Facebook launches gif-style video profile pictures

New profile videos let you 'show a part of yourself you couldn't before', says social media company

RIP the static profile pic. Facebook has reincarnated the highlight/lowlight (depending on your tolerance for flashy things on the internet) of early 2000s' social media: animated profile pics are back.

Such avatars, which became all to common to the MySpace generation through liberal use of animated gifs, have largely been absent in subsequent social networks even as the file format has undergone a resurgence.