Well now facebook officially rolled out an update 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 easily.
How To Add A Gif To Facebook
First of all you can not directly submit any GIF on facebook as its not going to reveal it, the only way today 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 want to share on facebook.
2. You can produce your very own GIF images utilizing YouTube videos or Camtasia Studio or other software that you like. If you wish to increase speed of GIF you can do so. (the point is that you need 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 web browser.
4. I would choose Imgur.com over other as it enables you to host your images without register as well as unlimited hosting.
5. So head over to their website, drag your GIF image or press the upload button and publish your animated GIF image on their website.
6. Now after the image is submitted on IMGUR you will see links to that image on the right hand side, pick the second 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 end up being http://i.imgur.com/HB4iiCX.gif
8. So you need to make certain that the above action is done, else it will reveal the link as video.
9. Now your link is prepared, merely head over to Facebook and indication in.
10. Now paste the link in your status and 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 How To Add A Gif To Facebook with your friends.