Facebook has a make-new feature, and here'south how to apply it

FACEBOOK has finally begun letting users mail service GIFs in comments, giving yous that perfect hilarious response to a friend on the social networking site.

Facebook now lets users post a GIF in a comment GETTY • FACEBOOK

Facebook now lets users mail a GIF in a comment, here's how to do it

Facebook this week has started letting users post a GIF in a comment.

The long sought subsequently feature became available yesterday, with Facebook now hooked upward to the Giphy database giving you access to nearly any GIF e'er.

To add a GIF into a Facebook comment, you lot simply accept to click or tap the comments box as per usual.

On the bottom right paw side there are a number of icons, a smiley face for emojis, a camera icon for photos and a sticker icon.

Now, the third one along from the left is a GIF icon.

Click on this and a pop-up window will appear, showing you the trending GIFs that you can coil through.

Above the trending GIFs, at that place is a search bar where you can enter keywords to detect the particular GIF you are looking for.

Easy peasy. Even so, if you desire to add together a GIF to your status you lot have to go through a few more steps.

Facebook GIF icon shown in a comment FACEBOOK

The GIF icon appears when you go to mail a comment on Facebook now

Facebook brings up trending GIFs when you go to add one to a comment FACEBOOK

Facebook brings upwards trending GIFs when you lot go to add one to a annotate

Currently, when you go to update your status on Facebook there is no GIF icon available.

The easiest way to add in a GIF to a Facebook status is to go to the GIPHY website.

At that place, just search for the GIF y'all're trying to find and then click on information technology.

You will then exist presented with a screen showing the GIF and a number of options - such equally download, embed and copy link.

You can use GIPHY to add GIFs to a Facebook status GIPHY

You can use the GIPHY website to add together GIFs to a Facebook status

You can use GIPHY to add GIFs to a Facebook status GIPHY

After finding a GIF on GIPHY re-create over the Short Link and so by that in a Facebook comment

You can use GIPHY to add GIFs to a Facebook status FACEBOOK

Once yous copy over the GIPHY short link, the GIF appears in your Facebook condition

If yous press re-create link it will bring upwardly the Links screen. On that screen there is an choice to get a Short Link to the GIF.

If you copy that link, yous can and so return to Facebook and paste information technology into your status bar.

In one case you practise that, the GIF volition appear in your status. Yous can so tidy it up past deleting the brusque URL and then writing your status as normal.

The GIF push was added to Facebook comments on the solar day that the GIF historic its 30th birthday.

The creator of the GIF, Steve Wilhite, previously said the GIF (or Graphics Interchange Format) is actually meant to be pronounced "JIF, not GIF".

He created the GIF on June 15 1987 while he was working for the bulletin board service provider CompuServe.