GIFs are finally working on Facebook

Better late than never, right? Facebook appears to be finally rolling out GIF support. After a false start in 2013 when Giphy introduced a workaround that made GIFs from its service appear as videos, Facebook is now allowing GIFs from other websites to play properly. All you need to do to embed your favorite GIF is drop in a link in your status to a GIF hosted on any site, like Tumblr or Imgur, and it’ll play inline. Easy! http://ift.tt/1LNqVFY Posted by Owen Williams on Friday, May 29, 2015 You can check out some animated GIFs in action in this Facebook group. Read Next: Facebook…

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