The Internet has long opened up unlimited opportunities for communication. The creators of the Odnoklassniki website were able to streamline these opportunities and make them accessible, convenient, and interesting on one resource.
Originally created so that users can find those with whom they studied, worked or were friends, the site gradually grew to a high-quality and full-fledged social portal. Currently, the Odnoklassniki social network is used by approximately 50 million people, which is one third of the Russian population. About 10 million users visit the site daily, which indicates the extremely high popularity of the Internet resource.
Why is the site so popular?
“Classmates. ru »- a social network with a bright interface, convenient navigation and many services and sections, allowing you to not only find your
old friends, classmates, colleagues and colleagues, but also post your photos and favorite music. And also to find like-minded people and join communities of interest, where you can find a lot of useful information and share your knowledge. Thanks to this, it is easy and convenient to turn your profile in Odnoklassniki into a cozy and colorful world of your own, where it is so nice to chat with old friends, make new friends and share your hobbies and interests with people who are close in spirit.
Odnoklassniki: a bit of history
The Odnoklassniki social network has long become a part of our lives. Hardly anyone now remembers the times when this portal did not exist. In fact, the site appeared not so long ago. Its creator, programmer Albert Popkov, began work on it in 2000. The work went on for quite some time and was not easy. The project started in March 2006, and by the summer about 9 million people were registered on the site.
At first, registration was paid, but since 2008 the fee has been canceled, which attracted even more users to Odnoklassniki.
According to Popkov himself, the site did not bring any profit until 2009, when numerous advertisers did not come here as the social network expanded. Only then did developer income begin to grow.
The founder and his team had a hard time: in addition to the fact that Odnoklassniki generated a lot of rumors and suspicions about their belonging to the special services, Popkov was accused of plagiarism by an English company, where he began developing the project. However, he managed to prove that Odnoklassniki have no analogues abroad, since the resource was created taking into account all the peculiarities of the Russian mentality.
Despite all the troubles, the portal’s popularity is growing steadily, and now the site is one of the three most visited network resources. At the moment, the Odnoklassniki website is owned by Mail.Ru, due to which more and more convenient services are being created for its visitors.
Registration at Odnoklassniki
The site offers many opportunities for interesting and versatile communication. After registration, the following options and services become available to the user:
- Convenient and quick search for friends, colleagues, classmates (for this it is enough to indicate the school number, educational institution or place of work);
- the ability to upload your favorite photos and rate photos of users;
- convenient correspondence with friends and acquaintances, both in chat and in private channels;
- the opportunity to chat and make new friends;
- the right to share your favorite music and videos with friends;
- the ability to join various interest communities.
To begin to communicate in a diverse and full-fledged manner, it is enough to go through several stages of registration:
- Go on the website. Until the moment of registration it will be closed, only the "Registration" button will be available.
- After clicking on it, a registration form will appear.
- You need to fill out this form, indicating gender, name and surname, date of birth and city of residence.
- Come up with a username and password (they should be quite complicated, since the pages of users of social networks are often hacked).
- Click on the button "Register at Odnoklassniki".
And that’s all! Address www. Classmates (the social network of your dreams) will become available. And the user will have the opportunity to fill out their profile and start chatting. However, before this you need to make a confirmation in order to gain access to all the services and services of the site. To do this, you need:
- Go to Odnoklassniki and open a profile activation notification.
- An activation form will appear where you need to indicate your phone number and confirm it.
- After some time, an SMS message with a unique code will come to the specified number, which must be entered in the proposed field.
- Confirm the code, then use unlimited opportunities for communication.
Paid services
The Odnoklassniki social network provides the basic and most necessary services for free. But to make their virtual world even more convenient and comfortable, visitors can use paid services. They are paid using OKs. OK - the virtual currency of this resource, a bonus unit that can be used to purchase various options in games and applications on the site, as well as to pay for services.
You can replenish your virtual bonus account by credit card or via SMS, after specifying the rate of money conversion to OKi.
OKami you can pay for the following services:
- “Gift to the user” (at the same time, you can connect the option “All inclusive” or “Music for gifts”).
- "Closed profile" (only friends can see the information, and only they can write messages).
- "Grade 5+" (will help express this or that user their special sympathy).
- “Additional emoticons” (will make communication even more lively and interesting).
- "Invisibility" (allows you to go to the pages of users incognito).
Odnoklassniki - social network: mobile version
The developers of one of the most popular Internet resources do not stand still: now users of the site can communicate at any time and in any place thanks to the mobile version of Odnoklassniki. What it is?
The mobile version of the site “m.ok.ru” provides the same features as for the PC. By downloading the Odnoklassniki application on the phone, the user will be able to:
- quickly receive and send messages, even using emoticons;
- View and upload photos
- listen and download music;
- make friends and make new friends;
- Receive instant notifications from the site;
- to be always online.
All that is needed is a working mobile Internet.
Compatibility
The Odnoklassniki application works great on phones with the following operating systems:
- Android
- iOS (iPad, iPhone).
- Windows Phone
Install the application on your phone as follows:
- Go to the site "m.ok.ru".
- Find at the bottom of the screen the inscription "Download the application" Classmates "!" and click on it.
- The application will be instantly installed on your phone, and you can start chatting!
Odnoklassniki social network is a bright, attractive and convenient social resource that will never let you get bored and will not let you lose contact with your dear and close people.