Lately the team of Facebook has reserved a lot of news, a wave of general updates to give the social network a new luster despite more than ten years have passed since its birth. One of the most successful tools and that most of all is undergoing restyling and news in the Facebook universe is certainly Messenger, the integrated messaging system that also works on smartphones.
Surely many of you will use it more or less often even from your smartphone and you will have noticed the presence on the chat of new animations, the GIF that are having so much success on the social network are also present on Messenger, where they can be used to express reactions and moods in a fun way.
But here we give you some advice on how to best use them and where to go fishing to always have new and updated ones.
Send GIFs on Facebook Messenger
Send GIFs directly from Messenger
As the first option, the most immediate, you can use the GIF button on the chat.
From Messenger, in fact, going into your friend's chat, you will notice this GIF button which, if pressed, will load you a list of animations from which you can select yours by specifying a word that will act as a label.
Writing the feeling you want to convey (eg: "OK") will load animated images that are consistent with the message. Prefer English phrases so that you can find what you are looking for more easily. At this point, confirm by tapping on the animation chosen and send it to your contact.
Use a GIF collection associated with Messenger
There are some applications connected directly to Messenger that give you a really vast catalog of animations from which to choose the most relevant and funny GIF for your case, to choose an application among those suggested by Facebook itself go to Messenger, open a chat and go to the last button on the right with the three exclamation points, from the section Gets Apps per Messenger you will find many applications that are right for you.
Specifically our advice is on Giphy, really vast catalog of animations divided by popularity, by upload date, by reaction (agree, angry, applause ...), action (dreaming, crying ...), emotions and then according to their origin, such as tv, music, memes and aniamli.
Once you have chosen the right image, just click on Send to send it via your Messenger to a friend.
If Giphy is not enough for you or you are not satisfied, there are alternatives such as:
- GIF Keyboard
- Bitmoji
- Disney GIF
And many others. And you, are you among those who appreciate GIFs?
How to send GIFs in Facebook Messenger
