Well now facebook officially rolled out an update 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 easily.
How To Upload A Gif On Facebook
To start with you can not straight publish any GIF on facebook as its not going to reveal it, the only way right now is to use other image hosting website to host your GIF image then you can share that animated GIF link on facebook, which will display your GIF instantly on facebook.
1. Browse the GIF image that you wish to share on facebook.
2. You can produce your own GIF images utilizing YouTube videos or Camtasia Studio or other software application that you like. If you want to increase speed of GIF you can do so. (the point is that you require 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 link to open in web browser.
4. I would choose Imgur.com over other as it allows you to host your images without indication up as well as 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 published on IMGUR you will see links to that image on the right hand side, pick the 2nd yellow highlighted link like in the image above.
7. Copy that link however make certain 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 ensure that the above step is done, else it will show the link as video.
9. Now your link is ready, simply head over to Facebook and indication 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 On Facebook with your friends.