If you noticed that your Facebook News Feed was more animate than usual this daybreak , you were n’t the only one .
Facebook has last begun officially supporting GIFs — you sleep with , those quick - looped liveliness that people on the net use to pass on . For age Facebook did not let users partake in GIFs on their News Feed in an embedded form , only as hyperlinks , send exploiter to another window .
Native GIFs on Facebook ? High five .
According toTechCrunch , Facebook had built - in backing for GIFs since at least 2013 but it just did n’t go live until this daybreak . Reports suggest that the caller feared that allowing GIFs to bolt down up would make the platform “ too chaotic ” and clutter up mass ’s News feed with “ low-toned - quality memes . ”
This has been Facebook ’s experiential struggle from the get - go . Mark Zuckerberg ’s imagination of what the platform could be is sometimes at betting odds with how Facebook drug user really apply the product . Today , Facebook last gave in to the GIF .
“ We ’re rolling out support for renovate GIFs in News Feed . This is so you may share more fun , expressive thing with your friends on Facebook , ” a Facebook interpreter told TechCrunch .
What were they thinking waiting so long to enable this ?
Facebook exploiter will slowly start being capable to copy a GIF connexion from Giphy , Tumblr or Google Images , and when the update is print , the GIF will automatically be animated inline . GIFs are currently seeable on the web and on the Facebook Io app .
A part of Facebook ’s succeeder had to do with its hard-and-fast aesthetical uniformity . The lack of customization is what distinguished it from MySpace , which gave users moderately much carte blanche to design their visibility page with HTML , auto - playing music and video and of course , lot of GIFs . And lease ’s be reliable , most MySpace substance abuser went A - grade graphic designers . So it ready gumption that Facebook would desire to tread carefully , today ’s funny ocular meme could become tomorrow ’s aggregate eyesore .
But there is some grounds that gifs are here to stay . Twitter began supporting GIFs on the vane and on Mobile River last year , and GIFs have been a part of Tumblr ’s indistinguishability since its origination .
