We close our Odnoklassniki page from prying eyes. How to close a VK page from strangers

Lately, users have been asking the question mentioned in the title of this article more and more often. One thing is not clear - what exactly is meant by the expression “hide your page on VK”? However, let's consider all possible options.

In the first case, you can hide some of the information that is available on your page from other users. To do this, you need to use the privacy settings.

Go to your page and select “My Settings” from the menu.

Select the "Privacy" tab. Here, if possible, set the option “Only me” or “No one”. In this case, you can close your page from other users as much as possible. Or select “Friends Only” so that basic information is available to them.

Please pay attention to the “Other” subsection. Here you can make sure that your page is not available to users who are not registered in VK. To do this, in the “Who can see my page on the Internet” item, select “Only VKontakte users”.

Remember that you won’t be able to completely hide your page from other VK users - they can still go to your page, although most of the information will not be visible to them. However, there is one way that will not allow the user to even view your page - this is to block him.

Go to the user's page and scroll down until you see a three-item menu (usually this menu is located under audio or video recordings). Click "Block username".

In this case, the user will be blacklisted and will not be able to communicate with you. This is what he will see when he tries to visit your page:

Of course, it makes sense to block a user only if you decide to end all communication with him.

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How to hide your VKontakte page?

You and I have already talked many times about closing personal information in VK. We were talking about the wall (see how to close a VKontakte wall), interesting pages (see how to hide interesting pages on VK) and groups (see how to hide your groups in VKontakte). Let's move on.

Now I want to show you how to hide your VKontakte page.

How to hide your page from everyone

Go to your account and go to the “Settings” section.

Open the “Privacy” tab. First we need two sections - “My Page” and “Posts on My Page”. For each item we set the value “Only me”.

In the event that you want to leave the page accessible to users who are your friends, set the value to “Friends only”.

If necessary, you can close the possibility of contacting you, through personal messages or in applications (see how to write to VK if your personal account is closed).

To do this, in the “Contact me” section, put the value “Nobody” next to each item.

Now no one will be able to write to you (see how to make a VKontakte message unread).

And the last point that may be of interest to us. At the very bottom of the page, find the “Other” section. Here, for the item “Who can see my page on the Internet,” set the value to “Only VKontakte users.” So that only people registered on the social network can see your profile (see enter contact without registration).

Another way

To hide your page from the user and completely limit his ability to access it, you can block him.

Go to his page and open the menu located under the avatar. Here, click on “Block User”. He will be added to the black list and will lose the ability to view your page (see how to unblock yourself in a friend’s contact).

Video lesson: how to completely hide a VKontakte page

How to hide a page in a contact?

Virtual life on social networks leaves us virtually no chance for any privacy. All your experiences are reflected in statuses, the latest events are reflected in photographs and meetings, and your best friends are reflected in your lists of online friends. But sometimes you really want to be alone. At least on the page of your favorite site. Therefore, today I will tell you about how to hide a page in contact from prying eyes.

How to hide your personal VKontakte page

The developers of the VKontakte website allowed their users to hide the list of communities, photographs, video and audio recordings, the list of friends and gifts, the wall and even the entire page from prying eyes. You just need to select the right privacy settings and turn them on.

This is quite easy to do. To begin, find the “My Settings” section in the left column and open it. Then select the "Privacy" tab. If you want to completely hide the page from prying eyes, then in each of the tab items, select the answers “Only me” and “No one”. If you want to hide not the entire page or not from all friends, carefully read each of the proposed options and select the options that are most suitable for you. You can view the resulting changes by clicking on the link at the very bottom of the page. And don’t forget to save all changes by clicking on the “Save” button.

Enabling additional privacy settings should be done with caution. What if it happens that a good friend or a very old acquaintance finds you on the site, but will not even be able to write a message, let alone send a friend request. Therefore, think carefully before changing anything in the settings. In the end, a social network was invented specifically for communication, so perhaps you should not completely protect yourself and your page from all users of the site.

Enjoy your communication on the World Wide Web!

More and more people are trying to protect their personal Internet space, and the question of how to close a VKontakte page continues to gain popularity. In this case, no additional applications are required; you can selectively or completely hide information using the functionality of the social network.

Where are the privacy settings?

To block access to your VKontakte page from outsiders, you need to set up account privacy. However, this can be done both in the browser and in the mobile application. Therefore, if you decide to close your VKontakte account in 2018, then whether you use the mobile version or the desktop version does not matter.

In the browser you will need:

Open the social network and log in.
On the top panel in the right corner, click the icon with your avatar and name. In the list that appears, click “Settings”.

In the window that opens, there will be a menu on the right, in which “Privacy” is located.

If a user wants to close the “VKontakte” page from strangers (except friends) from their phone, then it’s easier to use the mobile application. By the way, there are ways to view such a closed page - we talk about them in detail in.

On Android, to find the Privacy menu you will need:

Tap the menu icon (three horizontal stripes) in the lower right corner.

Click on the gear icon located at the top right.

Tap the “Privacy” icon (open palm).

Now you can close the “VKontakte” page from other users; this is done for each section and block separately.

If a user wants to quickly close his VKontakte page from everyone except friends, then at the bottom of the “Privacy” menu, set the account type to “Private”.

What blocks of personal information can be hidden

You can close either the entire page or individual sections. The social network has divided all personal information into several blocks:

Basic account information.
Lists of friends and subscribers. This is a custom field, so you can clear your friends list if necessary.
List
Audio recordings.
Photos in which the user is tagged. Moreover, note that you can hide the profile completely or on the page.
Saved photos. This is a rather strange service section. Therefore, if you don’t store anything important there, simply or one image at a time.
Groups.
Present.
Location in photos.
Posts on the wall. By the way, if you simply don’t need them, don’t clog up your account. You can always just get rid of the “garbage”.

Separately, it is worth highlighting such a point as "Page Visibility on the Internet". If you select “Visible only to social network users”, then unauthorized users will not see anything except the first name, last name and a famous dog instead of an avatar.

From whom can a page or piece of information be closed?

The functionality of the social network will allow you to configure each section separately. It won’t be a problem to hide the list of classmates from work colleagues, and leave the wall open only for relatives. For each section, you can configure several types of permissions to see/comment/write:

"Only Me"- the setting allows you to completely hide a separate section from other people.
"Some Friends" .
"All users" .
"Everything except..."- used to hide some information from several individual users. In order to completely hide an account, it is more convenient to blacklist inconvenient people.
"Only Friends". Most often, users want to make a page (account) on VK closed to all strangers except friends, so they choose this particular setting.
"Some Lists" .
"Friends and Their Friends" .

How to freeze or delete an account

If you set all the settings in the “Privacy” menu in the most strict way and do not visit your account, then the social network will delete it after 1-3 months. To avoid deletion, you should at least occasionally log in to your account.

How to check what others see

In the “Privacy” menu on the last line there is a button “Check”, with which you can see your account through the eyes of other people.

Thus, the functionality of the social network opens up several ways to close the “VKontakte” page, permanently and temporarily. A user can reveal personal information to only a few friends, hide their wall from colleagues, or hide their friendship with a person from others.

Hello friends!

Today we will touch on the issue of confidentiality on VKontakte. Against the backdrop of recent high-profile scandals related to the arrests of users for reposting and saved pictures, in 2018, the functionality of VK was added, or rather, the ability to completely restrict access to your page was returned.

Let's figure out how to close a VKontakte page and protect yourself from unpleasant incidents.

There are currently two levels of privacy settings.

Profile type

Here you can choose only two modes: “Open” - all users will be able to visit your page and “Closed” - no one except friends will be able to visit your profile.

Flexible privacy settings

With their help you can do incredible things. If you wish, you can adjust the options so that each of your friends will display your page differently. Flexible privacy settings allow you to hide only some personal elements and not make your entire account secret.

Using a combination of the tools described, you can easily protect your personal information from prying eyes. Full settings functionality is available both from a computer and from a phone.

There is a whole section dedicated to privacy options in your account settings. It contains 27 parameters that you can adjust to your liking.

The most uncompromising of them is “Profile Type”. With its help, you can completely block unfamiliar users from visiting your page in two clicks.

To hide your personal data from everyone, go to your account settings.

Go to the “Privacy” section and scroll to the bottom of the page. In the “Profile Type” column, set the mode to “Closed”.

In response to an attempt to make your profile private, you will receive a message stating that the restrictions will also apply to subscribers. Confirm your intentions with the click of a button.

All changes in the “Privacy” section are saved automatically, so you are already in VK in hidden mode. It's up to you to close the page forever or use this function as a temporary measure.

On my own behalf, I will say that social networks were originally created as a means of communication and bringing people together. They continue to pursue this goal today. So, by climbing into such a “shell”, you will protect yourself from making new acquaintances and communicating with interesting people.

How other users see your page

What does a closed page mean for other members of a social network? This means that your profile information is no longer visible to anyone except your friends. A subscriber, registered or unregistered person on a social network will not see detailed information about you, but some things will still be available to them.

Namely:

main photo (can only be viewed in a reduced size);
status, if any;
marking “online” or time of last visit to VKontakte;
number of friends, including mutual ones;
number of entries and gifts;
personal information, if filled in (date of birth, city of residence, education, etc.).

On VKontakte you can hide your friends so that they do not appear in the list. Read more about this in a separate article.

How can I prevent this information from being displayed? To do this, you will have to erase some data. Go to the “Basic” section on the personal data editing page. Select “Do not show date of birth.” On the “Contacts” tab, remove the city of your residence or replace it with a fictitious one.

Clean up the remaining partitions in a similar manner and don't forget to save the results at the end.

Now your once public page has acquired powerful protection. It can only be accessed through your consent.

If you need to hide account information from only one member of a social network, then the fastest and most effective way is to add him to the blacklist. Go to the page of the person who needs to be added to the emergency situation. Click the ellipsis button and select “Block” from the pop-up menu.

After making all the necessary settings, you can go to your page and view it from the perspective of a stranger. This is done using a special function available to everyone. It is located in the same section in which we chose the profile type.

At the very bottom there is a text asking you to check whether your privacy settings are correct. By clicking on the blue link, you will be taken to observer mode and see what your account looks like from the outside.

Previously, it was possible to view “through the eyes” of an unregistered person, an unfamiliar member of a social network, or any of your friends. Unfortunately, at the moment the only option left is to view as an unfamiliar user.

How to view a private profile

Viewing a private profile, like a closed community on VKontakte, is only possible if its owner accepts your application. Otherwise, you won’t be able to see anything except a miniature avatar and the person’s full name.

Writing a personal message on VK if the page is closed will also not work until you become a friend.

I beg you, do not try your luck by using various services and programs that promise you to get to a closed page using your ID. You won’t get access to the profile you need, but you’ll easily run into problems.

You will not be able to see the latest updates and latest news from a closed account. But there is also good news. You can find an archived version of the web page on the Internet and view it in the form in which it was before it was closed.

Saved copy in search engines

If the user hid his account only recently, then there is a possibility that search engines still have a version of the open web page.

To check for a saved copy, you will need the full URL of your VK profile. Copy it and paste it into the search bar of your favorite search engine.

As a result, you will receive a list of found social network pages. To the right of each URL is a small triangle arrow. Click on it and open the saved copy of your account in the drop-down list.

If the account you need is not found, try your luck in other search engines. Didn't it work there too? Then the only hope is the web archive.

Internet Archive Wayback Machine

This is a service that pursues an impossible goal - to collect archived copies of all Internet web pages in its storage. This saves all changes made on the site.

This means that if a VKontakte user made his profile private, then somewhere in the archive an open version of the web page could be saved.

Go to the service website and copy the URL of the hidden page from VK into a special field.

If the requested web page is in the archive, the service will provide the opportunity to view all its versions. The navigation is made in the form of a calendar, so you can select any date and see all the entries that have ever been posted on the page. Using the web archive, I found posts that had been removed from the wall a long time ago.

Using WayBack Machine you can even view deleted social network accounts.

Conclusion

It turned out to be quite difficult to fit a description of all privacy options into one article, and besides, it is not necessary, because it is in the article about

Therefore, if you decide that a private profile is not for you, be sure to read this article and set up your account for the most comfortable stay on the social network.

See you in new blog articles.

Odnoklassniki users can often observe the presence of unfamiliar “Guests” on their pages or unwanted comments under personal photos, statuses, or in forum discussions. “Guests” who visit your profile do not always have benevolent intentions. Sometimes this is how information is obtained.

But the account user can protect himself from unauthorized intrusion and close his page with a “lock.” It should be said right away that this function is paid. You cannot close your profile for free. You should have Oki on your account - this is a virtual currency with which in Odnoklassniki you can:

buy and give gifts;
purchase bonuses in games and applications;
participate in various quizzes and tournaments;
close profile;
buy an invisible one;
rate photos 5+;
pay for the opportunity to use cool emoticons.

Closing our own page from strangers

A function that allows you to close your profile from prying eyes is located on the main page under a large photo of the owner. We look a little lower and find a line with a lock “Close profile”.

Click on this item and proceed to pay for the service, but first the system will ask you for confirmation.

If you came here by mistake, click the “Cancel” button or the cross in the upper right corner. If you want to close the page, confirm the action with the “Close profile” button. A window will appear in which we apply the “Proceed to Payment” action.

By clicking the “Other functions” button we order other services.

But there will be a separate topic for this. We are now closing the profile. By clicking the “Proceed to Payment” button, the user opens a window in which he must select a payment method:

From a bank card.
Via terminal.
From the phone.
Electronic payment.

A phone number is assigned to the page on the network, but if you want to make a payment from a different number, you need to click on the “Change number” line.

You won’t be able to use someone else’s unknown number, since an SMS code will be sent to the specified phone number, which you will need to enter in the appropriate field. If you pay by card, fill in the required details.

As soon as the money arrives in your account, your profile will be closed. But the user can open it whenever he wants.

What can you do for free?

A user who is unable to pay for the service can place restrictions on his page that prohibit strangers from:

write messages in private;

Many people are now asking the question of how to close a page in Contact? I want to disappoint you - no way. Since February 11, the developers of this social network have opened access to the statuses and pages of all system participants for all registered users. It is now impossible to hide your page in Contact. This was officially stated by the web developer of this portal Vasily Babich.

Each user who has an account on this social network can now easily view the personal information of other participants. This includes photographs, statuses, videos, audio compositions, wall posts, notes, gifts, as well as the entire list of friends. This applies to all data that users made public during registration, while limiting the ability to navigate to their page as a whole. These innovations made it impossible for profile owners to completely close their Contact page.

This information was also fully confirmed by the head of the press service of the social network, Vladislav Tsyplukhin, to representatives of RIA Novosti. When asked how to close a page in Contact, he stated that this is truly impossible, and such an innovation has a place to be. And this is not a system error. The decision was made consciously by the portal’s management. He made no further comments.

As for the founder of the VKontakte resource, Pavel Durov warned all users a week before in his blog. He announced upcoming changes to privacy settings. According to him, such a solution can make the social network much clearer and more consistent. And so that the user does not search for how to close a page in Contact, but communicates with friends.

Open registration for new participants has also been cancelled. Now you can register only based on the invitation of a limited circle of VKontakte participants. So to everyone who asks how to close a page in Contact, I answer - it is impossible.