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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, ...

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 ...

Why use a static photo as your profile pic when you can now use an animated GIF file instead? Google+, Google's social network, will display the animation when a member's profile is viewed from a ...

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.

Google is taking a page out of Facebook's book and is pushing images as a main part of Google+. As part of this initiative, Google has added support for Gifs to be used as Google+ profile pictures.

A quick search will show endless Facebook users seeking out ways to use animated GIFs as their profile picture, and while that social network still doesn't allow it, Google+ has stepped forward to ...