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August 29, 2013 07:06 pm GMT
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GIFs Return to Facebook
GIF-lovers, rejoice: The web's favorite animation form returned to Facebook on Thursday, thanks to GIF search engine Giphy.
Facebook supported GIFs in "the early days," Giphy co-founder Alex Chung tells Mashable, but stopped supporting them presumably because "they didn't want to look like a MySpace mess with all the blinking garbage on profile pages."
Since then, the GIF has evolved from what Chung describes as "lame clip art" to "an art form." So Giphy worked with Facebook to allow users to share and embed GIFs from giphy.com — at least until Facebook natively supports GIFs again (if it ever does). Read more...
More about Facebook, Social Media, Gifs, and GiphyOriginal Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/XeY1FGYg3dM/
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