How to post GIF on Facebook

How to post GIF on Facebook: Facebook has confirmed that its platform will now support animated GIF in various information feeds, Facebook users will now be able to post animated GIF to react to post, comment on post and even in a poll question’s options. 

Though the new feature is cool and helpful in interacting with friends on Facebook, the disadvantage may include not being able to post the GIF directly from your device just like sharing images on your Facebook timeline, it can only be done by searching for GIF from an online database or posting a GIF link from a hosted site such as Tumblr, Giphy, Imgur or Google GIF search into the update box and then publish.

This article treats how to post GIF on your Facebook timeline with ease, all you need to do is to follow the procedures below;

  • Search for your desired GIF from any online GIF database such as Google, Tumblr etc
  • Copy the link of the GIF image
  • Paste the link into your box labelled “what’s on your mind” on your Facebook homepage
  • Then finally click “post” to publish it on your timeline

That’s all, isn’t it simple? A small rounded GIF icon will appear in the center of the picture, you can click it to check the image uploading progress, as soon as it is uploaded and the icon disappears. This icon can also remain there when the image is waiting for approval from the page administrators, if you are trying to post it on a closed Facebook page.

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I hope you have being able to post or publish a GIF on your Facebook timeline with this article? Kindly share this with buddies so you all can interact with different funny GIF images.

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