Many want to know how to hide VKontakte friends. This article will talk about how to do this.
A few years ago, in a special tab, among the many settings, it was possible to choose whether you want the list of your friends to be available to other users. However, one fine (and for some - not very) day Pavel Durov, together with his fellow administrators, decided that now no one could hide VK friends. At least completely. This, of course, upset many, but everyone continued to use the social network.
Want to know how to hide Vkontakte friends? First of all, you must understand that only a list of 30 people can be made inaccessible to other users. There is nothing confidential about hiding friends. Let's move on to phased actions.
How to hide VKontakte friends
Firstly, you need to go to your page in the social network. After that, open the settings section. By default, “General” settings will be selected there, but we will need the “Privacy” tab. Here you can restrict user access to certain parts of your page. Among the many features, find the one called "Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions." It is in seventh place (for speed, you can use the search on the page).
At the moment, you have probably selected "All Users". To change this, you need to click on this setting and select "All but ..." in the list that appears. After that, a window will appear in which you can drag from the left column to the right all the users that you want to hide. To do this, simply click on their names.
Once the list of friends whom you want to hide from the eyes of other users has been created, click the "Save Changes" button. All! Now no one will know that in the list of your contacts is Petya Ivanov or Masha Sidorova.
It may be that the number of friends on the VKontakte website does not exceed 10 of you. In this case, it will be possible to hide all friends, and no user will be able to find out with whom you are talking.
If you want to hide the list of your friends only from certain users, then this is provided for by the administration of the VKontakte site. In the same tab, select the function that is under the one we just used. It is called "Who Can See My Hidden Friends." By default, Only Me is selected. By clicking on this label, you can change this setting. Here the number of users is not limited. Another thing is that you can only choose friends or friends of friends. Do not forget to click on the “Save Changes” button before exiting the “Settings”.
Well, now you know how to hide VKontakte friends. It should only be understood that restrictions are imposed for their own safety. The same applies to changing the name "Vkontakte", and many other settings. All this is designed to save users of the social network from spamming, illegal activities, distribution of prohibited materials and other things.
We hope this article has helped you learn something new and useful.