Well now facebook formally rolled out an upgrade that supports these animated gifs to be shared publically on facebook with your friends. So today we are going to see how you publish animated gif images on facebook and share them quickly.
Share A Gif On Facebook
Firstly you can not directly publish any GIF on facebook as its not going to show it, the only method right now is to use 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 automatically on facebook.
1. Browse the GIF image that you wish to share on facebook.
2. You can develop 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 site that offers you the image with direct link to open in internet browser.
4. I would choose Imgur.com over other as it enables you to host your images without register as well as limitless 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 links to that image on the right hand side, select the 2nd yellow highlighted link like in the image above.
7. Copy that link but make certain 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 need to make certain that the above step is done, else it will reveal the link as video.
9. Now your link is all set, merely head over to Facebook and indication 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 Share A Gif On Facebook with your friends.