in statistical analysis network trends, in January 2009 the number of unique visitors to VKontakte for the first time exceeded that of Odnoklassniki. During the specified period of time, the attendance of VKontakte was 13.09 million people, and Odnoklassniki - 13 million. Of course, the gap is minimal, but nevertheless it speaks volumes. The report was provided by TNS Web Index.
Currently, the databases of these resources are an extremely tasty morsel - it’s hard to even imagine how many personal information there is. It's no secret that among ordinary users social network comes across movie stars, show business, famous politicians. All these people usually prefer to hide their data - and in their account they also keep their data private prying eyes. However, what is closed by one person may well be open by another - after all, social networks are just a set of code symbols that were created by people. You can find out some of the secrets of social network users, no matter how private they are about their personal information.
If so, then let's begin research into possible approaches to the classified data of users of the social network VKontakte.
So, here is a list of what thousands of thousands of VKontakte users desire:
View closed pages
Replace date of birth with any day, month or year
Download music from the VKontakte database
Download video from VKontakte database
How to find out who left an opinion about you
Invite all friends to the group
How to remove the first and last name on VKontakte
How to marry yourself "VKontakte"
How to create a status on several lines?
How to follow people on VKontakte?
In reality, all this is not so difficult to do, you just need to be able to press the keys and carefully read the instructions.
1) Secrets of VKontakte - How to view closed pages? It's not easy, but very simple:
http://vkontakte.ru/photos.php?act=user&id=0000 - photographs in which a person is tagged
http://vkontakte.ru/video.php?act=tagview&id=0000 - videos in which a person is tagged
http://vkontakte.ru/photos.php?id=0000 - photo albums
http://vkontakte.ru/video.php?id=0000 - video recordings
http://vkontakte.ru/groups.php?id=0000 - groups
http://vkontakte.ru/audio.php?id=0000 - audio recordings
http://vkontakte.ru/apps.php?mid=0000 - applications
http://vkontakte.ru/questions.php?mid=0000 - questions, where 0000 is the user id.
True, there are some limitations here that still cannot be overcome: if photos are available for specific groups of friends, then you won’t be able to view them! Likewise, you won’t be able to view photos of a user who has blocked them from everyone.
2) Secrets of VKontakte - How to change your birthday to an arbitrary one?
This stage is somewhat more complicated than the previous one, but clear instructions will help anyone. Here are the steps to take:
Download and install Opera 9.27 (or better yet, take the Portable version)
In your account, click on “edit.” next to the "My Page" button
Press the key combination “Ctrl+F3”
Scroll the opened code down to a list with lines like 1
In the found piece, change both digits 1 in line 1 to the same desired number
Scroll down a little more to the list of years and in 1996 change both numbers 1996 to the same desired numbers
Look up and click the “Save Changes” button
Click on the contact page editing tab, selecting the numbers from the previous step;
Save the changes made;
Check the results.
Note that for some users, despite smooth hands and a normally functioning brain, nothing worked out. Perhaps the moon was simply in the wrong phase, or software somehow interacted, preventing a positive result from being achieved.
3) Secrets of VKontakte - How to download music from the VKontakte database?
If you want to download music from a specific page, then copy this code V address bar your browser (if open page"VKontakte" with the desired melody).
javasc ript: function operate (id, host, user, file, dur, wall) ( var str = “Download
“; mydoc = window.open(); mydoc.document.write(str); ) alert("Patched!");
// don't forget to remove spaces
Now you need to press ENTER.
After this, when you click on the button to play the audio recording, a new (!!) window will open with a “download” link. To download, hover over the link and select “Save As”. If you don’t need to download, but just want to listen, just follow the link. Some Internet browsers enable the “Save As” option in the File menu.
4) Secrets of VKontakte - How to download videos from the VKontakte database? We work according to the following algorithm:
Open the page with the video;
Paste this code into the address bar of the browser (with the page with the video open):
java script:(function())(var s=document.createElement('script'); s.src='http://xantorohara.jino-net.ru/videovkontakte/videovkontakte.js'; s.type='text /javascript'; document.getElementsByTagName('head').appendChild(s); ))();
Remove all spaces (without this it will not work). Press Enter.
5) Secrets of VKontakte - How to find out who left an anonymous opinion?
If you really can’t wait to find out who left the opinion, we send back a link like this: http://vkontakte.ru/matches.php?act=a_sent&to_id=0000&dec=1, where (0000 is the user id, that is, yours) .
As soon as this person clicks on the link, it will become clear to you who this anonymous person is. Please note: you must have applications enabled!
6) Secrets of VKontakte - How to invite all friends to the group?
IN in this case The actions that need to be taken are a little more complicated than in the previous case, but not much, don’t be alarmed:
Go to “Invite to group”
Copy the following code into the address bar of the browser, remembering to remove spaces:
java script:function addall())(var butt_all=’[>>>Welcome! “Settings” > “Advanced” > “Network”.
Uncheck the “Enable automatic redirection” checkbox.
We repeat the steps we performed for Firefox browser, you just need to start from the third point.
Method No. 3 (considerable investment of time)
You need to go to “Private Messages”
Then we wait (timeout for connecting to VKontakte).
Ready! We visit all pages except “profile.php”.
9) Secrets of VKontakte - How to draw highly artistic graffiti?
Most users can hardly boast of artistic skills. A small series of tricks that will help you create a masterpiece on someone's wall:
In order to draw perfectly straight horizontal and vertical lines, you need to switch the mouse control to an additional keyboard. This is done with the key combination Shift+Alt+NumLock.
Working with small details will become much easier when you zoom in. Will help with this " Magnifier": Start > All Programs > Accessories > Special abilities> Screen magnifier.
10) Secrets of VKontakte - How to insert audio into notes?
Enough useful feature if you store great amount tracks on VKontakte, then you can create some semblance of playlists:
Find the track at http://vkontakte.ru/audio.php;
Find the “Add” link next to it and copy it by opening the page and stopping its loading;
The result was a link like this: http://vkontakte.ru/audio.php?act=add&add=0&gid=0&aid=48008192&oid=14904316&hash=af1e2261c6ba61d7487e66c2ca741f61;
Copy from this link the numbers after the variables &oid= and &aid=;
We insert these numbers into “[]”, where * is the number after &oid, ** is the number after &aid. Insert the resulting tag ([]) into the notes.
11) Secrets of VKontakte - How to marry yourself on VKontakte?
Sometimes you want to please yourself and your friends with something unusual - and VKontakte offers us many opportunities to personalize your account. For example, you can marry yourself - we explain how this can be done, using the example of working in Opera browser.
Go to the page for editing your profile;
Opening source page, look for the code for the drop-down list and add at the very end of yourself: I;
Click “Apply changes” and select yourself on the editing page;
We save the profile.
By the way, Firefox can also help us in this matter, but to marry yourself you will need to install the Firebug plugin.
12) Secrets of VKontakte - How to use Special symbols in name or status?
There are users whose name or status contains unusual symbols. In order to keep up with progressive humanity, you need to select the symbol you like and insert its HTML code wherever required - in a name, status, or simply in a sentence.
13) Secrets of VKontakte - How to follow people on VKontakte?
If you need to know how much your acquaintances, friends or subordinates spend on the VKontakte social network, use the SocialWatch.ru service. Everything is simple here: register, add links to the profiles of those you want to follow. After this, you can easily track how much time the tracked users spend on the social network.
14) Secrets of VKontakte - How to watch closed photos"In contact with"?
Turn on the “Accelerated photo viewing mode” function.
Go to the “Photos in which the user is tagged” section.
We select a photo that is open and then look through all the “closed” photos.
15) Secrets of VKontakte - How to prank a friend?
With this a little trick coupled with the gullibility of friends, you can well observe the vocabulary of the victim of the prank. And all because of one link - http://vkontakte.ru/?lang=digit. When you click on the link, the language changes from Russian to the one whose number was indicated. For example, the Russian language is 0, and then everything is in your hands and the courage of your friends.
Of course, over time this will all be corrected by the developers! But there are no ideals...
All the best! Best regards, Eric Newman aka rxn