How to remove a created group. How to delete a group on the VK social network. The only sure way to escape

Someone is just creating a group in social network“Vkontakte”, and someone, at this very moment, comes to the conclusion that a community created with one’s own hands is completely useless, and it needs to be deleted as quickly as possible. This is how the world works: the passage of time and changes in interests prompt a person to new actions. Even in the field of digital technology, the philosophy of life remains unchanged. And the Internet is no exception.

So, dear reader, if you belong to the second category of group owners on the VKontakte social network, that is, you want to consign the product to oblivion social activities, which was painstakingly created over days, months, and maybe even years, then this instruction is for you. We decided to delete the VKontakte group - so be it.

How to delete a large group?

Work undoubtedly ennobles a person, only if it is for the good. This means that if a community has, for example, 2 thousand participants, hundreds of photos, dozens of videos and many forum “threads”, getting rid of the created group on your own is not entirely advisable, although in principle it is possible.

Don't rush to roll up your sleeves! First, try contacting VKontakte technical support. Believe me, the administrators of the social network have much more opportunities than the average user. It would be fair to assume that in order to completely delete the community you organized, they would only need to press one button (figuratively speaking).

Log in to your VKontakte account.
Click on the “Help” section in the horizontal menu on the page.
Under the inscription “Here you can report...” enter in the field a request to delete your own group. State your will as briefly and clearly as possible. For example: “Please delete my group (+ link to it).”

If the VKontakte admins are favorable to you, that is, they respond to your request, the group will soon disappear. And you won’t need to rack your brains anymore about how to delete a VKontakte group - only memories will remain from it - that’s all.
Well, if your “prays” are not heard, use the method described below.

How to delete a VKontakte group yourself

Rely on your own strength - good trait. If you wanted, you created, if you wanted, you destroyed, if you can, of course. In other words, if you have a small community, you can remove it through your own efforts, without resorting to outside, much less otherworldly, help.

1.Go to your “In Contact” page, go to the group that you want to delete.

2. Before deleting a VKontakte group, you must remove all content from it: photo albums, documents, videos, links, discussions, etc.

Advice! Before deleting content, visually review it. Perhaps among the downloaded material there will be information that is valuable to you (photos, videos, text files, digital copies pdf). You can download it without any problems from the VK server using special programs, as well as browser applications (addons).

3. On home page groups in the right panel (under the avatar), go to the “Community Management” section.

4. Open the "Information" tab.

5. Disable content display on the community wall. Opposite each element (“Photos”, “Videos”, etc.) set the setting to “Disabled”.

6. In the “Group Type” column, enter “Private”.

8. In the same section (Community Management), go to the “Members” tab. And remove all participants (the “Remove from community” button opposite the avatar). If you had administrative assistants, click the “Managers” subsection, and in the same way relieve them of their duties - administering the group.

Attention! Under no circumstances remove yourself from the group at this stage, otherwise you will lose administrator rights and, accordingly, will not be able to remove it from the social network.

9. After the list of members has been cleared, check your settings again, and then remove yourself from the community. To do this, click in the function menu (right panel under the avatar) “Leave group”.

10. Go to your VKontakte page and open “My Groups”. If the deletion procedure was completed correctly, the community will not be in the list of groups. Also try to find the group through the internal search of the social network; the system should report that there is no such community.

That's it! Now your once beloved, and maybe not so beloved, group on the social network VKontakte has safely disappeared into oblivion.

Good luck and enjoy your time online! Who knows, maybe after deleting this group, you will create a new one - even better than the previous one - more colorful and interesting.

It’s worse when the profile is edited by unknown persons or blocked for the owner and used for who knows what purposes. One day you may suddenly find yourself a member of a terrorist group or a disreputable community.

What to do?

No one has canceled the general security rules: the password should be as complex and combined as possible. In no case should you “share” your contact information; the less personal data, photographs, videos are written in the profile, the better, and if a lot has already been “declassified”, you should delete everything.

It helps a lot to hide your profile and limit other people’s activity as much as possible in the privacy settings. This will not provide 100% protection, but it works as a method of fighting annoying spammers.

No less carefully should you select VKontakte communities, membership in which is offered by someone (even if best friend) or even desirable for the user himself. But if you happen to end up in a dubious group or simply lose interest in the community, it is better to delete it immediately.

How to delete groups?

Deleting a community in VKontakte is quite simple. You need to log into your profile and click the My groups link to the left of the main photo. Having done this, the user is taken to the Community page, where all the groups in which he is a member are displayed in the form of a list, sorted as they join them, in descending order - from newest to oldest.

To delete a group, just enter it, i.e. find it in this list and click on it, and then, on the main page of the community, click on the Leave group link on the right side of the screen.

Subtleties of the process

If a community was created on the basis of a third-party site and is only presented in Contact, then it cannot be deleted, because the user is considered subscribed to the news of this community. Accordingly, on the main page you will need to click “Unsubscribe” and not “Exit from”.
In fact, it is impossible to delete someone else’s group or public page; you can only leave it or its subscribers. Those. the user does not receive information about updates, but the community itself remains where it was.
Moreover, even if the group was created by the user himself, he cannot delete it. You can make the group as closed as possible, i.e. remain its only member (this is done on the same Community page on the Management tab), or leave it, while the rights of the Group Administrator are transferred to someone else.

These are the costs of publicity - it is not always possible to reverse it; the consequences of some user actions will remain as long as his profile exists in VKontakte.

Hello, friends! Many VKontakte users not only have their own page on this social network, but also a group. In the previous article, we figured out if you have a lot of posts there, not all of them relate to the topic of the community, or you even want to change the topic of the group.

Before deleting a VKontakte group that you created yourself, weigh the pros and cons. If you have a lot of subscribers, posts are actively discussed, users themselves add various materials to the group, then maybe you shouldn’t delete it completely. Try to find a person who will agree to take over the management of this community.

In the same case, if everything is completely the opposite, and you have no desire to engage in the group, you need to delete it. VKontakte does not have a similar function, so you need to delete all subscribers, make the group closed or private, and leave it. You can also delete all posts, photos, audio and videos. Let's look at all this in more detail.

Removing from the computer

If you access VKontakte from a computer or laptop, then through the browser we go to our page. Then select “Groups” in the left menu, go to the “Management” tab and click on the desired community.

On the right side under the cover, click on the three vertical dots and select “Manage Community” from the drop-down list.

Then on the right side of the menu, click on “Settings”. In the “Basic Information” section, you can change the name of the group - write something like “Group deleted”. Also clear the Community Description field, select Group Type - Private or Private, and remove the cover image. Click "Save".

Scroll down the page and in the section " Additional Information» clear the Website field. Save your changes.

If desired, you can completely delete all information from the group: video, audio, photos, documents, etc. I will clean the wall using the Instrumentum app. I wrote about it in detail in the article: deleting posts from the wall, the link to which is given at the beginning of the article.

After deleting members, information and changing the group type, click on the “You are in a group” button. From the drop-down list, select “Leave Group”.

Confirm that you are indeed going to leave the community of which you are an administrator.

If you are still not completely sure and, perhaps, in the future you will want to restore the deleted group on VK, then you do not need to leave the community. In this case, at any time you can make the group open and invite people there.

Via phone

For those who access VKontakte via mobile app on your phone or tablet, you need to follow the same steps as described above. Open your page and select “Groups” in the side menu.

Find the community you want to delete from the list and click on it.

Now, in the top right corner, click on the gear icon.

The "Manage Community" page will open. From the list, select “Information”.

Here you need to change the name of the group, delete its description and information in the “Website” field.

Scroll down and change the “Group Type” to “Private”. Save your changes by clicking on the checkmark in the upper right corner.

The social network is not a new phenomenon; rather, it is already a trend that has taken root among many. The vast majority of modern users are members of at least one social network. This is really convenient, because such resources have proven themselves well, and besides, they are literally “stuffed” with various functions and capabilities.

Let's take VKontakte, for example. In addition to direct communication, the user can join communities, leave comments in it, share useful information etc. In addition, anyone can create a group of interests themselves and be its administrator. By the way, he can also delete it. If it didn’t work out successfully, I’ll tell you how to do it further.

How to leave the group

Before I talk about how to delete a VKontakte community that I created myself, I will tell you how you can leave the group. There are plenty of reasons for this; most often, when a large number of publics accumulate, the user carries out a massive “purge”, trying to remove all the communities that have lost their former relevance for him.

To leave a boring group, you must first open it. To do this, click on the line on the left side of the “My Groups” screen. The entire list of publics in which you are a member will open in front of you. Find the one you need and go into it. Now, right under , you will see the active line “Leave group”, click on it. If the group open type, you will simply cease to be its participant, but if it is closed, an additional window will open in front of you in which you will need to confirm your decision.

How to delete your group

Now we have reached the most interesting place! So, how do you delete a community in which you are an administrator? The process, of course, is not as fast as leaving the group, but it can be dealt with quite quickly.

Someone is just creating a group on the VKontakte social network, and someone, at that very moment, comes to the conclusion that a community they created with their own hands is completely useless, and it needs to be deleted as quickly as possible. This is how the world works: the passage of time and changes in interests prompt a person to new actions. Even in the field of digital technology, the philosophy of life remains unchanged. And the Internet is no exception.

So, dear reader, if you belong to the second category of group owners on the VKontakte social network, that is, you want to consign into oblivion a product of social activity that you painstakingly created over days, months, and maybe even years, then these instructions are for you. We decided to delete the VKontakte group - so be it.