Many of us are interested in what gifts on the VKontakte website actually are. We are trying to clarify things for everyone who is still unfamiliar with the wide capabilities of the most popular social network in Russia. This is a special service that allows all users to give each other special gifts, which, as we know, are images.
They are placed in a special place on the user page.
To enable the service, the user does not have to do anything at all. If any of your friends or other VKontakte users gives something, the gift will have to appear on the page in a special section. For a certain period of time, the gift will be displayed on the left side of the user's page. To give something to another user, you need to have validated votes.
With the help of gifts, users will be able to congratulate their friends, or other VKontakte members, not necessarily on an official holiday, but also on a certain event, even just good mood and breadth of soul.
The gift will always exist. It is located on the page on the social network until the user himself decides to get rid of it.
It should also be noted that some gifts, which include, for example, diamonds, allow you to increase the rating of the user who sent them.
Once a gift has been sent, there is no way to get rid of it. Only the user who received this gift can decide its fate. If you want to congratulate a specific person, but at the same time you do not want his friends to see the text and the sender of the gift, then when sending the gift you will need to configure certain privacy settings.
If you received a gift from an anonymous person, then you can only guess who the mysterious stranger is. In accordance with the rules of the social network VKontakte, it is known that users can use anonymous gifts. In such a case, the sender denies access to all information about himself.
On the page in the gifts section there is a section for setting privacy parameters. That is, the user will be able to block access to the display of gifts. In this case, the block with gifts will not disappear; it’s just that certain details, for example, the sender or the attached text, will not be displayed to other users.
When the recipient of a gift deletes it from his personal page, it will be impossible to return the gift back. A large number of Russian social network users want to gain access to detailed information about the privacy of a gift sent to them (personal or public).
It is known that using official methods this opportunity cannot be implemented on the VKontakte website. However, there is a simple secret: the user will need to visit the site from his friend’s page and go to his personal page. This way, you will be able to see that the gift is public or that the sender specifically decided to make it visible only to the recipient. Unfortunately, it is impossible to return a given gift. If the user does not validate the votes, the “Send Gift” button will not be displayed at all.
You can only send to three friends.
On April 17, Pavel Durov summed up the results of the first day of Telegram blocking in Russia, saying that the Russian market is important for the company “for personal reasons,” and not because of the volume of users. He also announced the launch of “Digital Resistance,” under which Durov will donate millions of dollars of his personal funds to proxy and VPN administrators. VKontakte management supported the launch of Digital Resistance and issued a free gift with its logo.
Since April 17, 2018, each VKontakte user has the opportunity to send three friends a free gift with the logo of Pavel Durov’s Digital Resistance. The social network VKontakte drew up this gift and launched it on the very first day of the announcement of the movement.
Active blocking of Telegram in Russia began on Monday, April 16. Telecom operators began to block access to both the messenger itself and the resources it uses, for example, the service for publishing Telegraph articles. Afterwards, Roskomnadzor added Google and Amazon to the register of prohibited companies, which are used by Telegram to bypass the block.
Today you and I will learn to give each other something on the VKontakte social network. I think there is no need to explain to anyone what a gift is, but what it means on VKontakte is an ordinary picture that is placed in a special “Gifts” section on the page of the person to whom it was sent.
There is no need to equate such surprises with real ones and there is no need to replace them either. Otherwise, we’ll get to the point where, instead of going to cinemas, we’ll start throwing films on each other’s walls and that’s it)))
Usually gifts are paid, that is, in order to send someone something on VK you must give a certain number of votes (a kind of social network currency). This has always amazed me, giving virtual ones instead of real ones and still paying money for it)))
Come on, dear friends, let's move on to practice.
How to give a gift in the full version
This is done very simply. You need to go to the page of the person you want to send a gift to and click on the button under the avatar (next to “Write a message”).
Now we have a window opening with a huge number of gifts that we can give. Right next to them it is written how many votes they are worth. Click on the one you want:
A window opens with detailed description"surprise".
- Do you see how much it costs and how much at the moment you have votes.
- See who the recipient is. You can add a few more or remove them.
- You can insert a message that will be displayed along with the gift.
- You can hide your name and the text you send together from everyone except the recipient. To do this, you need to place a bird near the corresponding point.
After filling out all the fields, feel free to click on the “Submit” button.
That's basically all, after payment all this will be sent to the recipient.
How to send a free gift
They are absolutely free only on holidays. Then several of the same theme for a particular holiday are selected and you can send them absolutely free to some of your friends.
For example, these could be given for free for the New Year.
If you are offered to download some software that will help you give free gifts, then know that this is a scam. There is a high probability that after installing such a program, your VK page will be hacked.
I also came across articles on the Internet on various sites that suggest simply sending pictures to friends and this will be considered as free gifts. No, friends, pictures are pictures.
If you send a picture to a friend, it will not appear in his gifts section. And so, of course, you could open any paid one, save it in the browser as a picture and send it to a friend. But this will be a little different.
Gift anonymously
It will not be possible to send completely anonymously. All the same, the recipient will know who it is from. You can only hide your name for all other users of the social network, who will view the gifts of the person to whom the surprise was actually sent.
I have already shown you how this is done in this article. You just need to check the box on the sending page next to the item “Show the text and my name only to the recipient.”
A gift to myself
Personally, I couldn’t do this and it’s hardly possible. If you find a working way, please share it. I doubt that he exists, of course, but still.
Send from your phone
If you use the VK mobile application for smartphones and tablets, now I will show you how gifts are sent there.
We go to the page of the person we want to surprise, and in the upper right corner click on the box icon with a bow. See screenshot:
We choose what we want to send. In my case there are 5 free gifts. I click on them:
After all the settings are made, you can click on the “Send a gift” button:
That's it, dear friends, we have sorted out all the basic questions about gifts on the VKontakte social network. If you have any left, then ask them in the comments.
When it's your friend's birthday, you probably want to not only congratulate him, but also give him a gift. But what if your friend is many kilometers away? In this case, virtual gifts in VK will help out. Today we will tell you how to give a gift to another user.
We go to the user’s page and click “Send a gift”.
In front of you you will see huge list gifts for every taste.
You have chosen one of them. Let's say it costs 21 rubles. You have these funds on your balance. A window will open in front of you where you will see the selected gift, its cost and recipient. You can add a recipient, but then the cost of the gift will double. You can also write a message if you wish. Just below, you can check the box next to “Show the text and my name only to the recipient,” so that the recipient will know in any case who sent him the gift. Then click the "Submit" button.
The user will receive a gift, which he will learn about from the corresponding message. The gift itself will be seen only by those users selected by the recipient in the privacy settings.
If you do not have enough funds on your balance to pay for the gift, after clicking on the “Send” button you will see a message with your account balance and you will be asked to pay the difference in cost via SMS message.
By clicking on the “Change” button, you can choose a different payment method for the gift.
How to send a free gift to VKontakte?
There are no free gifts in VK. Or rather, there is, but only on holidays. For example, on May 9, the social network VK allows you to send free St. George's ribbon friends.
There were free gifts and New Year— the user could send a wonderful Christmas tree.
By the way, you can follow the updates of the “Gifts” section in the official VKontakte community of the same name (vk.com/vkgifts).
How to send a gift to yourself in VK?
There is a legend on the RuNet that says you can send a gift to yourself on VK. Perhaps this was once true, but today, when entering the recipient of a gift, the sender's name is not displayed, which means you cannot send a gift to yourself.
There is, however, one simple way out of this situation. All you need is to create another page, possibly a fake one. And from there you can send gifts to your main page in the way that we described in this article.
If you have any questions, please ask for help.
On the VKontakte social network, among many different functions, there is a rather important opportunity to give gifts, which will subsequently be displayed on the user’s page in a special block. Despite the fact that most of all existing features are paid, and the main payment is the internal currency - votes, there are still several free elements available to every VK.com user.
Before moving on detailed analysis free opportunities for donating VK, it is worth clarifying that not all of the following aspects are official. That is, some free postcards are not the development of the VK administration and will not be displayed in a special block of the social network site.
Today there are only two ways to give free greeting pictures:
- official;
- unofficial.
We will consider both options in detail below, however, keep in mind that despite the general attitude towards the functionality of gifts, you, as a user, get a completely different result, which sometimes does not quite meet expectations. Moreover, it is recommended to use standard VK functions to avoid all possible child problems.
Site features
The most relevant is the basic feature of the site, thanks to which you can give a gift to absolutely any VK user, subject to blacklist restrictions and other similar blocking, by paying a certain amount of money. However, for the purposes of this review, we are only interested in free features.
The administration of the VKontakte site, under some circumstances, provides its users with the opportunity to give special pictures for next to nothing. Usually, this phenomenon has a direct relationship with some important events, in the opinion of the administration, for example, due to holidays.
Opportunities are relevant only in cases where VK.com celebrates an important event. Otherwise, the once available opportunity to give free gifts is blocked due to the irrelevance of the event.
To find out about the possibility of a free gift, you should open directly the window of the corresponding functionality.
When donating free postcards There are no restrictions on users, that is, you can give the same gift multiple times to one or several users of the social network.
If you currently don’t have any free items in the corresponding section, don’t worry. To always be aware of the availability of free congratulatory pictures, it is recommended to subscribe to one or more on the VK.com website.
Also carefully follow VK news in your activity feed in the section "News", since the administration quite often mentions the emergence of new opportunities in such a way that it is simply impossible not to notice them. Of course, this only happens in case of extremely important events, and not because of every single free gift.
Please note that free gift items include some stickers, the appearance of which can also be monitored using special public pages.
Internal Applications
The second method of receiving free gifts is more of an additional feature than a full-fledged functionality, since in this case the postcard will not be presented in the corresponding block. However, you can easily place the necessary picture and the necessary signature on the wall of any site user.
When using special applications, you can send free gifts or just postcards only to those people who are on the list of your friends and do not block the ability to publish posts on the wall. In any other case, this method will not work for you.
In the vastness of the section "Games" VKontakte has a huge number of different applications aimed at sending gifts. In this article, we will only touch on one of the most popular and fairly secure applications in order to clearly show how it all works and what you will get by using such features.
- Through the main menu of the VKontakte website, go to the section "Games".
- Scroll the page and use the search field to find applications by word "Postcards".
- Open the application and familiarize yourself with the interface (in this case, the application is used « » ).
- You can use one of several sections presented for quick access to gifts according to your requirements.
- It is also possible to search using keywords.
- After you have selected a suitable picture, left-click on it to open a special window for sending a gift.
- Here you are given the opportunity to configure the mailing in detail, regarding the selection of people with the available option of sending a postcard and writing an original message supplied with the picture. In addition, thanks to additional sorting, you can automatically send messages to all birthday boys, girls or boys.
- After detailed settings, click the button "Send" to send a postcard to a friend’s wall.
- As soon as the postcard is sent, the application will post a corresponding post on the user’s wall with a picture and your personal signature.
It is possible to search applications by word "Present", however, in this case the functionality remains the same, but the choice of add-ons presented is significantly reduced.
Apart from this feature, the application does not perform any other functions. Thus, the problem of sending free gifts through applications can be considered solved.
In addition to the basic information, it is worth considering that the standard functionality of VK allows you to send not only pictures with captions, but also stickers. Applications, unfortunately, do not have this feature, but despite this, VKontakte also has a number of solutions regarding the process of receiving free stickers.
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