Social networks are an integral part of our lives. They give us great opportunities to communicate with each other, view and download photos and the like. You can also use them to promote your products or offer services. This is done with the help of various groups and communities.
Groups on VK
Today we will talk about a popular social network called VKontakte. It doesn’t matter for what purpose the user created this or that community - either for communication between people with common interests, or for advertising their product - sooner or later, some creators have a question about how to delete a community on VKontakte.
And such questions arise for the reason that this resource does not provide a function for deleting a group as such. Don’t rush to get upset, there is a way out. And now you will learn several ways on how to delete a community on VK.
First option
Log in to the site, then open your groups section. Find yours and go into it. We strongly recommend that you save the link to the public page somewhere so that you can later check whether it is active or deleted. Then activate the community management feature and go to the members section.
Removing participants
Manually delete all the people who are members here. Do not forget to do the same manipulation with your own account, but only as a last resort, since after this you will lose all your powers and will not be able to do anything, but the public will be active. Please note that this requires administrator rights.
Please note that next to each photo of a person who is a member there is a link - “Remove from the community”. With its help, each participant is deleted individually. Next, after deleting all users, transfer your group to closed, if it was open before (everyone knows how to close the VKontakte community). Only after this you need to remove yourself from it.
The group will be around for some time
Close the group window and return to your account. Please note that now this public will not be on your page, but if you enter the address of the community in the browser, it will still be available. Do not rush to get upset, because the group is now closed, and there are no longer any participants in it. This means that no one else will be able to join there.
We looked at one of the ways to delete a community on VKontakte. As you can see, there is nothing complicated about this. However, if your public has 100,500 members and also contains many albums with photos, then manual deletion can be very difficult. Can you imagine how long the whole process will take you? But there is a solution for this situation, so it’s time to consider the second option of how to delete a community on VKontakte.
Alternative
To implement this method, you will need special software called “VKBot”. It also allows you to delete all data without much wisdom and effort. The mentioned multifunctional application will be able to remove all members of the community instead of you. Media files uploaded to the page will also be removed. Messages left by you or your followers will be deleted. In general, this software eliminates any content and data in the public, including comments.
So, how to delete a community on VKontakte using this method? First of all, run the above program. When it downloads, you will definitely need to enter your account information. You will see a special window in which you should enter a password. Please note that they must fully match the username and password with which you log into your personal page of the relevant social network.
Upon successful login, you should see a menu appear in front of you. There will be quite a lot of sections in it, but now we are only interested in one - “Group”. Next, we need to find the items we are interested in: “Deleting comments”, “Deleting group users”, “Deleting discussions” and so on. That is, you mark everything that is somehow connected with the community.
In this case, you should not worry about the order in which the content and data will be destroyed. For starters, all that’s left to do is remove all the existing administrators on the public page, and relieve yourself of this position. This completes the removal procedure. As you can see, there is nothing complicated or supernatural here either.
Please note that if there is no need to completely delete a group because it just no longer meets some of your criteria, it makes sense to simply assign other users to the administrator position. All you have to do is leave the community. Some may have a new question: “How can VKontakte leave the community?” In this case, there will be no hassle at all, you will simply leave the group, and it will continue to exist.
Very often, users of the social network VKontakte are faced with the question of how to delete a group in VKontakte, which they no longer need for various reasons. If you also have difficulty deleting a group, we offer you clear step-by-step instructions with attached images, which you can enlarge by clicking on them. There is nothing complicated about this, and by the end of the article you will be convinced of this.
- First, we enter the site in Contact, which has now finally “moved” and is located at the short address vk.com, which you need to type in your favorite browser.
Enter your phone number or e-mail as your login and password. If you don’t want the website to remember you on this computer and let you in without a login and password next time, check the “Someone else’s computer” box.
- To delete a group in a contact, you need to manually delete all its members, including yourself. In this case, you must have the status of one of the group administrators. But you will need to delete yourself last, since otherwise you will no longer be able to perform any actions in the group, and the group itself will remain active. So let's get started. Click on the “My Groups” link.
- In the window that opens, click on the link with the name of the group to be deleted.
- Save the group's Internet address that you see in the address bar of your browser in Notepad or Word. With its help, we will then check the success of deleting the group.
- Click on the “Community Management” link
and in the window that opens, go to the “Participants” tab.
- We remove each of the group members by clicking on the “Remove from group” link opposite the photo. Don’t forget that we remove ourselves last.
- Once you have removed all members, move the group from open to closed and remove yourself from the group. Next you will understand why this is needed.
- If you copy the group address from step 4 into your browser's address bar, you may notice that the group is still active and you are its leader.
- Close the group window in the browser and return to your account. You will notice that the group has been removed from your page and you are no longer a member of it.
- Now you can’t get into the group through your account or through the accounts of its participants. But if you type the group's address into your browser, you will see that it is still available online. This is why it was necessary to change the name of the group in paragraph 7. There are no users in the group, it is closed, which means no one will be able to get into it.
VKontakte has groups and pages. First I'll show you how to leave the group.
2. In this window, all groups, communities, public pages in which you are a member or subscribed are opened. The more often you visit a particular community, the higher it is on this list.
3. In the list of all groups, find the one you want to leave. Right-click on it.
4. A group has opened, we go lower, and under the avatar on the right we see the inscription “You are in a group.” Click on it and select “Leave group” from the drop-down menu.
5. We left the group and now by clicking on “Join the group”, we can become a member again.
Now let's find out how to unfollow a public page.
1. Find the public page that you need to leave. Often under the name there is the inscription “Public page”, you can also find “Website”, “Entertainment”, “Musical group”, etc.
2. Open the page. Under the avatar on the right we see the inscription “You are subscribed to news.” Click on it and select “Unsubscribe from news”.
3. Thus, you have unsubscribed from the public page and can now become a member again by clicking “Subscribe”.
How to unsubscribe from a group in VKontakte
Over time, interests may change, and groups that were more than relevant yesterday will seem like an excessive burden today. How to remove yourself from a group, whose news is not only not interesting, but also not useful?
Removing from the group
- On the user page there is a “My Groups” button. By clicking on it, you are taken to a page listing all the groups and communities in which you are a member.
- Hover over the name of the group you want to leave. A menu will appear. Select “Leave group”. You press the button. Refresh the page - the deleted group will not remain in the list of groups.
Unsubscribe from the community
On the same page where you were removed from the group, you can unsubscribe from receiving community news. Select what you need from the list and uncheck the “show news” box.
Remove from subscriptions
There are groups that we read not because we are interested, but because it is fashionable to read. Sometimes you are smart enough to leave a tick in the subscription box without joining the group completely. This way we protect ourselves from unnecessary surveys and meetings.
It’s easy to unsubscribe from such groups. Select the “My subscriptions” button and uncheck the box next to the desired group. That's all.
Leaving a group is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance.
Public VK pages are effective tools that allow you to promote and popularize your own brand. The procedure for creating them is as simple and clear as possible, accessible to a wide range of people. Despite the fact that everyone can do them, not everyone can do management and development. Next, we’ll tell you how to delete a VK group if you suddenly realize that you no longer want to maintain it.
Removal Features
The VK service provides its users with complete freedom in creating public pages. So, you can become a public administrator in literally two clicks - just go to the appropriate section in the main vertical menu and click on the “Create” button. As for removal, this procedure is not so easy and takes a lot of time.
It is noteworthy that you cannot delete a VKontakte group in the usual sense. The management of the social network has not given its users such powers. However, there are two ways that will allow you to remove your administrator responsibilities and block the community you created. The first involves excluding all subscribers of the public, the second involves sending a message to the support service. Next, we will describe each of them in detail and list the main features.
The first way to delete a group on VK
It is not possible to completely get rid of a public page, but you have the right to completely clear it, which can be considered deletion. This can be done provided that you are its sole administrator or creator.
Step-by-step instructions on how to delete your group on VK:
- Go to the community you created
- Clear your wall by eliminating all posted posts and photos.
- Get rid of photo and video albums, audio materials and discussions and other documents
- Proceed to remove members
- Change the type to private
- Eliminate the last participant - yourself.
Performing these actions will result in a blank page remaining in VKontakte, which means actual deletion. Also, together the names can be written: “DELETED”.
If you are the admin of a public page, you will first have to change its category to group. To do this, click on the “Manage” button located under the avatar.
The second way to delete a VKontakte group
The instructions presented above are only relevant if you are eliminating a small community. What if your public page has more than three thousand subscribers, hundreds of photos, videos and other materials? Getting rid of all this manually is not only time-consuming, but also impractical.
You can remove the public by contacting VK support. Below are step-by-step instructions on how to do this:
How to leave all communities
Have a huge number of uninteresting public posts accumulated, the entries of which spoil your news feed? You can leave them all at once by simply installing a special extension for Google Chrome - VKopt.
Step-by-step instructions on how to delete all groups at once in VK:
After completing these steps, you will automatically leave all public pages and cease to be among their participants. The posts and posts they publish will disappear from your news feed.