Where are the hidden friends? How to hide one friend on VKontakte? How it works

Often, when using a social network, we do not know how to hide one friend on VKontakte from unwanted eyes, although this is often very necessary for us. This article will tell and give detailed instructions about how to hide a friend’s VKontakte.

Instructions

1. The first thing you need to do in order to hide your VKontakte friend is to enter the “settings menu”. From of this menu you need to go to the tab called “privacy”.
2. In the new window that appears on the screen, you need to find the line “who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions.” On the contrary, by default, the “all friends” link will be indicated. You must click on this link.
3. After clicking on the “all friends” link, a new window will appear with the title “select the friends you want to hide.” On the left side there will be a list of all your friends. And on the right side there will be a list of hidden friends. Then you just need to select the friend you want to hide and click on the plus sign, which is located opposite the first and last name of the selected person.
4. After everything is finished, you just need to click on the “save changes” button. That's it, the friends you need are hidden from prying eyes!

Now you know how to hide a friend on VKontakte, and you can do it if necessary! You also need to remember that according to the rules social network VKontakte has a limit on the number of people a user can hide from prying eyes. According to the site rules, you can hide no more than fifteen people!

You can hide your acquaintances for various reasons. Sometimes people correspond with a large number of people and do not want all their friends to read about each other. Some people are afraid that through their friends’ pages they might see photos about them or read notes that are not intended for everyone. Some people perceive closed information as elitism. That is why it is possible to hide friends on VKontakte.

Why do the settings in “friends” change so often?

VKontakte is constantly changing. Sometimes these changes make it difficult to navigate the social network space, but basically they are all aimed at improving it.

The settings of the “friends” tab especially often fall under “reforms”. According to VKontakte developer Pavel Durov, open lists Friends are the main reason for the success of social networks. The rise in popularity of VKontakte is due to the publicity of this list. People visit pages, travel around the social network, bringing traffic and income to it. For the users themselves, the openness of the lists makes it possible to meet more and more people and expand their circle of contacts.

However, VKontakte management has to meet the wishes of users. Therefore, the ability to make friends invisible has now appeared. At first, a limit of 15 people was introduced, then it was expanded to 30.

How can you hide your friends now?

Settings management is simple. To the left of the photo, select the “My Settings” area, then the “Privacy” tab. Specify who should be visible in the list of subscriptions and friends. From the entire list of friends, you need to select “all but”, and then indicate the names of the people who should remain hidden.

Please note that only the profile owner can see all hidden friends.

Is it possible to see other people's hidden friends?

Previously, it was possible to look at hidden friends of another VKontakte user by substituting the id in various links or using online services. But now hidden friends are visible only if the user has allowed it in the “Who can see my hidden friends” settings. For example, he chose “Friends Only” there - then you can only watch if you are a “friend” of this person.

There is no other way yet. And why strive for this? Still, someone else's desire to keep their secrets must be respected.

Hello, dear readers! As you know, the Russian social network VKontakte provides its users with a sufficient number of different settings and functions that should make staying on the site as comfortable as possible for everyone. One of these settings is the ability to hide friends. Each of us, using this privilege, can pursue a different goal. However, our article today is dedicated, naturally, not to conspirators, but to curious Barbarians who are eager to see the hidden friends of VK on the page of the person over whom a detective investigation is being conducted.

Is looking at hidden VK friends a justifiable risk?

It is worth noting right away that at the moment there are no safe services and programs that could show hidden friends on VKontakte. AND keyword here - safe. Therefore, by downloading a promising application or using an untrustworthy site to see hidden VK friends, you are thereby signing up for voluntary hacking of your own account. This usually happens when a request to log in using a username and password pops up. But, if the official VKontakte website guarantees the security of your data, then on analogues of VK with a wider range of actions no one will give you this guarantee. And as a result, scammers have full access to your page, through which, at best, they will send spam.

If you still decide to take a risk and resort to the help of such resources, then I personally would like to give advice: do it better from a fake page, which you definitely won’t mind losing.

Now let's return to the topic and list sites that position themselves as “spyware”. These include: 220vk.com, vk-express.ru, vkspy.by, vk.city4me.com.

How they will behave in practice remains for you to check. Be prepared for the fact that you will most likely need to enter your username and password, but if you use a fake page, it’s not so bad. We strongly do not recommend sending SMS “with a code/code word” to any number, otherwise you will lose money mobile account as if it never happened.

And I would really like you to share your experience in the comments below this article after the “operation” has been performed.

How to find out if a user has hidden friends?

This method does not allow you to find out who exactly remains secret. However, the very presence of hidden friends for the user is as simple as shelling pears. To do this, you do not need to download any incomprehensible programs, but just be able to count. Now follow the instructions:

1. Go to the page of the person you are interested in.
2. On his page, go to “Friends”. Pay attention to the number of people (let's say there are 60).
3. On the right side of the window, click on “Options”. In the filter, set the gender one by one and remember the number of corresponding friends. For example, there are 25 women and 15 men.
4. View your friends list. Perhaps someone did not indicate their gender or was deleted. Let's say there are 3 such people.
5. As a result, from the total amount of friends we subtract women, men and “undefined”: 60-25-15-3=17. 17, as you guessed, is the number of hidden friends. But, unfortunately, you will not be able to identify them.

Find out hidden friends by observation

If it’s really so important for you to identify hidden friends, and you don’t mind the time, then you’ll have to thoroughly “scan” all the photos, wall posts and comments. Pay attention to who often likes and comments on your crush’s posts. If you have someone in mind, go to that person's page. Mutual friends will be displayed there. And if your fiancée is on the list of mutual friends, but the fiancée does not have this particular person among his friends, then most likely he is a hidden friend.

But, again, we repeat that this will take more than one hour.

Conclusion

We remind you that, regardless of the number of friends, a VK user can add no more than 30 people to the list of hidden friends. Let’s also add that the developers of this social network really took care to hide as securely as possible the information that the user wants, thereby not violating his personal space. Therefore, it is still not easy to see hidden friends on VK, and this question remains largely open...

That's all, friends! Trust each other and see you soon!

For some time now it has become completely open. We are talking about the user's friends. As you remember, before friends could be hidden from prying eyes without any problems, but then Pavel Durov decided that people should get to know each other more on social networks and made the “Friends” section open to other users. Of course, this was done not so much for dating as to increase the time spent visiting the social network, but be that as it may, Durov kept his word. True, he still made sure that a certain part of the people could be hidden at will. At first there were 15 users, then their number was increased to 30.

It is not surprising that questions began to appear online in which users ask how to see hidden friends. This is understandable - what if your boyfriend or girlfriend has a lover/mistress as a friend? Is it possible to do this?

I answer - no, it’s impossible. Of course, unless you are a super hacker who is able to get into someone else's account in a matter of seconds, which, by the way, has long been a criminal offense. I also highly recommend not believing any programs that say, install the utility on your computer and find out all the hidden friends of anyone - this is a scam. Either there is a virus/Trojan hidden in the program, or you will need to send an SMS message to install it. Not free, of course.

However, there is one interesting way that allows you to indirectly determine the number of hidden friends. But I would not dare to trust him 100%, and at the end of the article I will explain why I think so.

So, first we go to the page of the user we need. We look at the number of friends - there are 75 of them. Let's remember this figure, we will need it later.

Now we count the number of female friends. In my case, there were 19 such people.

We already know the total number of friends - there are 75 of them. Now we add up male and female users (50 + 19) and get a figure of 69 people. We subtract 69 from 75 friends and the bottom line is 6 users. Does this mean that the person you want has 6 hidden friends? No, it doesn't actually mean anything. The fact is that banned and deleted users are automatically classified as asexual. Therefore, it is necessary to calculate how many banned and deleted users the user has as friends, subtract their number from the indicated number 6 and get the total number of friends.

Many users of social networks sooner or later face the question of how to protect their privacy on social networks. To do this, you need to set the privacy settings correctly and hide everything that they want to hide from prying eyes. Most often these are contacts of other users. To carry out this action you only need to press a couple of buttons. So let's get started.

After completing all these steps, all the people you have selected will be hidden from prying eyes and visible only to you.