'Damn It, My Mom Is On Facebook' Filter Stops Online Embarrassment (VIDEO)

Chances are that if you're under a certain age you've had to deal with your mom finding out about Facebook. Now that your mom has a profile, you'll have to censor yourself when talking about drinking, sex and your political and religious beliefs - especially if you're in college.

Thankfully, "Saturday Night Live" has the solution in the form of a "Damn It My Mom Is on Facebook" filter. Simply write or post whatever you'd normally put on Facebook, hit the application button, and voila! The salacious details of your life will appear to your mom as something as innocuous as, "Boy do I need new Dungarees!"

WATCH:

Comments

[Jack Duluoz]

09:43 AM on 10/13/2010

The whole social networking fad seems so artificial to me. Was it that bad to make a phone call before? walk to someones house? Was it so horrible to write a letter? yes, with pen and paper. I even liked the occasional email every once in a while. What does Fake book have anything to do with keeping in touch??? All I see is a nation of narcissist intent on wasting time alone instead of real human interaction. You like privacy? You respect others Privacy? don't get a facebook page.

[mooph]

10:19 AM on 10/12/2010

AKA the Grandparents' Heart Attack Aversion Button or GHAAB. Now you can GHAAB all you want without risking the well being of your slightly behind the times loved ones.

[jdmn17]

10:07 AM on 10/12/2010

I don't want to snoop on my kids, more importantly I don't want them snooping on me. if I want to know what they are up to we use the old fashioned method called TALKING to them. You don't hear as much but you don't need to sift through their personal lives. Trust them, you can't stop them from experimenting with things, but if you raised them properly they, at least mine, don't go off half cocked and do crazy and illegal stuff. I think the more you pry, the more likely they are to rebel. Instead of being spies, try being parents.

[LoyalOpposition]

08:52 AM on 10/12/2010

My offspring must already have that feature because all I see are good things : ) just say'n.

[funkyou2]

07:12 PM on 10/11/2010

Well this just makes me feel like one of the lucky ones...All 4 of my kids and their friends are my friends too...We don't have to hide ..we've always been very honest with each other.
I like Facebook..it keeps me in touch with all kinds of people and things.

[Kimiko Austin-Rijs]

12:13 PM on 10/11/2010

People joining a public social network service concerned about who is going to be looking at their page probably should not have one. I mean, yes one must be cautious about what one says online but that is also true in everyday life so this is kind of silly to me. Most people that I know use facebook to simply keep up with family and friends. If you have something to hide then don't put yourself out there to begin with.

[Vernon Brown]

01:30 PM on 10/11/2010

You sound like the type that doesn't mind gov't phone-tapping because your life is boring. Well, mine isn't.

[progressivegreg]

03:45 PM on 10/11/2010

Do you feel obligated to post every detail? Many details are frankly pretty boring!

[Kimiko Austin-Rijs]

02:57 PM on 10/12/2010

My goodness you sound like you are a bit of a drama queen. How do you get me not minding the government invading my privacy by taping my home phone from my post? I am not concerned about what my family sees on my facebook page because I do not place anything on it to begin with that would be a cause for concerned. I am fortunate to have a family that is not trying to correct a grown woman for making statements that they may not necessarily like or agree with. Just can't get over you comparing illegal wire taping to CHOOSING rather to add a your mother to a facebook page.

[nanoscare]

11:44 AM on 10/11/2010

Hasn't anyone ever heard of this little feature called lists? Put your friends, parents, coworkers into their own lists and then only set the privacy to the appropriate list when you post something. My parents see a completely different facebook than my friends do.

[Vernon Brown]

01:29 PM on 10/11/2010

sounds difficult, I don't have time.

[nanoscare]

12:00 PM on 10/12/2010

oh it is! so difficult and time consuming. it took me 2 seconds to understand, 7 seconds to create a list then an entire minute to add 20 people.

[anastasia222]

10:21 AM on 10/11/2010

My mom's 80 and has a facebook account and is always posting to my posts, but I don't put anything on facebook that will "bite me in the a**". In other words, would come back to haunt me in case someone at work was to read it. Besides, if you're worrying that much, Dexter, maybe you should not be posting THAT kind of info, maybe you should keep it to yourself!! ;p

[Oldbull 56]

09:05 AM on 10/11/2010

I'm linked to all my sons on FB, I see no problem with what they post, lewd crude or otherwise. They're adults, I'm an adult, I find it a handy way to catch up when they're online via chat, since I really don't like phones. They're more likely to 'ewww' over my posts than I am over theirs lol.

[Jack Duluoz]

09:44 AM on 10/13/2010

"catch up" aka monitor. Kids can't escape from their parents anymore... what a nightmare.

[Oldbull 56]

04:59 AM on 10/14/2010

No, 'catch up' as in catch up on what they've been doing, kind of like what people do when they talk on the phone to their kids or their other extended family members. Hardly a nightmare besides, they're all thousands of miles away from us, they've already escaped :)

[Abena in Africa]

08:59 AM on 10/11/2010

My mom is thinking about opening a facebook account. Maybe I should have a "just say no to facebook" talk.

[littlepuffycloud]

11:10 AM on 10/11/2010

..but moms like to have fun and see how sad their old friends' lives have turned out too :)

[Abena in Africa]

11:51 AM on 10/11/2010

lol you're right. Don't want to deprive her of that kind of fun. ;)

[Vernon Brown]

01:31 PM on 10/11/2010

True. People never outgrow trying to figure out if they're better-off than their friends.

[cindyw]

08:43 AM on 10/11/2010

The only reason I'd want to be on Facebook is to look at my adult children's pages, but that's also the reason I don't have a Facebook page. I wouldn't want them to think I'm spying on them.

[Vernon Brown]

01:33 PM on 10/11/2010

"Adult children's pages" can be construed more than one way.

[cindyw]

03:23 PM on 10/11/2010

Indeed it could. I assure you, I'm referring to the legal version. :)

[madisonhack]

04:00 PM on 10/24/2010

Even if Cindyw doesn't know what you mean, I do.

[Jdaddy1951]

07:38 AM on 10/11/2010

My sons and my daughter are all on Facebook. I'm linked to all their pages. Fortunately, all of them are smart enough NOT to post anything they don't want the whole world to know --- including Dad and their siblings --- about their lives. And I don't, either.

[David Prentice]

02:02 AM on 10/11/2010

Another way to make sure your mom can't read your Facebook messages is by CLOAKing them first. Your messages are garbled and only people you've shared your private keyword with can read them. Sorry, mom & Facebook.

Free Cloakguard plugin :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/194385/
Demo : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4qN3TBqx08

[TidalShadow]

01:29 AM on 10/11/2010

I must be among the few people who won't post anything to facebook that I'd prefer other people didn't see.

[Jdaddy1951]

07:33 AM on 10/11/2010

Um ... are you a mom? Just askin' ...

[TidalShadow]

01:05 PM on 10/11/2010

No. I'm a college student. That makes it even stranger.

[peithecelt]

02:14 PM on 10/11/2010

No you're not, and there are plenty of things my parents don't need to know (and I'm a 32 year old Mom!) about my life.. And if they don't need to know, it doesn't need to be public. Those who need to know, do.

[Jdaddy1951]

09:37 PM on 10/11/2010

Good example. And there's some things my kids (and I'm a 59-year-old DAD) don't need to know about MY life. (Who says life stops after your kids are old enough to join Facebook?)

[Nichole Boultas]

01:24 AM on 10/11/2010

When I started using the Internet at 23, my mother (yes, I live at home for a personal reason) would be all over me telling me to watch what I say and do. And she was always over my shoulder watching what I was doing. Thank god she stopped afterna year. As far as the whole facebook thing, my mom has an account like me and a good many of my family.

[Jdaddy1951]

07:34 AM on 10/11/2010

You started using the Internet at 23? My kids were all over it at about age 13 ... not meaning to criticize you, but were you raised in a cellar?

[Vernon Brown]

01:35 PM on 10/11/2010

I guess she could be in her 50's, but I suspect we'll be hearing more about this family...