Well now facebook formally rolled out an upgrade that supports these animated gifs to be shared publically on facebook with your good friends. So today we are going to see how you publish animated gif images on facebook and share them easily.
How To Put Gif On Facebook
Firstly you can not directly submit any GIF on facebook as its not going to show it, the only method today is to utilize any other image hosting website to host your GIF image and after that you can share that animated GIF link on facebook, which will show your GIF instantly on facebook.
1. Browse the GIF image that you want to share on facebook.
2. You can develop your own GIF images using YouTube videos or Camtasia Studio or any other software application that you like. If you want to increase speed of GIF you can do so. (the point is that you have to have a GIF image with you).
3. Now either upload it to Google Drive, Dropbox, or any image hosting site that offers you the image with direct connect to open in web browser.
4. I would prefer Imgur.com over any other as it permits you to host your images without sign up and even endless hosting.
5. So head over to their website, drag your GIF image or press the upload button and submit your animated GIF image on their website.
6. Now after the image is published on IMGUR you will see links to that image on the best hand side, choose the 2nd yellow highlighted link like in the image above.
7. Copy that link however make sure to get rid of the last v from the link, so this link http://i.imgur.com/HB4iiCX.gifv will end up being http://i.imgur.com/HB4iiCX.gif
8. So you have to make sure that the above action is done, else it will reveal the link as video.
9. Now your link is all set, simply head over to Facebook and check in.
10. Now paste the link in your status and below you will see live demo of that GIF image working.
11. You can see the preview by clicking on the image and that will play the GIF image.
12. Now you can remove the link and write down anything as your status.
That's it now this way to can publish unlimited GIF images on facebook and easily share some memories with your friends and family members. So have fun using this trick to share animated gifs on facebook.
And one more thing please don’t forget to share this awesome trick to use the How To Put Gif On Facebook with your friends.