There are many URL shorteners. I’ve found 11 reasons to unshorten them instead.
Grab attention*
Change your email footer link to a long link to get more people clicking which makes sense, hey it’s long and can’t be ignored. This works especially well with very short body texts in the email like ‘hi’ or ‘thx’ due to better contrast.
Mask your content
Hide your link while extending it. Prevent your precious domain from being spotted easily. For hackers and those who love surprises. It’s unreadable and elusive. Digital camouflage.
Train memory
Train memory by memorizing very long URLs. Why? Why not? Not what? You see, you’ve already forgotten. Care about your memory to keep attention to such long paragraphs of text.
What happens on the Internet, stays on the Internet
Do not let your link to be spelled by phone or pronounced out loud from a piece of paper. Stay online!
Be a copy & paste nazi
Don’t let others going hard and typing your links with stress. Teach people how to copy and paste them. ABC of PC.
Boost your Ego
Do you want to feel yourself in chat like driving a Hummer among a swarm of Smart cars? Enlarge your links like a boss.
Stay unique
Get a link that no one has. Become the chosen owner of the artifact in a single copy. Do you still use a permanent link? Forget about it. Change links like gloves.
Be a savagery esthete
Laconic links and interfaces are too sterile, they do not have the comfort and vitality of dense thickets and forests. From now on, you can turn links into lianas. Make your Internet comments and messages feel like sprawling thickets in the digital jungles. Looking good now.
Hack your studying
Useful when you need to make your school essay longer, like 5000 characters. Instead of writing, you can simply make the sources/references section longer by making the links longer. K.O.!
Remove whitespace*
If you are a designer, often times you can be asked to put links onto print pieces such as posters, flyers, or one-sheeters. This is just perfect for taking up unnecessary whitespace.
Finally,
For the tons of times, you needed your short link to stay longer. Now you can.
