Get ready for Facebook to be a whole lot more animated.
The social network has caved and joined the GIF party. That's right, you can finally post an animated GIF in your Facebook status update.
"We're rolling out support for animated GIFs in News Feed," a Facebook spokesperson confirmed in an email to PCMag.com. "This is so you can share more fun, expressive things with your friends on Facebook."
To post one for yourself, just paste the link to the GIF you want to use into your status update box and hit the publish button. It's as simple as that. You can use GIFs from sites like Giphy, Imgur, Hulu's new search engine, or anywhere else.
The feature is still kind of limited, though. At this point, it only works when you paste the link to a GIF that's already been uploaded to the Web. If you try to upload one that's saved on your computer using the "add photos/video" feature, the GIF will be converted to a still image, according to TechCrunch. It's also not working on brand Pages at this time.
The move to allow animated GIFs is a huge about-face for Facebook, which has until now shunned the moving images, likely fearing slow load times and cluttered News Feeds.
Twitter held off for a long time, but caved last year.
Meanwhile, if you're looking for a GIF to post, there's no shortage of places to find them. Imgur earlier this year launched a new Video to GIF site to turn your favorite TV episodes, home movies, or music video into a looping animation. Hulu also recently got into the GIF game with a new site that lets you search for and browse TV-themed GIFs by show, actions (such as cleaning, cooking, dancing, driving, etc.), or reactions (like bored, confused, disappointed, and excited).