To communicate in gifs or not to communicate in gifs

Our director this week gave me a compliment that he cracked up in laughter because of a GIF I had posted in a management Teams chat.  I replied that my motto is that you can never use too many GIFs and that there is a GIF for everything.


Well, of course, you can communicate too much in GIFs, but in more informal communications I love to use them. It is widely used at work in fact so at the start or end of the day, before the weekend, when someone sighs of being tired or having a difficult customer;.. There will be a GIF reply on Teams, often replied to with another gif. 

My colleagues claim the best GIF's are available on What'sApp but I sort of hate WhatsApp and try to avoid it as much as I can.  (fact is: you can't...you are thrown in a 1001 groups if you are the parent of some children that have activities and more and more people refuse to (i)message.  So I wouldn't know if there's awesome GIFs there and to be honest, I don't see others send them a lot at all.  Maye I'd love Whatsapp more if they did. 

About a year ago, Kabouter taught me how to make GIF files very easily with the standard functionality on an iPhone or iPad. We had so much fun goofing around and turning a lot of our pictures in a GIF too.  But it seems a bit odd and too self-centred to use them all the time, definitely not in a professional context. 
What I miss is to quickly find them in conversations though, they are somewhere hidden deeply in my endless picture stream and only to be located with filters. 


But anyway...I do think we should use them more.  Visual funny communcation is fun to do!