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GIF Up Your Facebook Timeline With This Third-Party Workaround
- BY ROBERTO BALDWIN
- 08.29.13
- 1:16 PM
Your Timeline just got awesome. Photo: Alex Washburn / WIRED
Facebook hasn’t been a very GIF-friendly part of the Web. It’s still not. But a third-party Flash workaround lets you incorporate these animated gems into your timeline anyway.
Press play for explosive GIF action.
The fine folks over at the Betaworks-owned Giphy have given us what Facebook has yet to implement natively: embedded GIFs that play in your timeline. Well, not exactly GIFs. Giphy actually creates a Flash video that it embeds in your timeline. Still, it’s pretty cool. Just search for a GIF on Giphy, and when you find the 10-20 frames that really nail how you feel, click on the share to Facebook button. Your animated status update will now be included with your friends’ political rantings and photos of their children — all without forcing them to load another page to see a kitten fight a potato.
If you’re thinking this will mean that officially-sanctioned native GIFs are coming from Facebook, don’t hold your breath. Facebook issued a statement about Giphy’s “GIF” embedding work-around: “Facebook does not support animated GIFs.”
Even without native support, the Flash-based GIF workaround won’t turn your Facebook timeline into a MySpace-like parade of looping GIFs every time you load it. Instead, they’ll only begin their looping action when you press play. Which is actually a good call. We all remember how horrible MySpace got with all those sparkly butterfly GIFs. So many sparkly butterflies.
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