GIFs are all the rage. Despite the fact that this format was launched many years ago, they are living a golden age thanks to social networks. They are everywhere and we use them every day everywhere. Zuckerberg knows it and you can now reply with GIFs on Facebook.
They are on Twitter, on Facebook, on WhatsApp, on Telegram, on Messenger ... It is rare to find a place where we do not come across a GIF and it is rare to imagine what social networks were like before we used them, although it was only a short time ago. They are fashionable and you can no longer only use them in Facebook posts or in the messaging app, now also responding.
Reply with GIFs on Facebook
If you see a photo that you liked of any friend or family member on Facebook, you can now put a GIF on it to show your approval and not settle for just a sticker or a comment. To answer we will only have to click on the application button that shows "GIF" and that now appears on the right side of the box to write, in the Android app, next to the stickers.
You can choose one of those that appear or use the GIF finder to find something specific and leave a comment, as has been done on WhatsApp for a few weeks or how we have done on Twitter for more than a year. Once you choose it, you can leave the comment and it will be sent automatically as a response. You will have to choose the GIF you want to put well because you will not be able to accompany it with text. If you want to add something you will have to leave another comment.
The service is now available to anyone with a Facebook account, worldwide. It will be enough for us to access our application on Android and comment to all our friends by filling the social network with images of Han Solo winking or Chuck Norris kicking.
GIFs on Facebook
According to Facebook, users sent almost 13.000 million GIFs last year and more than 25.000 GIFs are sent every minute on the social network. In the last year, the use of this type of images has tripled by sending them through Messenger. The most popular time to send these types of files has been, according to Zuckerberg's social network, New Year's Day 2017, in which more than 400 million animated GIFs were sent.
A success of a format that is now 30 years old and that Facebook wants to celebrate by allowing us that, beyond the reactions, the “likes”, the comments and the stickers, we can also use GIFs.