Good day, dear friends! If you are an active user of social networks, then you have participated in dialogues with friends more than once. But perhaps you don’t yet know that you can organize general correspondence, communicate with a group of people at the same time, and add to the dialogue not only those who are on your friends list.
This function may be relevant in many situations. For example, this is convenient when you urgently need to discuss an important issue with several people at once. You don’t have to correspond with each person separately, sending the words of one user to another, conducting such dialogues in parallel.
We will talk about how to create a VKontakte conversation in this article.
By starting a conversation with one user, you create a dialogue. If in addition to one person, add several more, then a conversation will take place.
How to create a conversation on VK from a computer
There are two ways to create a conversation on VK from a computer. 1st - create from scratch, 2nd - add interlocutors to the old correspondence.
First way . Go through the left menu to Messages, click the plus sign at the top right.
Check the boxes next to your friends to add them, upload a userpic if you wish, give a name to the conversation - this will allow you to quickly find it among the many messages.
After clicking the Create button, start chatting. If you do not specify the title and image of the conversation, they will be formed automatically: the title will be the name of the first friend in alphabetical order, the image will be a cut of 4 avatars.
Second way . Go into a conversation with a friend, click the three dots at the top, select Add interlocutors.
New conference participants will not see this friend’s previous messages; the next ones will be visible until you exclude them from the conversation.
As you can see, creating a VK conversation takes 3-4 simple steps.
How many people can you add? The maximum number of participants will not exceed 250 people.
If you use VKontakte messages, there will be nothing new in the conversation settings. Participants can exchange files, images, voice messages, maps, emoticons, etc. When you need to find information, search will help. Magnifying glass icon to the right of the title. Search by words, date - use when you don’t remember what day the message was written.
The settings do not differ from the standard ones. Click the three dot icon (circled in red) to see the settings.
Add interlocutors - add friends to the conference until the number of participants reaches 250.
Change the name of the conversation - change the name of the topic, all participants will see the new name.
Change conversation photo - change the conference avatar, all participants will see it.
Show attachments —attached files will be displayed.
Searching through message history is convenient when you can’t find important information.
Disable notifications - there will be no notifications or sounds, you will remain a participant in the conference in contact.
Clear message history - delete history, close dialog. When a new message from a participant arrives, the conference dialog will be displayed again.
Leave the conversation - you will no longer receive notifications from participants and you will leave the chat.
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How to mention a person on VKontakte in a conversation? This function may be useful in some cases. This procedure is easy to perform; our article will analyze the entire scheme in detail.
Social networks have become a part of our lives. In recent years, they have replaced other communication services, and people even make phone calls less and less often. Now there are several portals in this category, but VK is considered the most popular.
Why did this site become the leader among social networks? We list the probable reasons:
- The portal was initially aimed at a young audience who are highly active on the Internet.
- The resource was promoted correctly on the network.
- Users invited their friends to communicate with them on this site.
- The site offers many useful features.
- You can gather all your friends on one portal for easy communication.
- It is proposed to create your own photo library and select the best tracks for it.
- There are many groups, you can find a community of interests among them.
- The list of functions is constantly increasing, specialists are working on the development of the social network.
One useful feature for users is mentions. Why is this function necessary at all?
- Manages to mention a person in a post or conversation.
- Provide a link to it for the convenience of other users.
- This person will receive a notification about the mention.
- The function is quite convenient and can be useful in many cases.
How to mention a person in a conversation on VK? This is quite simple to do; our article will provide an algorithm of actions.
How to create a conversation on VK from a phone or mobile version
It’s easy to create a VK conversation from your phone using the official Android or iPhone application. Go to Messages, click the pencil in the bottom right, then Create.
Check the boxes next to your friends list and click the checkmark at the top. That's it, creating a conference is quick and easy!
In the mobile version of m.vk.com, creating a VKontakte conversation on a tablet is as easy as through a computer. In the Messages section, click Write (1), Create (2) at the top.
Add interlocutors and communicate.
Application
- It is much more convenient to use than the mobile version of VK.
- The application has been released for popular platforms.
- The program is constantly updated and gets better every month.
- It doesn't consume many resources.
- The program is suitable for various smartphones and works well on devices with low performance.
- The application allows you to quickly exchange messages.
- It provides notifications for your convenience.
- You can master the program within a few minutes.
How to tag a person on VK in a conversation in the application? At the time of writing, there is no such function in the program. If you start typing the @ sign with a name, the application will not respond to it in any way.
Why haven't the developers yet added the mention function to the official client? The exact reasons for this are unknown. It is possible that such a function cannot be implemented in the program at this stage. It is possible that it will be added to the application in the future.
In the meantime, you can use one of the available methods:
- Go to the browser on your smartphone to make a mention on the mobile version.
- Use a computer and the full version of the site.
You learned about the available ways to mention a person and the algorithm of actions. Study the diagram carefully and try to create a hyperlink with a name using our instructions.
Do you urgently need to create a conversation in contact, and you don’t know how? No problem! Read this article and in a couple of minutes you will have a conversation!
To begin with, a few words about why conversations in contact are needed in general
Often conversations are created as part of a training for the participants to quickly respond and discuss common issues; You can also create conversations with several people to work with a client when consultation from several specialists is needed (this makes sense when we are talking about an expensive product); You can also create a conversation to just chat or, for example, it could be a group of students from the same stream to exchange news.
How to create a VK conversation not with friends
Due to VKontakte restrictions, add only friends . Thanks to this, users do not receive mountains of spam, but how to add a person who is not your friend? Add there a friend who has the required person in his friends list, then he will invite him at your request. If you don't have a mutual friend, message his friends until someone agrees. Motivation varies, from the desire to help to material gain - promise money. Pay such a person, add him as a friend, add him to the chat, and he will add the right person.
How to set up a conference call?
Basic conference call settings are automatically set by the program itself. The user can only change the name of the chat and add or remove interlocutors if he is the creator of the group. To do this you need:
- Enter the created chat;
- Click on the name (by default “Nameless chat”);
- In the menu that opens, click on the name, change it and save;
- In the list of participants, find those users who will be removed from the chat and click on the “Delete” button that appears when hovered over;
- Click on the “Add people” button and select the ones you need from the contact list.
How to remove a person from a conversation on VK
Enter the chat. Click the number of participants at the top or the conversation avatar. In a new window you will see information about the organizer, the name of the topic, a list of participants, and the name of the inviter. There is a cross next to the name; when clicked, the participant is removed.
The creator of a VKontakte conversation can exclude any participant, the rest only those who were invited.
If the person left on his own, wait until he enters again and remove the person this time forever. If you change your mind, add again.
How to add a contact
There are several ways to invite participants to a conversation on social media. networks. You can use the conversation menu.
- To do this, click on the menu at the top of the page and select the first item “Add a companion.”
- After opening a window with a list of your friends, you need to select a participant by checking the box next to his name.
To invite your friends to a conversation in another way, there is a special conversation menu item - “Link to conversation”.
Click on it. A small window will open with a link. You need to copy and paste it in messages with your friends. This will take them to the conversation page.
How to create a conversation in a VK group
There is no point in creating a conversation with community subscribers or group members - for this there is an open discussion on the group wall or a personal newsletter. For these purposes, also use chatbots. The first mass mailing to group members was carried out by group Bi-2, which went through in 2-3 seconds.
Use the wall when you want to share with your subscribers.
Creating a VKontakte conversation with one person is a regular dialogue. And chatting with yourself is like writing a message to yourself. If difficulties arise, read How to write a message on VKontakte.
Communication formats for multiple participants
There are two options for talking via Skype with several participants at once. This is an audio conference when the interlocutors only hear each other, but do not see. And video conferencing, in which case the conversation takes place using the device’s webcam.
Video conference
To make a group call using video, you must:
- Go to the messenger and select the desired group conversation;
- In the chat that opens, click the video camera icon;
- Wait for the participants to respond.
During such a conversation, the interlocutors will see and hear each other.
Audio conference
To make a call to several interlocutors at once using audio only, that is, to create an audio conference, you must:
- Log in to Skype and open a chat with the desired group of friends;
- In the chat that opens, click the handset icon;
- Wait for the interlocutors to respond.
An audio conference does not allow you to see the faces of the interlocutors, only to hear and transmit the voice.
Group text chats
In addition to voice and video communication, the Skype messenger also includes a text communication function. In this format, the interlocutors will neither hear nor see each other, but can communicate via text messages. To start such a chat, you just need to open or create a group, write something in the text chat and send a message.
