UPDATE: While Facebook added support for natively posting GIFs, the ability to leave them in comments was not added---thankfully, a new Chrome extension just launched which can do exactly that.

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

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