Hello everyone, dear readers of the AFlife.ru blog! VKontakte is not only a popular social network for communication, but also an excellent platform for personal development, promoting ideas and expanding business. And it is best to use public pages for these purposes. But creating a group is one thing, but leading it and solving problems is completely different. In the process of promotion and promotion, its newly appointed administrators often have questions. One of the most popular: how to respond on behalf of the VKontakte community?
From computer
Everything is done via a computer in a few simple steps:
- When you receive a message, you need to go to the “Messages” tab (1) or if you caught the moment when a notification about an incoming message was displayed on your main page, you can click on the notification itself (2)
How to reply to a message on VK via computer - Having fallen into the “Messages” tab, all the dialogs appear.
Dialogues in VK - Opening a dialog with an unread message
Dialogue with an unread message in VK - In the “Write a message...” field, enter the text of the message and VK itself will tell you how to send the entered message. Either by pressing “Enter” once, or by pressing the key combination “Ctrl + Enter”, or by clicking the mouse button on the arrow. We choose one of the options convenient for you.
Reply to a message on VK - If desired, you can supplement your message with files. To do this, you need to click the icon with the image of a paper clip. Attaching an attachment to VK
After the message is sent, you can change it within 24 hours.
Attaching an attachment to VK
How to write a message on VK if your personal account is closed?
By the way, a person does not always want to limit communication with himself. At least sometimes, we noticed how people ask to contact us in a private message with questions. At the same time, they forget that it is closed. Moreover, it closed several years ago, in the desire to hide from everyone. In general, we will not delve into the topic of why and why a person has limited access to himself, or rather to his personal account. We suggest finding “workarounds” and ways out, how to “reach out” to a person without the ability to write him a message.
Apply as a friend by writing a message
Yes, it’s not a fact that a person will accept the application or even see it on time. Think about how often you check your friend requests. But it's worth a try. The instructions are insanely simple.
- Go to the user’s page and below the avatar, click on the “Add as a friend” button. By the way, a person with a private personal account will not have the usual “Write a message” line, so don’t even look for it elsewhere.
- But to send a message, you need to click on the “Application Accepted” . An additional menu with canceling the application and “Write a new message” .
- You express everything you need and send it like a regular letter to VK.
How to add as a friend with a private personal message
Even VK groups and communities can come to help
It is very convenient when you are in the same groups. Although this is not a fundamental issue, it is simply easier to monitor his activity in the news feed.
- If you see a post by the person you want in one of the groups or communities, you can write a comment under his post or ad. Or comment on his statement.
- Of course, it is completely inappropriate to resolve issues in correspondence, in the form of comments under a post. Therefore, write your proposal to open private messages. To help him understand the importance of your message and disable restrictions, you can briefly describe your proposals.
- Just don’t intimidate or disclose, for example, negative news, this will further limit the person’s access to themselves.
- The method is effective, because people will pay attention to the comments because of the notifications. But he has a very small percentage chance of catching the right post in the right place.
You can write a message to a friend’s comment in the group
Friends will help you write a message on VK
A person’s friends can come to the rescue and have the opportunity to write messages even to strangers. But it's better if they are mutual friends. Or you really are an old friend from the school yard who wants to reconnect, but there are no common threads left between you.
- You can write to one of them and ask them to convey a request to unblock private messages. This is the simplest option of this method. But not the most guaranteed. We do not rule out that the request will never reach the addressee.
- A more reliable method would be group messages from friends. Or better yet, even friends of comrades. Ask your mutual friend to create a dialogue in which they will add the person you need.
- Of all the options, this is the most effective. Since messages in VK are checked more often than other notifications. Especially, friend requests often go unattended due to frequent spam or advertising.
- In such a message, if you trust the other interlocutors, you can even raise a topic for discussion. So that a person has an incentive to open a personal account.
How to create a group message
Connect heavy artillery or mention in your group
This method seems to be the most cumbersome and complex. But this is just a deceptive first impression.
- You need to initially create your own group. To do this, go to the groups page and at the very top, under the blue line, you will see a prominent inscription, also blue, “Create a community.” Formalizing and naming is your own business. But for such a mission this is not an absolute necessity.
- The next step requires a number. Again, nothing complicated - just go to the page of the person you need and copy the number that appears in the search bar. We remind you that it consists of two letters id and 9 numbers.
It's easy to create a group
- Now you need to mention this user's name in a post on your group page. To do this, you need to copy the person’s id and paste it into the new entry window. Below the sign for adding a photo, but above the wall of entries, there is a line “Add entry” .
- But there are some subtleties in this matter. In the entry field, enter @, followed by the id number and then the text of the message. By the way, just below the message a window with the avatar of the desired person will immediately appear. Just remember that you need to put a space before the message!
- After all this, he will receive a notification that he was mentioned in the group’s post. But the method does not provide a 100% guarantee. After all, this option has a disadvantage - the notification does not always arrive immediately. And because of this, they will not be able to answer you immediately. Whatever, it may take several days.
How to mention the right person in your group
How to reply to a message on VK via a mobile browser
- Open your mobile browser and go to the “Messages” tab.
Message in the mobile version of VK - All your dialogues appear in the window that opens, go to the one where there are unanswered letters
Unanswered letters in the mobile version of VK - In the message field, enter the text and send
Reply to a message in VK in the mobile version
Posts on your wall
Vivid and interesting posts (stories, pictures, photographs) are the basis for attracting and retaining an audience. It is for these reasons that many subscribers join the group.
The editor or admin will publish posts on the group wall, in accordance with standard settings, on behalf of the community. This can be corrected by clicking on the gear in the message entry window and unchecking the “On behalf of the community” line. If, on the contrary, something went wrong, and instead of the public page, the admin’s profile is displayed by the author of the posts, then you can also correct the situation through the settings by checking the required line.
When you create a discussion, the default author will be your personal profile. To create a new topic on behalf of the public, you need to put o.
It happens a little differently if you need to participate in an already created discussion on behalf of the community. The algorithm of actions is the same as when writing a comment: you need to click on the avatar and select a group.
How to reply to a message on VK via a mobile application
The procedure for sending a message through a mobile application is not much different from those described above. Only the visual interface is different.
- Open the mobile application on your phone
Mobile application in VK - Below on the toolbar, we see that we have an unread message (a cloud with a one). Click on it. We get a page with dialogues. Dialogues in the VK mobile application
- We fall into dialogue with an unanswered letter Dialogue in the VK application with an unanswered letter
- Enter the text of the message and send. Just like from a computer, if you wish, you can attach files to a message by clicking on the paperclip and selecting the files you are interested in. You can attach files to a message in the VK application
- The message has been delivered to the user. This is what a delivered message looks like in the VK application
Private messages
As strange as it may sound, there are two serious limitations when writing personal messages on behalf of a group:
- You can only send a letter to a user who is a member of the community;
- The group itself cannot be the first to start a dialogue with the subscriber.
The only thing the public can do is respond to the message received and then maintain a dialogue. There is no other way to send a personal letter.
Please note that in the group settings, private messages are disabled by default. And for this opportunity to become available to subscribers, it is necessary to enable this option through “Management”.
How to change a sent VKontakte message on a computer?
In the full desktop version of the site this is quite easy to do. In correspondence with the required user, you need to hover your mouse over the message that needs to be edited, and then click on the gray button with a pencil that appears next to this message.
After this, in the same area where a regular message is typed, you can edit the selected letter. To do this, you just need to write the required text, and you can also insert emoticons here, add a photo, or other attachments by clicking on the arrow button. To confirm editing a message, click on the button with a blue checkmark in a circle.
A corresponding gray “(ed.)” mark will appear in the correspondence next to the edited message. Within a certain period of time, this message can be edited and changed again.
