In some ways, it’s a surprising move for Facebook, who was one of the later adopters of the popular moving image format. While gifs have been around for quite some time, it wasn’t until the spring of 2015 that Facebook finally decided to support gifs in its News Feed. Previously, it castigated gifs as being “too chaotic.”
But clearly, the social media giant has had a change of heart. After all, in the last few weeks, Facebook has begun allowing users to leave gifs in comments. And now, you can create your own gifs to share with your
Once you’re done recording, you can add the gif to your Facebook story, post it to your page, or save it locally to your iPhone. To be fair, if you’re saving the moving image to your iPhone, they’ll be saved as videos, and you can’t send the gifs directly to other services. That means that your recordings will basically have to live exclusively in the social network. Guess we can’t have it all…not yet, at least.
For the time being, only certain iPhone users appear to be able to access the GIF function, and Android seems to be completely left in the dark for now. But don’t fret, friends. If this feature proves to be popular (which seems likely to be the case), it’s probably only a matter of time before we’re all recording gifs on Facebook.
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