Well now facebook officially 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 upload animated gif images on facebook and share them quickly.
Adding A Gif To Facebook
Firstly you can not directly upload any GIF on facebook as its not going to reveal it, the only method right now is to use other image hosting site to host your GIF image and after that you can share that animated GIF link on facebook, which will show your GIF automatically on facebook.
1. Browse the GIF image that you desire to share on facebook.
2. You can create your own GIF images utilizing YouTube videos or Camtasia Studio or any other software that you like. If you wish 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 website that provides you the image with direct connect to open in browser.
4. I would prefer Imgur.com over any other as it enables you to host your images without register and even unrestricted hosting.
5. So head over to their website, drag your GIF image or press the upload button and upload your animated GIF image on their site.
6. Now after the image is uploaded on IMGUR you will see links to that image on the ideal hand side, pick the second yellow highlighted link like in the image above.
7. Copy that link however ensure to eliminate the last v from the link, so this link http://i.imgur.com/HB4iiCX.gifv will become http://i.imgur.com/HB4iiCX.gif
8. So you have to make certain that the above step is done, else it will show the link as video.
9. Now your link is all set, merely head over to Facebook and check in.
10. Now paste the link in your status and listed below you will see live demonstration 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 Adding A Gif To Facebook with your friends.