Now you can (almost) post gifs to Facebook

The cool kids at giphy just had a post this morning that almost made me very happy.
The claim is that you can now post animated gifs on Facebook.
The cool kids at NowThis News got very excited.

Breaking GIF News: You can now post animated GIFs to Facebook using @Giphy http://t.co/zYQmT5DKSZ

— NowThis News (@nowthisnews) August 29, 2013

The uncool kid in me forces me to say this: Not quite.

Although you can post a giphy link and play the gif on Facebook (like playing a Youtube video), it's not like posting a gif directly, like you can on Google Plus or Tumblr (OHAI News Cat Gifs!)

I admit, it is still pretty cool (and less intrusive, I'd imagine).

@ivanlajara We are savoring the moment, with or without a play button ; )

— NowThis News (@nowthisnews) August 29, 2013

And then I remembered something cooler. You can MAKE your own gif with the gifboom app (WARNING: Contains teenagers) from your phone and share it on Facebook. And the result will be the same:

Post by Ivan Lajara.

Not crazy about Gifboom? You can do the same with Cinemagram, and pretty much anything else.

Post by Ivan Lajara.

And yes, you can embed Facebook posts. That's soooo yesterday.

DFM Chat on Vine, mobile video and uses for journalism

Journalists, members of Digital First Media and pretty much everyone else who wants to - are going to be taking part on the weekly Twitter chat Wednesday at noon, Eastern Time.

Useless gifboom of my cat doesn't help the journalistic case

Today we're talking about mobile video platforms and how they can be used in journalism. Yes, I'm talking about Twitter's newly released micro-video platform Vine. But what about Tout, SocialCam, Gifboom, Cinemagram and the rest? What ARE the rest? Or is this just all a big fad? Can you really tell a story on 6 or 15 seconds?

The live feed is posted below. But you can also follow the chat here or here or also here. And you can also check out past chats over here.

If you want to chime in, post a comment in the container or a tweet with the hashtag "#dfmchat" so it can appear below.