How to post a gif on facebook

Post gif file on facebook: Laughing faces, bubbling hearts, glitters all these are Gif. These are something which is so in trend now. And almost everyone is using gifs on social media platforms. Though now it is so easy to post gif on facebook but initially gifs were not allowed by the facebook. As they thought it would not look good on the site and might create chaos. But as, gifs were being liked at such a huge level facebook grabbed this trend too. And hence, today we are able to send and post our favourite gifs on facebook.

In this article we are going to tell you every single thing you need to follow to post gifs on facebook. So for learning more about it keep on reading the post below.

Sharing gifs with your friends or family or sharing them is quite an easy thing to do. But posting a gif on facebook is not that much easy.

What is a gif?

Before we start with anything else, knowing about gif is a crucial thing. So, we are going to tell you about gif, what exactly it is?

A Gif is termed as a Graphics Interchange Format image. Though they look like a single image but it is not. They are basically like a short video which contains an action or movement. There are two types of gif files: the first one is moving files which are kind of an animated gif. And the other one is a static image. Now let’s talk about how to post gifs on facebook.

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Posting a gif on facebook

A bit earlier what happened is that for posting gifs on facebook you had to make your own gif file on your device. And after creating it you had to upload it to giphy or somewhere similar and then connect or link it to the facebook. But now you do not have to do all these things and can directly post any gif that you want to. All you have to do is to just select the gif from gifs icon as the gifs are now directly present on facebook. But remember in some situations you have to follow the earlier method also.

Here we are telling you the complete process or you can say steps that you need to follow in order to post a gif on the facebook. You can add gifs anywhere you want to either while commenting on anyone’s profile picture or while posting it as your status on the home page or while posting. Given below are the steps how you can add your favorite gifs on a comment or post. Have a look below:

1. Firstly, create your comment or post whatever you want to upload.
2. After doing that you have to tap the small gray GIF icon which is present in the input box.
3. Now choose any gif from trending GIFs or you can also search for one in the search bar at the top.
4. Now just tap on the gif that you want to add in your post or comment.

Usually, there are already pre-selected trending GIFs available in the gif icon and from where you can choose any gif. For getting more gifs you will have to Scroll down the box. There are unlimited gifs present in that box. And hence, for selecting a gif as per your preference we would recommend you to simply search it directly from the search option.

Posting a gif in your status in facebook

So if you are uploading a status and you want to add a gif to it you can do that also. But for that you will have to follow the same old process,you just cannot directly add a gif in your status. You will have to create a gif by your own and then have to upload it to any third party site that is giphy or imgur. And after that just link it into your status.

We are now telling you the complete steps that you will need to follow and we are taking giphy as an example.

1. First of all search for a GIF you want to use in your status update.
2. Now choose Copy Link on the right of the GIF.
3. Now choose Short Link and then copy it.
4. Now just add it into your Facebook status update.
5. You can edit it if you want to.

This is how you can add gifs to your facebook status and also in the posts and comments. For any further information or query, you can directly connect with us by leaving a comment below.