The time has come for us to stop using the Internet. Many of us use the Internet almost every day, and if we continue to do so the problems caused by its use will only continue to get worse.

It may not be obvious, but not all of the Internet is useful. For example, many pictures are created and shared online by cats who constantly fail to use proper English. On some social sites there are occasionally postings that are not actually relevant to many of those who see them. In addition, many online media outlets such as newspapers and magazines have websites that continue to be maintained, despite the fact that the general public obviously prefers to receive information regarding current events via physical, paper-based forms.

However, not all of the Internet suffers from such uselessness. As an illustration, about 30 percent of all Internet traffic is pornography. While it is commendable that there is such a large amount of persons curious about the uninhibited expression of affection, there is only so much that one person can enjoy. Personally, I do not have enough time to become that sexually educated, unfortunately meaning I will not be able to see much of this valuable material.

Many people attempt to use the Internet as a place to perform research or to learn about new things. Tragically, this has resulted in libraries being all but abandoned, and increasingly reliant on billboard advertising. Many young people seem to have forgotten that the librarians who inhabit our libraries are usually experts in everything, while the Internet is not.

We must also remember that the Internet is a fairly new creation, especially when compared to other fields of knowledge. Physics is a few thousand years old, and has only very recently provided actual useful information. Psychology is still fairly useless. Even philosophy, which can be considered one of the oldest areas of human intellect, has never been practical in any way to anyone, ever. For the Internet to become mature enough to elicit beneficial data, we must leave it to the experts to develop it over another few hundred years at a minimum.

I am not the first to understand that using the Internet is a problem. Although there has been previous research done on its usage, the results of such studies have not had enough of an impact on us. Some researchers have argued that we should simply reduce our Internet useage. As I have clearly shown, this would not be nearly enough to solve any Internet-related problem. This is akin to suggesting that a heroin addict should just take it easy, rather than quit altogether.

Most people I have informally interviewed regarding this subject have expressed concern that quitting the Internet may be a difficult task. Luckily, because most people using the Internet are not extracting anything of value from it, stopping its usage should not be a difficult task for most users. A worthwhile suggestion to help transition people off of the Internet is to suggest replacing the time formerly spent on browsing with tasks that are far more productive such as watching television, learning magic tricks or jousting.

Even though we are sometimes reluctantly willing to admit that using the Internet is not a useful way to spend our time as humans, we often disregard that doing so also disturbingly wastes the valuable time of our personal computers. While no one knows why computers were created, as their masters, we at least owe it to them to seek better ways in which they may be used. Hopefully in doing so we will benefit ourselves by discovering better ways to find new information, maintain our social relationships over physical distances and learn more about the vast diversity of human sexual expression.

In the end, stopping our use of the Internet can surely only make us more productive, and in all likelihood will vastly increase the overall quality of our lives.