Well now facebook officially presented an upgrade that supports these animated gifs to be shared publically on facebook with your friends. So today we are visiting how you submit animated gif images on facebook and share them quickly.
How To Upload A Gif To Facebook
First off you can not straight publish any GIF on facebook as its not going to show it, the only way 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 very own GIF images utilizing YouTube videos or Camtasia Studio or other software application that you like. If you desire 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 supplies you the image with direct link to open in web browser.
4. I would choose Imgur.com over any other as it permits you to host your images without register and even unlimited hosting.
5. So head over to their site, drag your GIF image or press the upload button and submit your animated GIF image on their website.
6. Now after the image is uploaded on IMGUR you will see connect to that image on the right hand side, choose the 2nd yellow highlighted link like in the image above.
7. Copy that link however make certain to remove 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 need to make sure that the above step is done, else it will reveal the link as video.
9. Now your link is prepared, just head over to Facebook and check in.
10. Now paste the link in your status and listed 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 Upload A Gif To Facebook with your friends.