The group is in contact about the facts. Social network Vkontakte - interesting facts. What ensured success

In appearance and in general terms, VKontakte is similar to Facebook. The founder of the social network Pavel Durov explains this similarity by the fact that when creating the design, an open concept of styles was used. But VK is much more convenient. We present interesting facts about VK.

General information

VKontakte is a commercial Russian social network. It was launched in October 2006, but at the very beginning it was assumed that only students and graduates of higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation would use the resource. The author of this site is Pavel Valerievich Durov, formerly the chief general director of VKontakte. The site is now owned by the technology company Mail.ru Group.

Interesting information

The social network has many kind of "secrets" about which users often do not even suspect. Perhaps this is due to the fact that a person began to use the social network very often and stopped noticing them. Next, we will talk about several interesting facts about one of the most popular networks in Russia:

If a registered user has less than 5 friends, then upon entering he goes directly to his page (profile), and not to the news feed.
Although they say that music in VK has become paid, this interpretation is not entirely correct. Her audition was only limited to a certain amount of time. At the same time, a paid subscription was introduced to remove this restriction. This event took place in November 2017.
On November 4, 2019, at about 4 pm, the social network crashed again. It was expressed in problems with sending messages (or rather, with the complete impossibility of sending a message to anyone), with the entrance to the page itself or to the "news" section. There were also problems with viewing your own "bookmarks".
VK has been accused of piracy, copyright infringement due to the illegal distribution of music and the emergence of Internet addiction several times.
You can actually go to jail or get a big fine for likes, reposts, and page posts. For example, it is known about the case when two students in 2009 were convicted of posting “extremist materials” (perhaps they really were extremist).
Currently, the resource has been accurately translated into 74 languages, however, there is information that the social network has been translated into more than 90 languages.
Open registration on the site became available only a year after the launch of the social network.
Roskomnadzor in 2013 added the domain of the social network to the list of banned sites. Perhaps this was done by mistake (the error is the official version), or perhaps due to the appearance of materials that the readers should not have known about.
There is a myth that the Federal Security Service launched VKontakte as a project to spy on the population (perhaps some information is used to spy on the right people, there is nothing strange about it, because the FSB is a special service).
The site is written in the kPHP language, a PHP-to-C ++ translator, which doubles the speed of the service.
According to some users, the site has many more flaws that complicate the use of the page. For example, many people do not like the editor of articles on VKontakte.
Some companies specifically block access to the social network of their employees in order to increase productivity. Some educational institutions also adhere to this method.

What is the most popular social network in Russia and the CIS? Even people far from this topic will say that this is VKontakte! This site will celebrate its 10th anniversary in the fall of 2016. its popularity has grown steadily both among young people and among the older generation. In this article, we will look at the history of formation and many interesting facts about VKontakte.

The most notable events in the history of VKontakte

October 10, 2006 is considered to be the official birthday of VKontakte. Then the site was positioned as a social network for students of individual Russian universities.

This is what VKontakte looked like in 2006

Open registration became available in 2007. Moreover, each user was required to indicate real data and post a real photo. For many Internet users of that time, this was unusual, because the main platform for communication was forums, where anonymity was preferred. However, Durov managed to teach the public to post information about himself.

Even at the beginning of its formation, VK began to receive complaints and even lawsuits for plagiarism and piracy, but this did not interfere with the further development of this social network.

In less than half a year, VKontakte was able to overtake Odnoklassniki in attendance, and by the end of 2007 more than a million users had already registered on it.

At that time yandex.ru and mail.ru were the peculiar "godfathers" in the Runet, which have been earning a name for themselves since the 90s. Their management was probably very upset when VKontakte entered the TOP-5 visited sites in Russia after 2 years.

In 2008, in addition to various useful innovations, it became possible to add interactive applications. At the end of 2008, the social network with 20 million users began to be translated into Ukrainian and acquired a version for mobile devices.

Among the notable events of 2009 was the purchase of the vk.com domain. How much it cost is not known. It is worth noting that they actively began to imprison distributors of child pornography, Internet scammers and other guys who clearly used the social network for no good.

By the way, in the period 2009-2010, the application is gaining popularity on VKontakte "Happy Farmer", which to this day occupies the minds of children and adults. Even Zhirinovsky is delighted with him!

2010 will be remembered for the introduction of the possibility of receiving SMS-messages about new events in VK. Then it became known that a part of the social company belongs to Mail.Ru Group. The users were outraged by the replacement of the usual "wall" with microblogging: the site just exploded from "Durov, return the wall!"... By the end of the year, the number of VKontakte users exceeded 100 million, although a considerable percentage of the pages were fake. In the same year, there was a rapid increase in VK fraud.

This is what the familiar wall looked like.

The end of January 2011 was marked by a high-profile trial against a VKontakte user, who posted several audio recordings on his page. They were downloaded by about 200 thousand people, which caused colossal damage and moral suffering to the copyright holder.

A notable event took place on February 11, 2011, when, in an attempt to combat spammers and the creation of fake pages, the VK management introduced registration by invitation. By the way, not all users could send invitations. Overall, this year security has been improved, privacy settings have been tweaked, Android and iPhone clients have been released, and the ability to use hashtags in posts has appeared.

In 2012, there were no too significant events related to VKontakte. The site developed, the function of video calls appeared, and testing of the targeting system began.

In March 2013, the VKontakte domain was included in the Roskomnadzor list of prohibited sites. But very quickly this trouble was corrected. VK users were very bombarded when a lot of music was removed according to the new anti-piracy law.

One of the saddest years for users was 2014, when they had to Pavel Durov left the post of director, and he also left the country. Why? I would not like to go into politics, but it was connected with the events in Ukraine. No, Pasha did not support any of the parties - he simply protected the data of his users ... Although today they say that he has already returned to the Russian Federation. And Mail.Ru Group, meanwhile, has completely taken over the most popular social network.

2015 was remembered mainly for the constant failures of the site. Many users believed that this was all because Pasha was kicked out.

2016 has become to some extent significant for VKontakte users, because for the first time in many years a large-scale change in the site design was announced. Not everyone took the redesign positively, but the VK management believes that sooner or later they would have come to something like this. The new design has become fully responsive to all kinds of devices.

Today is the daily average the number of VKontakte visitors is about 80 million.

What made it successful?

A friendly and simple interface, the gradual addition of new chips, focus on ease of use - all this largely determined the formation of VKontakte. The advantage of the site for the period of the late 2000s was the availability of a lightweight WAP-version, which was very pleasing to many users with a weak mobile Internet.

It is generally accepted that it was word of mouth that determined the rapid growth in popularity of VKontakte. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of users came there, having learned from their friends and acquaintances about such an interesting new site. But no matter what they say, a competent advertising company also played a role. This is where the money of Mirilashvili's cheats was needed. And a lot was invested, because the VK management could allow rewarding the most active promoters with Apple products.

VKontakte is convenient on all devices

VKontakte today is very attractive in terms of organizing advertising campaigns. A well-developed targeted service will attract the attention of those users who are interested in them to your product or service.

In addition, VKontakte is a clone of the successful Facebook, which was not even particularly hidden. The American social network was licked down to some elements of the source code.

Our site also has a public Vkontakte. You can view it by clicking on the button below.

The most interesting facts about VKontakte

It was with the development of VKontakte in Russia that the problem of the dependence of children and adolescents on social networks began to be discussed.
Around VKontakte and Pavel Durov, there were many suspicions and rumors, up to conspiracy theories. The most popular myth was that VK was a project of the FSB... After all, how convenient it is for these guys when millions of people post their personal information, photos and videos. In addition, until a certain moment it was not clear who sponsored all this office, because the maintenance of such a large resource is quite costly. But rumors died down as soon as the first banner ads appeared on the site.
Pasha was considered an agent of the special services
Nevertheless, it is no secret that social networks are actively used by law enforcement agencies to catch criminals with live bait.
The most popular personal pages in Russia are the pages of the creator of VKontakte Pavel Durov, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, Ivan (EeOneGuy) Rudskiy and Katya Klep.
Some mobile operators provide free access to this social network which is available at 0.vk.com. In this version, you cannot watch photos, videos and listen to music.
Pavel Durov graduated from the Faculty of Philology of St. Petersburg State University with honors.
On the site over 340 million registered users... If VK were a country, it would have ranked 3rd in the world in terms of population. The population of Russia is 146 million.
VKontakte today is wholly owned by the Ru Group (serious guys!).
Pasha Durov, when he was still at the helm, owned only 12% of the shares, the rest belonged to the well-known guys of Ru Group and the Mirilashvili family, who in the first couples unbuckled Pasha to adapt Facebook in Russia.
Do you know how many "likes" are put by VK users per day? Over 1 billion!
VKontakte has its own "online university", which conducts courses for future programmers. Classes are designed for schoolchildren and students.
In Russia, no one has yet managed to gain popularity at the same rate.
Not registered on VK except that Vladimir Vladimirovich, although who knows. Maybe on one of the pages with his name really ... but no, hardly.
Until 2010, VKontakte was attacked by major DDoS attacks. It is believed that such large-scale actions were well sponsored by envious competitors. Strange, but after it turned out that part of VK belongs to the Ru Group, such frequent powerful attacks were not observed. Coincidence?
And this horizontal bar is installed in the VKontakte office.
The choice of the name of the social network was influenced by the then jingle of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" - "In full contact with information."
In the US, our favorite social network is listed as a pirate site. Americans are quite sensitive to copyright, and VK is just a hotbed of "stolen" files.
If you want to view all VKontakte pages, you will need 1000 years.
Different sources provide different data regarding what place VKontakte occupies in the ranking of Russian sites today. But they are definitely the top three.

Conclusion

The social network VKontakte has definitely changed the lives of ordinary Russians. Someone will say that for the best, others say that for the worst. However, it should be remembered that VKontakte is just a tool, and we ourselves decide how to use it, and it cannot influence us in any way!

Good day to all, my dear friends. To be honest, this work week has been quite tough. There was a whole bunch of work. Therefore, today, on this wonderful day off, I just wanted to relax a little. Therefore, I have prepared a corresponding article for you.

In one of the previous articles, I told the most interesting ones, and this time I want to touch upon another popular social network. Well, from the name you already understood what kind of network it is). In general, relax and read the most interesting facts about VKontakte in my personal opinion.

According to the initial idea, this popular social network was conceived as just an appendix to the SPbU forum. And it was planned that it would unite all students and graduates of this educational institution. But as you can see, the network has gone far beyond the university forum and the number of registered users is in the tens of millions.
Many have noticed that the main color of a contact, like Facebook, is blue. I do not know what was guided by Pavel Durov, but Mark Zuckerberg is color blind, and the blue color (with all shades) is the only one that he distinguishes perfectly.
I do not know if this is a coincidence or just a superstition of Pasha Durov, but users with id13 and id666 not registered in the contact. Facebook didn’t seem to have seen anything like that).
Today Vkontakte is the most visited website on the Russian Internet. But the truth is there is one BUT. If you exclude all Yandex services (mail, market, maps, cars, news, pictures, search, etc.), then of course Yandex takes the first place.
Despite the fact that this social network has the simplest address, a huge number of users still search for this site using search engines.
Due to the great similarity and the main idea, the United States officially announced that VKontakte was a pirate site, and Pavel Durov was accused of plagiarism.
One of the main reasons why the site is named "Vkontakte" is the phrase "Be in full contact with information", which Durov heard on the radio "Echo of Moscow". Pavel rethought this phrase and then it came to mind to call his social network that way.
In 2014, Pavel Durov resigns from the post of CEO, resigns completely from his brainchild and sells all his shares. Now he is the creator of the popular Telegram messenger, which, by the way, has not even been translated into Russian. But he does not leave his page unattended and is periodically published.
In the fall of 2014, Mail.ru Group buys out the remaining stake in VKontakte and thus becomes the sole owner of this network.
By the way, about Mail.Ru group. This company owns not only the contact, but also the Odnoklassniki website, and this is not counting the mail.ru itself. That is, in fact, all the most popular domestic social services. the networks are owned by the same company. What a twist.
In fact, Mail.ru Group has long wanted to have 100% of the contact's shares, but earlier Durov rejected all these offers and even posted his photo with an extended middle finger on Instagram, signing the photo like this: "The official response to the trash Mail.Ru holding on its next attempts to absorb Vkontakte"... But as you now know, this holding still managed to become a full-fledged owner.

Well, that's basically all that I wanted to tell you about the most famous social network in Russia. I hope you were able to relax and enjoy today's facts. But if you have something to add, then do not hesitate to write.

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Best regards, Dmitry Kostin.

The life of a modern person outside of social networks is difficult to imagine. All the most famous and popular personalities must have their own page on Twitter, Facebook, VKontakte or Odnoklassniki. If someone you know says that he does not use social networks, do not believe him! Even if visits to these sites are rare, they are still there! One cannot hide from this web despite the myths and "horror stories" with which users are scared by the media, competing websites, etc. What is true and what is fiction? Let's figure it out together.

The creator of VKontakte is Pavel Durov. Moreover, at first the site was not at all a social network, gradually transforming into it. At first, the site was a closed supplement to the forum of St. Petersburg State University. And Pavel didn't have to come up with a name for a long time. He was simply a fan of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, on the waves of which the slogan “In full contact with information” was often sounded. So, with the light hand of DJs, the name of the future popular social network appeared.

Is it a coincidence or a superstition of Pavel Durov, but there are no VKontakte pages with IDs 13 and 666.

Although the site address is easy to remember, it is often searched for in search engines.

In the US, VKontakte is considered a pirate site. The reason for this is the frequent infringement of intellectual property rights.

Oddly enough, But "contact" was promoted without advertising on third-party resources, it's amazing, isn't it? In fact, everything is pretty simple. Blog creators are not stupid people, they know their stuff. Their main task was to attract about a hundred thousand people, and we did the rest ourselves. Information about a site that allows the entire Internet to learn about your interests and hobbies quickly bypassed Russia and neighboring countries, and now - we have the most famous social network among young people and now all VKontakte secrets are available to a wide audience of the Internet.

The number of people registered in this social network is 76,000,000. If you have not registered in this network, go for it. And here is how to correctly register on Vkontakte from a special source. Every day, about 1,000,000 people, and they view about 26,000,000 pages. Impressive, isn't it? At the moment, only Mail.ru and Yandex.ru can compare with its popularity. but also do not forget that contact is being improved and improved, and its creators are doing everything in their power to make Vkotakte the most visited website on the Russian Internet.

You will not be able to send a private message containing the digit "0". You will get an error.

Users noticed that Odnoklassniki and VKontakte are not the best friends. What to do competition is competition. So, in messages to Odnoklassniki.ru, you cannot send a link that contains the word "vkontakte". The text is automatically changed to another - "vkonyakte". But if this is true or just another myth, check it out for yourself. Suddenly you will be able to get to the bottom of the truth and confirm or deny another rumor about the popular social network.