Do you often share links via e-mail, Twitter, etc?  Are those URL links unmanagably long?

A long URL link will often break in e-mail, making it “unclickable” by the recipient.  With Twitter, you only have 140 characters to work with, so you don’t want to use up those characters with a long URL link.

Here’s the answer to the problem:

Instead of sharing a long URL, use one of several URL-shortening services to shrink that link.  My favorites are tinyurl.com, is.gd, ow.ly, and bit.ly.

You can give tinyURL a try right here:  (Just type in a long URL and tinyURL will create a tiny URL that will not break in e-mail postings and never expires).