Facebook Now Supports Animated GIF Images on News Feeds (Timelines)

In case you still don’t know what GIF image is; GIF is a Graphic Interchange Format, which is another common image format widely accepted on most devices and very similar to your JPEG and PNG image format, but unlike the JPEG and PNG, GIF images are mostly animated and still maintains the general mini-size of normal images.

I know you have seen many animated images on the web that looks like very short clips and that is always in continuous repeat mode – most of those types of images are GIF.

Now, you might have been wondering why you have not been seeing such animated images on Facebook news feeds (timeline) and even some of you might have desired to see such images on Facebook and have even gone ahead to uploading GIF images on your Facebook timelines, hoping to see the GIF images in animated form just the way it was exactly designed to be.

But you notice that even after uploading the animated GIF images to your Facebook timelines, the images are still stagnated and never animated.

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It is happening that way simply because Facebook right from inception does not provide any support for animated GIF.

As you read this today, Facebook has finally announce that it has started enabling support for GIF images on news Feeds to allow Facebook users all over the world to even partake in more fun in uploading and sharing some of their favourite and funny GIF images.

This is the latest development and addition coming out from the current number one social media network on the web today.

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Since this feature is new and Facebook is still rolling it out, you might not notice the animated GIF yet in some of your locations when you upload it to your timeline, but as time goes on, it will become fully functional to all.

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But nonetheless you can still go ahead to try this feature out by uploading a GIF link image to your Facebook timeline, which you can easily get from some famous free image hosting and sharing companies like IMGUR or GHIPHY and see if the images will be animated as announced by Facebook.

You could recall that in 2013, Facebook started offering support for auto-play videos which you now easily see all over different Facebook news feeds.