How to hide friends in VK

The social network "VKontakte" is a runet space that is visited by about 43 million people a day (according to data for February 2013). What allows you to make a "Contact"? Find a person, chat with him, share files, watch movies and listen to music. The developers of the site and its administration regularly make updates that make using the service even more comfortable. But not all users know about them. In this article we will tell you how to hide friends in VK.

Friend list. Category setting

All contacts with which you are “friends” on the site can be divided into categories for easy search and navigation. How to do it?

1. We go to the site with your username and password.
2. We open the section "My friends".
3. Here is a list of all contacts. Next to each of them there is an additional menu ("Write a message", "View friends" and so on). Select the link “Configure Lists”.
4. A menu opens that offers you to choose the available categories: "University", "Family", "Colleagues". Choose the one you need.
5. If you want to create your own list, then pay attention to the right side of the page, all available sections are listed there and the last line says "Create list". We choose, invent a name and add friends.
   

How to make your friends list invisible?

How to hide friends in VK After all, sometimes you want to leave some people from the list visible only to yourself, and not put on public display. Several years ago, this could be done by clicking on one link. Moreover, it was possible to make invisible both the whole list, and several specific people. Now, according to the rules of the site, this is impossible. Can I hide VKontakte friends now? To begin with, at the moment the maximum number of contacts that can be hidden is 30 people. The invisible list procedure itself is quite simple:

1. We go to the "My Settings" section.
2. In the upper horizontal menu, select "Privacy".
3. We find in the first half of the page the phrase "Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions."
4. A window opens, divided into two parts: on the left is the entire list of your friends, and on the right is hidden contacts (unless, of course, you have them).
5. To add a person to the list of invisibles, on the left side of the field we find the desired contact (manually by scrolling with the mouse or using the search bar) and click on the “+” sign next to it. Done!
6. Enter all the users you want to hide. As soon as the limit is
   
   reached, the system will display a message about it.

Now you know how to hide friends in VK. But what if a friend needs to be hidden for certain users? In the same section where we were earlier, immediately after the line “Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions” follows “Who sees my hidden friends”. There you can configure those users who will still see those whom you hid from public viewing. In addition to these subtleties, there are many others that greatly simplify the work in a social network. In this article, we examined how to hide friends in VK.