A GIF, that is, Graphics Interchange Format, has its purposes. 
faces come to mind. Animated GIFs have their use too. After all, how many Web sites have you come across that are 
. The Daily Post article references “whimsical lolcats” and mentions that animated GIFs are used for storytelling or social commentary. If you view those sites, you find some cute (for 3 1/2 iterations) cat animations, a boring and tiring fencing animation and a twitching, spasmodic, repetitive few-second-long video clip from the Olympics. This is oh so painful. These GIFs simply make your eyes go 
. Then there is the use of GIFs for social commentary. The caption is the best part of these “commentaries.” The video clips are way too short to be viewed for more than 2.375 iterations. Watching these over and over and over and over again will indeed drive you insane
and the point of social commentary is lost in this inane insanity.
You might even begin to wonder on which planet you live 
.
There is a purpose for all this. GIFs are great for high school hijinks, not for political punditry. One good use of a GIF is to let you know it was a good Thanksgiving - even though I ate turkey 
6 days straight. Black Friday has come and gone and store owners are feeling the 
. Christmas is coming and many homes have been
decorated to the 
excess. Let’s forget that Christmas is all about presents and 
I was going to create my own animated GIFs but this was easier. GIFS are for fun, mostly. Using them for anything serious is not a good thing. Then, in this day and age, the attention spans of many are shorter than the seconds it takes a GIF to begin the next iteration.
It is time to end this post with a simple Good Day!
All GIFs were obtained from this website: http://www.gifanimations.com
My apologies if these animations do not always work. Formatting them so they animate in the output of the post was tricky.
Posted by shatashari on November 27, 2012 at 10:44 AM
I think the GIFs you presented make a point on their own. Wish I could have made my created GIFs animated,but they refused once the post was publish. Glad you were able to get yours to work, they were fun.
Posted by Rotten Ray on November 27, 2012 at 11:17 AM
I had to play around with the size of the GIFs to make them animated. Eventually I got them to all work. The one thing I missed seeing at first was that a couple of the seasonal GIFs I used only loop for a short while before they stop. Stil, I think I made my point.
Posted by shatashari on November 27, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Is truth, your point was clear.
Posted by shatashari on November 27, 2012 at 11:35 AM
Yes!, Thank you. I changed the size of my created GIFs to original size and they are animated now.
Posted by Sunshine on November 27, 2012 at 2:48 PM
You did great weaving a story with the images…it was fun to read.
Posted by Rotten Ray on November 27, 2012 at 3:57 PM
Thanks. I try. It helps to get comments so I now that what I try is working as I intended.