Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer Radio Report – September 5, 2013

The internet’s favorite type of picture, the GIF, has finally made its way to Facebook’s Timeline. Sort of. Giphy, a website that’s basically a search engine for GIFs, recently designed a workaround to get animated pictures onto your Facebook page. Giphy has created a code that makes GIFs loop on Facebook, and it works exactly like posting a link to a video. You can’t upload any GIF you want, though – it has to be one you find on Giphy’s site. Once you find an image you want to share, copy the URL from that page or click “Share GIF” to add it to your Timeline or Newsfeed. Your Facebook friends will see it as a video, and when they click the play button you’ll get the looping GIF animation we’ve come to know and love. Facebook commented by saying the site does not support animated GIFs. While the workaround is somewhat limited and is far from officially sanctioned, GIFs have at long last made their way to Facebook.