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German Klimenko laughed at the ridiculous spam attack on users of the popular Russian social network

March 6, 2017 could have been a day of mourning for users of the popular Russian social network VKontakte (since the end of February, a message has been circulating on the resource about its imminent blocking), but the next closure of the site was not destined to happen. Realnoe Vremya decided to look into the situation and collected five facts about the problems of the popular social network.

Why won't March 6 become a "day of mourning"?

Since the end of February, a message about the imminent closure of the resource has been “walking” on the VKontakte social network, and on the eve of publications with the same content, spammers were fasting at a rate of once a minute. In the post test, a specific closing date is indicated - March 6, 2017 - and the person in charge who made the official statement is German Klimenko, who, according to the authors of the message, is the press secretary of VK (in fact, Klimenko holds the position of adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on the Internet).

Herman Klimenko has already commented on the situation to the press, saying that everyone openly laughs at this message, and he is not the press secretary of the social network, which, by the way, will not be closed.

Note that even such a clumsy presentation of the message could cause a small surge of panic and increased attention to the news about the closure of the resource. At the same time, users of the social network were scared that after blocking VK, their personal information would be in public access, and in order to avoid this, they need to copy this message to their wall.

Herman Klimenko has already commented on the situation to the press, saying that everyone openly laughs at this message, and he is not the press secretary of the social network, which, by the way, will not be closed. Photo rosbalt.ru

Accidents in VK data centers and regular failures

Rumors about the upcoming closure of VK were notably fueled by a large-scale failure in the social network that occurred at the beginning of this week and dragged on for several hours. But it is worth noting that VKontakte, like any other resource, is at risk of being unavailable for a number of technical reasons.

In general, in the history of "VK" there are several major failures in the work. One of the most notable occurred on July 25, 2010, when the site remained unavailable for more than four hours due to a power outage in the data center. Another failure took place on July 27, 2014: then, as a result of an accident in one of the data centers, the site was also unavailable to users.

On August 4, 2015, the VKontakte website remained unavailable for more than two hours. According to the press service of the company, the cause of the problem was a physical break in the cable connecting the data centers. It was later reported that the cause of the failure was "a fatal confluence of a number of circumstances." Increasing cases of inaccessibility of VKontakte led to the popularization of the hashtag #vkzhivi on Twitter.

Is Pavel Durov to blame for everything?

In addition to the hashtag, the opinion spread among users that regular failures in work began exactly after Pavel Durov left the company. On April 1, 2014, on his VKontakte page, Durov announced that he was leaving the post of CEO of the company.

In his appeal, the creator of the social network claimed that in 2013 his freedom of action as the CEO of VKontakte was greatly reduced. He complained that the principles underlying the social network had become increasingly difficult to uphold and formal positions in the current conditions were not interesting to him. Experts are sure that in this way Durov hinted at serious pressure from the security forces, demanding the closure of the VK opposition groups, censorship and access to users' personal data.

Durov sold his shares to the well-known media manager and former CEO of MegaFon Ivan Tavrin, and the entire social network was taken over by the Mail.Ru Group.

Among users, the opinion spread that regular failures in work began exactly after Pavel Durov left the company. Photo aif.by

Not the first “closure” in the 10 years of the existence of the social network

The upcoming “closure” of VKontakte will not be the first and certainly not the last in the history of the social network. In 2009, the resource was to be closed by a court decision; in March 2012, Pavel Durov himself allegedly stated that "his offspring will stop working because it has become too difficult to manage the site."

In the open spaces of VK there is even a thematic group called “Maybe it’s true, maybe not ... VKontakte will be closed”, in which panic messages appear every year or six months that the social network will be closed.

Hotbed of fakes

VKontakte is a fairly large hotbed of fake news not only about its closure. As well as through any social network, fictional stories of varying degrees are distributed through VK, which, sometimes without prior verification, end up in the media and are perceived by the population as verified facts.

Similar cases are periodically encountered in the Tatarstan press: just last year, a local publication spread the news that during a fire at one of the industrial facilities of the Republic of Tatarstan, a huge piece of concrete ceiling flew away from the explosion towards the penal colony and, when it fell, demolished the watchtower with a machine gunner, broke through the fence and the restricted area, and the prisoners allegedly fled wherever their eyes looked.

Lina Sarimova

In contact with Around her go about the same rumors. Say it's about to close VKontakte and users will be denied access to its capabilities. To what extent is this true? At the same time, the nature of the rumors itself is somewhat different. Let's try to consider them and understand more specifically, When will VKontakte be closed? .

Copyright infringement

• This is probably the most pressing issue. And not so much for users, but for the creator himself. In contact with, Pavel Durov . The fact is that in the vastness of this resource there is a huge amount audio and video, which users absolutely without any demand place on their page. In addition to this, there are now third party applications, which also allow you to safely download music and movies from user pages.
• It is on the basis of allegations of piracy there has been a debate for a long time whether they will close In contact with or not? After all, more than one trial has already taken place on this basis. site administration with the most famous right holders. BUT …
• In most lawsuits, the question was about damages rather than closing the resource itself. Besides - administration of VKontakte confidently shifts responsibility for such actions onto the shoulders users . And the court most often willingly believes in it. So what about closure social network so far there is no talk. And while it is unlikely that the authorities will close access In contact with ordinary users precisely because copyright infringement . Although in the future such a development of events is possible.

Users of the social network VKontakte, who are very concerned about the privacy of their personal page, often wonder how to hide their profile from the eyes of strangers. For the most part, those who ask such questions do not know that the administration of the VK.com website has taken good care of its users, providing everything necessary to hide the page, as part of the standard functionality.

Hide the page VKontakte

First of all, it is worth noting that today there is only one way to close your own VKontakte profile from outsiders. At the same time, this list can include both people who came from various search engines, and owners of accounts in this social network.

Please note that hiding a personal VK.com profile occurs at the expense of basic functionality. That is, there is no need to use any third-party resources, applications, and so on.

There is no way to hide personal information using third party software. Be carefull!

Here are the main privacy settings for your VKontakte account. By changing this particular data, you can close your profile.

If you want to restrict access to personal information for all users, including friends, then you may be interested in ways to delete and freeze an account.

Upon completion of the above steps, you can check the reliability of the set privacy level. To do this, you will also need the standard functionality of VK.com.

If such privacy settings completely satisfy you, you can switch to the standard VK interface using the button "Back to Settings" or by clicking on any other section of the main menu and confirming the transition.

Since this method of hiding a personal VK profile is part of the standard functionality, you don’t have to worry about possible errors in the future. Practice, on the example of many thousands of satisfied users, shows that the method is flawless.

We wish you good luck in achieving the desired results!