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Every day on the social network VKontakte millions of user letters are sent to interlocutors. Some of them convey important information, others are small talk with friends, but there is a separate caste of messages created solely for fun. This article will tell you how to send an empty message on VK so that the interlocutor will be surprised.
What does it look like
When you first encounter such a “trick,” you don’t immediately understand what’s going on. There seems to be a letter, but there is no text in it. This is strange, so after sending such a message, questions immediately begin to pour in: what, how, why and why?
This is a completely logical reaction to a “picture” of this kind:
It’s worth saying right away that you shouldn’t try to send such a message by putting a lot of spaces in it. This won't work.
Other features
In addition to personal messages, it is possible to conduct group chats, make them secret, send mail to several users at once, write to people who are not in your contacts list, and much more.
You can play with fonts using certain combinations. For example, italics can be achieved by separating each word with an underscore (_italics_); bold font - asterisks; crossed out - with a tilde sign (~). The functions of voice SMS, GIFs, and a huge number of editing tools for photos and videos help make the dialogue come alive.
But having played with all the possibilities, we want something new, surprising and even a little forbidden. And the search engine for the request: how to send an empty message in Whatsapp, again returns pages with non-working life hacks? But not here, we hope we answered the main question of the article.
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How to send an empty VK message
If you are interested in the opportunity to make fun of your friends, you can move on to practice. There is no need to download any computer programs for this. Simply follow the instructions below step by step.
- Log in to your VKontakte account.
- Go to the “Friends” tab.
- We select the person on whom we will test the function and click on the “Write a message” button.
- In the window that appears, enter and click the “Submit” button.
- To check if everything worked out, you need to go to Dialogues and open the first conversation in the list.
All that remains is to wait until the interlocutor opens the received letter.
Important! An empty message will only be visible to your recipient. Your symbol will appear.
Step-by-step instruction
A common mistake is that people think that they can send such a message by entering several or even one space. In reality, it will not be possible to create an empty letter in this way - the system simply will not allow you to send it.
Each key has a specific code, which the program reads and inserts in its place the corresponding letter that is visible to the user. If you put together the right combination of symbols, you can send an invisible message.
The most common code option is . Let's look at the solution to the problem using his example. For this:
- go to the “Messages” tab;
- select the person to whom you want to send the letter;
- enter this combination of characters into the field;
- send it, see the result.
We will see the text as it is. But the recipient will see something completely different, or rather, nothing at all. The ghost message looks like this:
There are many such codes. We recommend using only this one, especially since there is no difference between them. If you are on your phone, you need to do the same thing and insert the specified characters into the text input field. You send, and your interlocutor will not see anything again.
From phone
If the main device for communicating on social networks is a smartphone, then you can use it to send. There is no fundamental difference in this, and the scheme of action is almost the same.
To send a message from a smartphone you need:
- Log into your account through the VKontakte application or through any mobile browser. Open your friends list.
- Select the desired user and go to his page.
- Next, you need to click the “Message” button.
- Enter the same combination of characters – “ ” – and click the “Submit” button.
- We evaluate the result.
Message sent. From the instructions it is clear that the whole secret is in the combination of characters that is entered into the letter field. Moreover, an infinite number of such letters can be sent. However, after the 5th identical message you will have to enter a captcha.
Why do we need empty messages on VKontakte?
The use of empty messages has long been practiced by most advanced users and I use this feature for my needs:
- A joke or prank on a friend.
- An important reminder to the interlocutor so that he remembers that he owes or promised you something.
- Leave an empty comment in a public page or on a friend’s wall.
- Just show off to your friends.
- Put a tag on the photo (if you leave an empty comment, then it’s much easier to find this photo or post using such a tag)
- And there are many many more use cases.
Everyone finds their own reason for using this type of message, let’s still look at how to make an empty message on VK from a computer and an iPhone or Android mobile phone.
Why are symbols visible in the text?
Despite the fact that the mechanism for sending a letter is simple, users sometimes get confused. Especially if after clicking the “Submit” button they see this:
Seeing this, the main thing is not to panic. And especially not to say that you can no longer trust instructions from the Internet. The trick really worked. To verify this, you just need to refresh the page. And then the message, as promised, will become empty.
Yes, sometimes failures may occur, but only for the sender. The recipient will never see what combination of characters was sent to him.
How and why invisible messages work
In VKontakte it is built in that you will not be able to send an empty message, even if you put 1000 spaces. In addition, the program assumes that only one space and one line break are valid. Try it yourself after a few words, make a few spaces, and then start writing the next paragraph only a few lines later. You won't succeed. VK will equalize everything.
But the space has a special character code, which the social network itself recognizes as a space, but nevertheless considers it a regular character. Therefore, if you want to trick the system and make several line breaks, then you can use this symbolic code.
I don't know if they will close this feature or leave it alone, but for now it works great and you can write to anyone this way. It’s just a pity that it doesn’t work in apps.
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Let's sum it up
You can find other secret combinations of symbols on the network that activate the VK error. For example, “ᅠ”, “ ”, etc. (for everything to work, they need to be copied without the “”). However, the effect will be the same. Therefore, here is the shortest code for sending dummies.
This is not to say that this feature is useful. Funny, interesting, unusual - yes. Therefore, by discovering the secret of sending empty SMS, you can get an additional incentive to surprise and discourage your friends.
How to hide on PC?
If you are a PC or laptop user, then I can offer you one rather interesting way to hide VK messages. This is done using a special browser extension – AdBlock.
Many people know this service as a tool for removing annoying advertisements. But few people know that it can also be used to hide messages on VKontakte. How to do it:
- Install the AdBlock extension. To do this, go to your browser's Settings, then open the Add-ons/Extensions section, depending on which browser you are using.
- Enter “Adblock” into the search bar.
- Then install exactly this extension (not analogues).
- After installation, open the page with VK correspondence.
- The AdBlock service icon will appear in the browser interface. Click on it.
- In the menu that appears, select “Block ads on this page.”
- Click on the area with the desired dialogue so that it is all highlighted, as in the screenshot below.
- Once the messages have disappeared, click the "Looks Good" button.
- Confirm the action by clicking the “Block!” button.
To show hidden elements again, you need to follow these steps:
- Open the page with VK messages.
- Click on the Adblock icon in the browser interface.
- Select the menu item “Cancel my blocking on this site.”
Ready! This cunning method will allow you to hide dialogues on VKontakte from those people who also have access to your PC.
There is an article about the invisible program for VK on our website.
