A designer for X (formerly Twitter) polled users about adding animated GIFs for profile pics. Twitter banned GIF profiles in 2013, but old ones were allowed to keep them — including me. One person who ...

Facebook just launched a slew of new profile features, including the ability to make your profile picture a GIF or set temporary profile pictures that will change after a specified amount of time. The ...

Changes are coming to Facebook. No, you won’t be paying for the service, but you will be able to change your static profile photo to a “short, looping video,” which Facebook is calling a “profile ...

Facebook has rolled out its new mobile profile options for some lucky users, and if you're among them, it means you have access to the new GIF-like profile pictures. You won't know you have the new ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

While your friends were all busy worrying about Mark Zuckerberg stealing their private information this week, the real news out of Facebook is all about Facebook turning profile pictures into videos.

Hide your eyes. The search engine's social network is embracing the lively images as profile pics on desktop and mobile. Jennifer Van Grove covered the social beat for CNET. She loves Boo the dog, ...