Omnivorous Surfer

I hate it when I want to share a link that is so long it wraps and sometimes doesn't all get included in the active link!  I don't understand how this works, but I'm satisfied at this point to know that it does work. According to 10 links to shorten your links, all you have to do is to copy and paste the URL in a box on the TinyURL website, click the Make TinyURL! button, and voila...the magic happens. It changed the 60-character link for the article mentioned above to a 25-character link, but the example given on TinyURL's home page is much more dramatic. A big plus, according to the article, is that the link created by TinyURL will never expire. Read the article if you want to see the other 9 link shorteners, but I think this is the one for me.

Note: This can be useful, but beware of shortened links you receive, especially from someone you don’t know. Because you can’t tell what site it points to, people have found link shorteners are a way to send you to sites where you might prefer not to go!