Comments on Facebook Finally Can Use GIF

Facebook finally allows users to comment with GIF format. The feature has been tested since a few months ago and is now officially released for all users.

When you open the Facebook page, you can comment on a friend's post with GIF which is a short moving image. The reaction option with the GIF is an icon labeled "GIF" next to emoji icons, stickers, and attach photos, as well as videos.

GIF on Facebook's core social networking is basically similar to GIF on the Facebook Messenger chat service. There are some colleagues who are embraced as GIF providers, namely Giphy, Tenor, and Disney.

Note that you can only use GIF from the search provided in the comments field. That is, GIF is just from partner Facebook.

You can not upload your own GIF to react to friends' posts, as Mashable reported and compiled KompasTekno, Friday (16/06/2017).

Before Facebook, comments with GIF were already made possible in the Twitter microblog service. The mechanism is more or less the same, where users can menyomot GIF which has been provided in the "reply" Twitter.

GIF feature on Facebook Messenger was fairly popular. In 2016 alone, GIF exchange on Facebook Messenger is reported to reach 13 billion times. Every minute, Facebook says, there are about 25,000 GIFs that users exchange for expression via chat.