It's no secret that the VKontakte social network was originally created as a Russian adaptation of the Facebook service. This approach turned out to be correct, and Pavel Durov, the creator of this social network, was able to become a millionaire, and hundreds of thousands of people began to apply to his personal page on VKontakte. It was thanks to the function "Add as friends", which was adopted from Facebook, the social network grew so fast.
How did the function "Subscribe to users"?
Each person invited all his friends to this site to add to his list of friends. This went on for quite some time until the VKontakte administration decided on a new step that was supposed to solve pressing problems, namely, an overabundance of friends among some users. Specifically, some users had more than ten thousand friends on one account. According to the rules of VKontakte or because of technical restrictions, more applications could not be submitted to this person. Therefore, we came up with a subscription model. It means that you will receive all the news from this person’s page in your news feed. In this case, you will not be listed in the list of his friends, but only in the list of subscribers.
What happened next?
A function has appeared in the profile settings that allows you to disable the ability to add to friends, and instead leave only the "Subscribe" button. The reasons for such actions can be very different - these can be the pages of a very popular person who is tired of applications from strangers. Or this function may be needed by an asocial person who does not want to communicate, but uses a social network for the sake of publics with interesting content.
But in the same way that people want to clear the list of friends on a social network, many want to unsubscribe from subscribers. To some, they may seem annoying, some are just fed up with constant notifications from them. Subscribers also receive all new information from your page. Yes, you can not publish too personal materials or very strictly adjust the privacy settings in your profile, but this is also not a panacea. In view of this, let's find out how to remove subscribers from the VKontakte social network.
"Good way"
This option is suitable for those who have, for example, two or three subscribers, but have a certain interest in how to delete subscribers in VK. In this case, you can simply go to the personal page of each of them and click the "Write a private message" button. And then politely ask to unsubscribe, stating the reasons for your decision. Of course, many people may not agree to fulfill your request, but you should still keep this method in mind, and here's why you can get rid of a subscriber on VKontakte without his consent by adding him to the black list for at least twenty minutes. Therefore, if you have only a couple of subscribers and, perhaps, these are your friends, try this “good way” first. After all, who knows what will come to their head when they see that they are blocked. Thus, if the subscriber is not completely indifferent to you, just write to him with a request to unsubscribe from you.
A couple of reasons why you should not delete the subscription database
If you are going to delete all your followers without their consent - this is your right. Let's give just a couple of reasons that may make you abandon this decision.
If you ever looked for someone in the search for "VKontakte", you probably noticed a button that allows you to determine the sort order of the list of people. By default, there is the setting "By popularity". The more you have the number of subscribers and the higher their activity on your page, the more VKontakte considers you popular. This means that you will be much higher on the list. Why do you need this? For example, if you have a fairly popular first and last name, like Ivan Ivanov, then there will be thousands of people on the social network with the same first and last name. The higher your page is in the list, the higher the likelihood that your old friends will find you.
Delete subscribers without their consent
Well, maybe you want the exact opposite, so let's figure out how to remove subscribers to VK. To get started, open your page on the VKontakte social network in a computer browser. Various information will be displayed on the main screen, among which there will be a section "Subscribers" and a figure indicating the number of subscribers. Click on this block. A window will appear with a slider in which all your subscribers will be displayed. Hover over any of them. A small black cross will appear, clicking on which, you will block this specific user. After clicking on the cross, this subscriber will be blacklisted and disappear from the list of followers. But if you immediately remove it from the emergency, it will again be displayed in the same place. Therefore, if you do not want to keep these people forever in an emergency, you must wait at least twenty minutes and only then remove them from the black list. To do this, just go to the profile settings, then select the "Black List" and you will see all the people who are added there. If twenty minutes have already passed since adding, you can safely remove them from there one at a time - they will no longer be listed as your subscribers.
How to remove VKontakte subscribers through an application on a smartphone?
If you have a phone based on the Android operating system, IOS or Windows Phone, then simply launch the VK application and open your profile. If you don’t know how to see subscribers, scroll down a bit and see the “Subscribers” tab - you will need to open it. Then you need to select a specific person by tap on the screen, this will transfer you to his page. After that, click on the vertical ellipsis in the upper right corner of the screen and select the "Block" option. Perform this operation with everyone you want to delete, and after 20 minutes in the profile settings, remove them from the black list.
Unfortunately, if you were interested in how to delete all subscribers at once with one button - you have to upset. This button does not exist, and you must delete each individually.