You may be seeing a lot of URL Shortening Services, such as bit.ly or Tinyurl.  These are some of the most popular used ones and there are plenty of others out there as well.  Typically these are used a lot on Twitter which is a mirco blogging service that only allows 140 characters and sometimes you want to send a link and they can get pretty long and take up all the space.  To fix that users created URL shortening services that shrink the URL to show something like this: http://bit.ly/bXdt564 instead of something like http://domainname.com/year/2010/month/january/day/12/url-shortening-services – you get the point. 

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How do I use Facebook?  That is the question.

Well I wanted to discus How to use Facebook like how I use it.  As most of you may or may not know that Facebook is enormously popular, but it can be frustrating to others.  The design of Facebook leaves a lot to be desired and there are too many things to do on Facebook. 

There is no doubt that Facebook is very powerful social networking tool.  So how can you best use it?  Well I’m going to show you what I do to manage and enjoy Facebook.

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I recently can across a neat video of someone testing out a 1964 modem and I thought it was really neat to just think about how people connected to the internet back in the sixtys, which I didn’t have a clue that the internet was working back in the 60’s but again it was basically just little of data back then, but not a whole lot.