No computer in sight: Midtown resident Michael Javakian deleted his Facebook account four months ago. "The air smells better," he says of life now. Handout No computer in sight: Midtown resident Michael Javakian deleted his Facebook account four months ago. "The air smells better," he says of life now.Related Stories JetBlue flight attendant is toast of online community Young Bill de Blasio sports mullet in photos on wife's Facebook page State Department spent
cheap insanity workout $630,000 to get more Facebook 'likes': report Austin, Texas, teen behind bars after Facebook joke about shooting kids Facebook probably doesn’t ‘like’ Michael Javakian’s status. The 38-year-old from midtown deleted his account four months ago ― and he has never been happier.“The air
p90x sale smells better. Roses started to bloom. Everything is brighter in my eyes,” he says.Javakian first signed up on the site to track down his grammar school classmates, but the constant barrage of event invites, friend requests, messages and memes drove him to sign out for good two years later.“It was just awful,” he says. “Everyone saying, I’m at the Yankee game, I’m
cheap p90x out to dinner at Ben & Jack’s [Steakhouse] ― I couldn’t take it.”And don’t even get him started on the photos. “It was 10 people putting 10 million pictures up,” he groans. “And oh God, the baby pictures. The kids were ugly. It was making me sick.”Javakian isn’t alone. The social networking behemoth logged a whopping 665 million daily users in early 2013 ― up 26% from last year ― but as site traffic continues
cheap p90x to surge, an increasingly vocal group of disgruntled members has started to deactivate their accounts.Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News Former Facebook user Ebbin Girauld, of Coney Island, says, " 'Liking' something doesn't do anything." It was the endless mundanity that drove off Williamsburg rocker Vanessa Reseland. “If I see one more meme, I might explode,” says Reseland, the front woman of the band Wifey.She has decided to delete her Facebook page on her birthday on July 3 (can’t hurt to get some cake-day goodwill on the way out) after she failed to find anything genuinely interesting in her newsfeed. “I scrolled for over five minutes, and found nothing that inspired me, entertained me, informed me or bettered me in any way,” she says. “That might have been the last straw.”Facebook declined to comment for this piece, except to email a statement saying it is “gratified that more than 1 billion people, including enormous numbers of
cheap p90x young people, are using Facebook to connect and share.”But all that sharing has left some users not caring. “Those posts: ‘Like this if you want to cure cancer,’ that was the golden ticket to get
p90x sale the hell out of there,” says Ebbin Girauld, 25, from Coney Island, who closed out her account last September. “ ‘Liking’ something doesn’t do anything.”The former self-proclaimed “Facebook queen” was signed on 24/7 during her addiction’s peak. “I’d get up in the morning and check it. I’d check in once I got to work. I was always logged in,” she says. “I would read my friends’ updates, and try to outdo them with something funnier. It was very competitive.”
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