Starting today, users of the social network VKontakte have the opportunity to close their profiles to friends. The new features are designed to provide more flexibility to protect the personal space of users who do not want to share their posts and photos outside a narrow circle of close people.
Now VKontakte also does not display a list of people who have reposted posts. This information is available only to the author of the publication; other users see the total number of reposts.
A closed profile displays a minimum of information: first and last name, preview of the main photo (avatar), list of mutual friends. At the user's request, status, city, age and place of work can be displayed. The content and other information on the page are automatically closed by privacy settings, including the following sections: Wall, Photo, Video, Music, Subscriptions, Communities, Stories, Gifts, Marital status, Relatives, Contact information, Education, Career, Life position, Personal information.
Andrey Rogozov, Managing Director of VKontakte:
“Recently, we have received many questions about how VKontakte works with users’ personal data. We want to make this process as transparent as possible and are currently preparing a detailed information section on this topic. It will include principles for working with data: what information we store on servers, for how long, what it can be used for and in what cases it can be transferred somewhere, as well as information about the policy for processing requests from government agencies.
Despite the fact that the root of the problem lies in imperfect legislation and law enforcement practice, we will continue to do everything in our power and systematically improve VKontakte, giving users more flexibility in working with their data. Very soon we will launch the ability to quickly archive or completely delete your old posts and photos. For many, this can be a convenient opportunity to hide irrelevant information from their page.”
The global privacy reform on VKontakte is associated with increased criminal cases for reposting publications. Users are increasingly becoming involved in cases where law enforcement agencies do not take into account the context, do not distinguish a publication from a repost, and an image with a dubious joke is equated to truly dangerous criminal offenses as extremist activity.
Earlier, Mail.Ru Group, the owner of VKontakte, asked the State Duma for a bill on amnesty for those convicted for liking and reposting.
Greetings, friends!
We continue to understand the VKontakte interface. Today you will learn how to repost on VK, its types, how it is useful and what subtleties there are.
Why it’s worth looking into - this tool is effective both for personal use on social networks and for running business pages. There are rules by which copy-paste legalized by the site is carried out.
Let us briefly outline for a clear understanding what a repost is. This is a function that allows you to save the selected post to your wall, send it to the community or send it as a private message. The post you share in this way will include the original source.
Next, let's figure out what the word itself means, which came to us from another language. To the word “post,” as VKontakte publications are called, the English prefix “re” is added, which means “reproduction”, “repeat”. That is, information is repeated, roughly speaking, copy-paste.
This allows you to instantly share and save information, whereas regular copying takes much longer. For example, when you need to save a beautiful selection of photos or music, useful educational materials or videos. To reproduce the material in the same form, you will need to separately upload pictures and add compositions, documents, videos.
We make it easier - with one click we duplicate the desired publication and save it.
How to repost a post?
Pages on the wall
To repost to a page, highlight the first item – “Friends and subscribers”. The information will be saved on the wall of your personal page and displayed in the feed of friends and subscribers.
To the group/community
To copy-paste to a group, select the second item – “Community Subscribers”. A list will open where you can duplicate the selected post. After that, you can pin it in the header, like a regular publication.
Repost on behalf of the group
For this type of repost, you must have administrator rights. Important note: you can only repost on behalf of the group. You cannot have your name mentioned in a publication.
If this nuance is important, then make an appropriate comment on the entry.
By personal message
By sending a post as a private message, you will send it directly into a conversation with the selected person. If you select several people, a separate conversation will be created with all participants.
With comment
The functionality of VKontakte allows you to repost with text - add a comment or postscript on your behalf. Pay attention to the special field after the options menu.
You can add a photo, audio, or document along with your comment. However, you can only attach one file.
Delayed repost
In the menu that opens, select the publication date and time.
Using your phone
The steps on how to repost from your phone are the same as on the website. If you open the browser in the mobile version, the algorithm is the same.
Click on the arrow icon under the post and select from the menu where to send the information. A field for commenting and attaching files appears. When everything is ready, click “Submit” - the publication is ready.
What does a repost look like?
What is reposting a post and how to do it? A repost looks like information forwarded from another source. Each group and VKontakte page has entries - so-called posts. The posts contain the basic information that we are interested in on this social network. You can attach the following elements to posts:
- text;
- image in jpeg and gif formats;
- videos from YouTube hosting or from the built-in video player;
- links to any pages on the Internet;
- surveys;
- music;
- graffiti;
- point on the map;
- product;
- note;
- document.
All these elements can be contained in a post. Through posts we receive a lot of information and very often we want to share this information. This is exactly what reposts are used for. We can easily send information to a person or group of people without losing the structure and source of the content. After reposting, it completely retains the appearance of the post, only the source of this post is attached at the top. The source can include both a VK group and a person’s page. It looks like this:
FAQ
Why can’t I repost from a VKontakte group?
There are two possible reasons.
How can I see who reposted?
Hover your cursor over the arrow and wait a couple of seconds. A window will appear with short data about the number of reposts and a list of people. To expand all the information, you need to click on the inscription “Shared by ... person.” Moreover, if your friends shared the post, you will see their names first in the short preview list.
How many reposts can you make per day?
How can I see who shared a post?
Anyone can make a repost on the wall in VK, from this you can understand that there is a list of users who shared this post. To see who reposted on VK, just hover over the repost icon and wait a couple of seconds.
After this, a window will appear in which all the people who reposted will be listed. Only their avatars will be indicated; to display the full information, click on the text “Shared by [number of shared] people.” A window will pop up, and it will be in it that the pages with the repost of this post will be listed. This list also displays all VK groups that sent a post to their wall. The list contains a link to the source of the repost, an avatar, the first and last name of the person who reposted, or the name of the VK group.
In addition, under the ava and nickname there is a user comment regarding this post. Please note that this list of reposts includes only people who reposted on their wall or in a public VK group. That is, if someone reposts it to someone in private messages, a conversation, or a closed VKontakte group, this will not appear in the list of reposted people. Moreover, this will not be counted in the number of all reposts; only public reposts made for many people on the wall are counted there.
How did the repost from the page go?
After you have made a repost on the wall in VK, but then changed your mind about doing it, or the information in it is outdated, it is better to delete it. Unfortunately. You can delete a repost only on the wall; it will always remain in private messages. Even if you click the “delete” button after selecting a repost, only you will lose the message, while the other person will still have it saved. In a contact on the wall, you can delete a repost like any other post by clicking the cross next to the name of the post.
We open the wall of our page and scroll down, look for a post on the wall, then move the mouse cursor over the upper right corner of the post, a cross will appear there. Click on it and the post will be deleted. The exact same technology works with groups. To delete a repost on mobile phones, you need to find the post, click on the three dots next to the name, then select “Delete”.
What is a repost?
This term refers to posting someone else's post on your page. Most often, this is a message sent by a friend or posted in a group the user is a member of.
Thus, a repost is a copy of the entire post, but without the comments related to it.
Using this action, you can replicate interesting and relevant messages from another page, increasing their popularity among friends, acquaintances and community members.
The more reposts, the more popular the information.
And the object of copying your profile or group can be almost any content - from a photograph to a musical composition. It is also acceptable to repost a video or link.
It is worth noting that a repost on VKontakte is immediately noticeable - by the name of the page from which the information was copied.
Thus, the message has two authors indicated at once - the one who reposted it, and the person or group who posted it earlier.
If there is multiple repost, the second title indicates the original source.
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Restrictions
How many reposts do you think you can make per day on VKontakte? Please pay attention to the limits established by the rules of the social network:
- You cannot make more than 50 entries per day on the community wall;
- On the personal profile board – no more than 150;
- The interval between reposts is from 30 seconds;
It is estimated that the indicated quantities are optimal for maintaining activity without clogging the feed and overloading information.
Do you know how you can determine the winner based on reposts? If not, be sure to read our article on this topic!
The instructions above apply to any note type. They are also relevant for those who want to know how to repost a video on VK and how to repost a photo. Mutual reposts on VKontakte are a kind of etiquette, an unspoken language of communication among users. The more copies of your post, the higher the popularity of the page. The function is useful and very popular. Use it for your health!
Before I tell you how to repost on VKontakte, I would like to explain what it actually is. Repost is a duplicate, repeated publication limited to one single website. The phrase “repost” usually means transferring a post to your VK page or to the wall of a VK community.
Using a voluntary repost:
— photography; — audio recording; — message in the group; — video; — news from the articles section; — news from the message feed; - all other types of combined elements that are available to VK.
Moreover, making a repost on VKontakte is not at all difficult, and the site kindly shares information with its readers about how this is done. Since there is no point in publishing clear step-by-step instructions on how to repost on VKontakte (due to its elementary and simplicity), we decided to focus the reader’s attention on the fundamental points related to some important elements.
Note: after the repost is made, the information appears on the wall of the user or the selected community, where your friends and comrades can already see it. In essence, reposting means transferring information to your own profile wall.
How to repost on VKontakte: news
1. To repost news, you need to go to the news section of the site (“News” in the menu on the left).
2. Among the news, find the desired entry and hover the mouse cursor over it.
5. All that remains is to go to your main page and check that the repost was a success. The entry should be displayed as the last message on your profile wall.
How to repost on VKontakte: photo
3. We carry out all the same operations as described in paragraphs 4. and 5. of the instructions described above.
How to repost on VKontakte: post on the group wall
How to repost on VKontakte: audio recording
Actually, this topic can be closed at this point. In this step-by-step instructions, we looked at several options for how you can repost posts in a group, news and photos, which is quite enough to successfully share interesting materials on your own profile wall. The information that you repost additionally appears in the news feed of your friends, so that is where it will be noticed by a wide audience.
Types of reposts in VK
There are several repost options that can be done on VKontakte:
- From one profile page to your own;
- From the community to the wall of a social network user;
- From profile to page in group;
- From one community to another;
- Repost as a personal message to the user.
All rules for copying and distributing information are the same both on a computer and when logging into a social network from a phone or tablet.
When working in a browser or mobile application, the icons are no different. Except that on a smartphone it will be more difficult to press them.
What is repost, and why do users need this option?
Repost is the placement of someone else's publication (or part of it) on your page. If your photos and video materials are interesting and relevant, then many users will duplicate your publication on their pages on Insta and other social networks. networks (of course, with a link to the original source) in order to familiarize their subscribers with its content. Read the relevant material about the possibility of reposting on Instagram from a PC.
In addition, repost the publication:
- is a frequent condition for participation in promotions or competitions;
- will be mandatory for another blogger’s PR;
- a good way to attract new subscribers;
Unfortunately, there is another reason for reposts - theft and commercial use of content. But we're not like that, are we? We post other people's publications only with a link to the original source.
There are two options for reposting an interesting publication on Insta, namely:
- take a screenshot and post it on your feed;
- use the capabilities of third-party applications.
About third-party applications, read: “TOP 5 applications for reposting on Instagram and several alternative methods.”
With the first method everything is clear:
- We find the desired photo.
- Let's take a screenshot.
- Open Instagram.
- Go to the publications section and select a gallery.
- Edit and publish the image.
The second method is also not particularly complicated: you need to download an application for reposting on Instagram, of which there are a huge number in content stores for devices on Android, IOS and Windows Phone.
The most popular today are:
- Repost for Instagram.
- Insta Repost for Instagram.
- Regran.
Based on the above, we can conclude that reposting is one of the most important indicators of the quality and relevance of your content.
We also suggest reading the material about reposting videos on Instagram.
Repost rules
The simplest type of repost is to copy a message to your profile wall, regardless of where the original post is located - in the community or with another person.
To do this, follow these steps:
- Find a suitable interesting post, information from which you would like to see on your page;
- Click the heart-shaped image below the message;
- On the menu that appears with profile images of users who also liked the information, select “Tell friends.”
Now a message from another page has appeared on your wall, which all subscribers can see.
And, if your profile is set to allow all friends to see your updates, they will be able to see this post the next time they log into their profile.
To do this, you should use an icon not in the shape of a heart, but one depicting a small megaphone.
How else are reposts used?
Often on VK you can find catchy headlines like “We give away phones for reposting.” They use this to increase the total number of users and stir up interest in a group or a specific page.
Can you believe this? It all depends on which group is holding the prize draw. If she has managed to prove herself only on the positive side, then the chances of receiving a prize are actually high. But draws where a car or an apartment is at stake often cause serious misunderstanding, because no one in their right mind would just give away equipment, much less real estate.
The situation is completely different with the giveaway of food, covers or T-shirts. You can actually get something like this for free, because users, with their reposts, thereby promote a brand, group, etc.
Ultimately, only you can decide whether to repost or not, because there is really a lot of interesting information, but all of it definitely won’t fit on one page.
Repost with a choice of recipients
Advice!
You can make sure that your friends will receive a repost from your page and see it in their news feed by clicking on the “megaphone”. After this, a menu will appear for selecting a recipient.
Here you can specify who the message is intended for:
- Friends and subscribers.
In this case, the repost will only go to the wall. This method is additional for copying an entry to your profile; - Community subscribers.
This option is available only to users who are also administrators of a VKontakte group.
If there are several communities, in the field below you should enter the name of the one whose subscribers the information is intended for.
- To a specific person.
Here you can select not only your friends (names are filtered by the first letters, so you don’t have to type them all), but also just VKontakte users whose mailing address you know.
If you select multiple users, a conversation will automatically be created between the people to whom the message was sent.
You can attach a comment, a photo from your phone, a document, or even an audio or video file from your album to the post you repost.
If you select the “Timer” item here, the data will be sent to the recipients not now, but at the specified time.
This can be useful, for example, to remind you of an event.
The “Export” tab allows you to obtain a code that can be used to insert into a message not posted on VKontakte.
Almost all major social networks are gradually being integrated with each other. VKontakte and Instagram were no exception. You can publish photos or videos on Instagram, and then automatically send them to your VK wall. At the same time, you save time and effort on uploading material to each of the social networks. The service does not always work smoothly, and some users do not know all the intricacies of setting up automatic publication.
In this article we will figure out why photos from Instagram are not published on VKontakte and how to fix this problem.
Some terminology
In order to teach a person something, you need to have information and the desire of the learner. If I am completely sure about the first, then I have doubts about the second. Do you want to learn how to repost? If the answer is no, then you can safely close this resource, I don’t want to take up your precious time. But for those who want to study, I have prepared a surprise. Which? You will understand as you read the review.
What does the term in question mean? The words repost and repost are synonyms that mean copying a post you like from the page of a friend, a complete stranger, or a community and posting it on your wall or sending it to a colleague as a personal message.
This procedure allows you to save time, because you no longer have to rewrite quotes, download pictures or videos, because just a couple of clicks is enough for interesting information to be reflected on the wall of your account and friends and colleagues can see it.
Which method will you choose? Naturally, the second one, because it takes very little time and effort. And most importantly, the entry is posted on your page without any changes. Let's understand this procedure, because it is sometimes confused with the “Like” function.
Setting up Instagram settings
We figured out why Instagram doesn’t publish photos on VK. First, let's set the correct settings in the VK client from a mobile device through the application. It can be downloaded for free from the Play Market or App Store, depending on the platform of your phone or tablet.
After downloading and installing, follow all the steps from the presented algorithm:
Photos are still not imported from Instagram to VKontakte? Everything is correct - we just need to make the settings in VK from the computer. Let's look at this procedure.
Settings on a social network site
To enable the necessary settings on VKontakte, follow these steps:
If Instagram does not post photos and they are not duplicated in VK, then try reinstalling the application on your smartphone or tablet.
We figured out why Instagram doesn’t share photos posted from VK and how to fix this problem.
With our instructions you can do this easily.
Simple instructions on how to repost in contact, even when it doesn’t work out. Reposts on VK can be done from your phone or computer. They are needed to share information with your friends and subscribers in the group. Post notes on the wall.
Some write “I can’t repost.” At the end of the article, we will analyze cases why VKontakte reposts do not work.
You can also try. Anyone can receive real money for simple actions on social networks. And so let's go, let's start figuring it out and reposting whatever your heart desires on VK)).
What is Repost?
This is the re-publication of a message (photo, video, recording) posted by another user on a social network or blog, with a link to the source.
However, its content does not change. Some people also say “ repost
”.
Additional options
In order to slightly diversify the display of posts or customize their publication, you can use additional options.
Photo, video, music
- When duplicating, you can add accompanying text to any entry. To do this, after clicking the arrow in the special field, enter your comment.
- This line is also available in the mobile version.
- In addition, in the browser version you can add a photo, video or music track to a note. Just click on the corresponding icon in the lower right corner before clicking “Share post”. And select the desired file.
- If necessary, you can even attach a document. To do this, hover over the word “More” and click on “Document”.
- Additionally, you can configure alerts and comments by clicking on the gear. The same settings are available in the mobile version.
Delayed repost
There is another interesting option. Do you know how to repost on VK from a group on your wall so that the post appears not immediately, but at the right time? For this, there is a timer function that allows you to set the date and time the post appears on your page.
To use it:
- Hover over the word “More” in the computer version and click on “Timer”;
- If you use a smartphone, click on the gear and move the slider next to “Delayed recording”.
How to repost in VKontakte from a computer
To repost the desired post, no matter what it is video, music or just funny pictures, you need:
FIRST METHOD
- Open the desired VKontakte entry and under it pay attention to the small arrow
. Next to it is a transparent heart. Did you see? We click on it.
2. After clicking on this arrow, a new window appears in front of us, in which we simply need to select the desired item. You can also add a comment.
3. Now we have three options.
At the top you also see an Export button. By clicking on it you can repost from VKontakte to Twitter or Facebook
. If you wish, you can attach a photo, video or audio file (some kind of song) to the repost. Hover your mouse over the word More. You will be able to specify the publication time of the post by clicking on the Timer item.
SECOND METHOD - REPOST THE GROUP
In a regular group there will be a button “Invite friends”. If you are the administrator of such a group and also want a “Tell Friends” button, you just need to transfer the group to a public page. I wrote how to do this in an article about .
How to post a link to a post in a group
Via PC
- Click on the button in the form of an arrow under the entry.
- Click on the “” button.
Via smartphone
- Click on the button in the form of a megaphone under the entry.
- In the menu that appears, select "".
Here's how to quickly post to a group.
In the window that opens, click on the address bar and copy the link.
How to repost on VK from a phone (application)
Now almost everyone uses VK from a mobile phone (me included). This can be either a browser or a VKontakte application. Reposting from your smartphone is as easy as from your computer. An arrow also appeared in the mobile version of the site, just like on a computer. It is also in the application.
THIRD METHOD
1. So, to repost in contact from a mobile phone (via a browser), you need to click on this little arrow
. It is located immediately below the entry.
To attach something or set a timer, click on the paperclip
. It's in the upper right corner.
Our repost is ready! Go to your page or group and see what happened.
Here we will consider the option of reposting through the application in VK
. I myself use the VKontakte application. By the way, it’s very convenient to correspond. When a message arrives, the phone vibrates))).
1. Repost through the application
not difficult. As always, click on the arrow below.
2. A new window will appear at the bottom. In it you need to choose where to repost. The list of friends is immediately displayed. You can send it by personal message.
Below are the same options.
- on your page;
- on the community page;
- copy link.
FOURTH METHOD
Every normal website has social buttons. networks that the project owner places for a reason. He wants people to share his articles and spread it online. Wants to be useful. But how can you use these buttons and repost this particular information on your wall? It's simple.
- At the end of all articles there are social buttons, like mine, for example. To repost you simply click on one of these buttons. For example, in VK.
3. Click on the “Send”
and that’s it, a link to the article, a picture and a brief description will appear on your wall. And the author of the article will be very grateful to you!
Now you know all the possible options and methods for reposting (you can also). Make them, share useful and interesting information with your friends. And remember, this simple activity can also generate income.
Did you see a cool post on a friend's wall? He constantly shares all sorts of interesting pictures or funny videos. Do you want that too? Yes, no problem, you can also post this post on your page, you just need to repost it.
Now this picture will show off on you and all your friends will see it. Or, on the contrary, you want to throw something interesting on your wall from the group you are a member of. To do this, you just need to make a couple of mouse clicks.
Why you can’t repost VKontakte from a group: reasons
Sometimes you want to save a video or note you like on your wall or simply send it to friends. However, sometimes this doesn't work out. Let's figure out why you can't repost from a VKontakte group to your wall.
There are only 2 reasons for this problem:
- The liked post was posted on behalf of the user;
- Closed community.
Let's consider each of these cases.
Repost from the group
When you want to send a post from an open community to your VK wall:
- Click the "share" icon;
- Then in the window, select the first option “Friends and subscribers”.
- The post is published on your wall with a note about where it was taken from.
However, there is one caveat: you can only share news that is posted on behalf of the group. If it was published by a user, then it can only be shared with friends in private messages.
This happens because in communities it is prohibited to repost messages made by users and subscribers of the group.
Such prohibitions are related to the display of information when reposting. When you add materials to your wall, the name of the society from which it was taken is also published, thereby securing copyright for the note.
Repost from a closed community
To read information posted in such a group, you must be a member. To do this, submit an application to join, and the moderator or administrator, after considering your candidacy, will decide to accept or refuse. Accordingly, it is also impossible to repost from such a page.
All information is available only to subscribers. It is impossible to send such materials even to your friends in private messages.
If you want to post a post on your VK wall, but you cannot repost, proceed as follows:
- Save the text;
- Right-click on the photo and select “Copy image URL”;
- Paste the link into a new post, and the picture you like will soon appear.
- Publish it and remove the link.
The method will be useful when you need to quickly save an image to your wall or to a group in VK.
If you are a public administrator, please note that when posting a new note, you can choose the publication method. On your own behalf or on behalf of the community.
If you post a post on your own, your visitors will not be able to share materials from the community.
VKontakte prohibits reposting from groups where the author of the post is the user, and not the community itself. You cannot share news from closed groups or materials that are only available to members.
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