Facebook responsible for Golden Girl on Saturday Night Live?

Posted on March 8th, 2010. Written by Jamie Northrup.

Betty White on SNL thanks to Facebook?

If you haven’t heard of Betty White, she is one of the famous actresses / comedians that appeared in the long running sitcom, The Golden Girls, that ran form 1985 to 1992. She is now 88 years old and had all but disappeared from the radar in recent years until a Facebook fan page changed all of that.

David Mathews, one of White’s many fans, started a fan page on Facebook back on December 30th 2009 and thanks to some media exposure about the page and to Betty being back in the media’s eye lately thanks to a Super Bowl commercial and a role in the succesful movie, The Proposal, the page soon had almost half a million fans basically petitioning for Betty White to host Saturday Night Live.

And guess what? It looks like it’s going to happen. Yesterday at the Oscar, White confirmed that she would be at least appearing on the show.

You can’t deny the important of Facebook and other similar sites in our society today, between helping Barack Obama becoming President of the United States and now this, not counting the hundreds if not thousands of other opinions and decisions it has influenced.

In this case chalk up another victory for Social Media!

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4 Responses »

  1. The Stackers Kids
    March 9, 2010 • 1:30 pm

    it’s coYes, it’s coming true! Betty White will appear on Saturday Night Live this season. This is the best news I heard today.

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  2. passa passa
    March 9, 2010 • 9:38 pm

    I don’t normally post to blogs but I enjoyed this post so keep up the good work. -cheers-

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