Recently, users of the VK social network have been able to hide their pages with privacy settings. The site administration decided to introduce this function to allow people to show information about themselves only to those people they know and who is in their contact list. In fact, viewing a closed VK profile without adding a friend is possible, but only if certain conditions are met.
The main ways to get information about a user
Not all members of the social network preferred to close their profiles in the privacy settings, so first you should click on the link of the person of interest and wait for his profile to load. If it is closed, a corresponding notification with a padlock icon will appear on the screen. At the same time, some of the information will remain available even in this case, namely:
- profile photo thumbnail;
- date of birth (if not hidden);
- city (if not hidden);
- place of study or work and other data.
In addition, you can see the total number of user contacts, and links to common friends with him will be available at all. It's worth starting with this: try to ask common acquaintances with a request to convey any information about the person you are interested in, for example, his new photos, videos and other data. Of course, you will have to come up with a good reason why you want to find out what you want without adding it to your friends, but understanding people are likely to help without unnecessary and inconvenient questions.
To see a closed profile in VK without adding it to friends, in all details, it is better to ask for access to it through the page of one of his friends. If you know a person well, you can come to visit him and ask him to open the desired profile from a computer or mobile phone. It may not be superfluous to add a few more people as friends who communicate with the person of interest, if it was not possible to get the data through someone the first time.
Additional tricks
Nowadays, it is quite easy to create a so-called "fake" page on VK in order to secretly observe different people and even communicate with them. For example, you can introduce yourself as a longtime acquaintance of a person or employee of a company, store or news publication and try to add as a friend. If successful, you will be able to view the private profile, and the user will not even guess who he is really dealing with.
Try entering the first and last name, city and other information about the person in one or more Internet search engines. Often information from social networks, including photos, is kept in the public domain for some time (a kind of archived "snapshot" of the page). There are even sites where you can view a profile by ID by pasting a link to it in a special field and finding out if there is any publicly available data left.
Be careful and wary of sites, as well as people offering to provide data about a person or even hack a closed profile on VK for money or other valuables. Firstly, it is illegal, and secondly, there is a high risk of becoming a victim of scammers. The only simple and affordable way to find out the personal information about a VKontakte user is to simply overcome shyness and send a request to add as a friend. A lot of people are always happy to chat and find new acquaintances, so they will approve your request without any problems.
