21 Celeb Social Media Moments With "Facebook Grandma" Energy

Using societal media tin beryllium tricky, particularly erstwhile it's caller oregon unfamiliar to you. It tin effect successful immoderate beauteous comic fails...and besides immoderate beauteous embarrassing screw-ups.

Here are 21 times celebs failed astatine utilizing societal media, ranging from adorablly awkward to "Big yikes!":

1. In 2024, Barbra Streisand posted — and rapidly deleted! — this remark connected Melissa McCarthy's Instagram representation with manager Adam Shankman: "Give him my regards did you instrumentality Ozempic?" Some radical speculated that Barbra must've thought she was sending a DM.

In a follow-up post, Barbra said that she "just wanted to wage her a compliment," but "forgot the satellite is reading."

Some online commenters found the infinitesimal funny, portion others criticized her for asking Melissa if she took value nonaccomplishment drugs arsenic a compliment.

Melissa told TMZ, "I deliberation Barbra is simply a treasure and I emotion her."

She besides removed her archetypal station and shared a video of herself speechmaking a mag with Barbra connected the cover. She said, "The takeaway: Barbra Streisand knows I exist, she reached retired to me, and she thought I looked good! I triumph the day!"

2. In 2019, Julia Roberts was reportedly 1 of galore radical who fell for a viral Instagram post. On her account, she reposted the fake message: "Everything you've ever posted becomes nationalist from today, adjacent messages that person been deleted oregon the photos not allowed..Instagram DOES NOT HAVE MY PERMISSION TO SHARE PHOTOS OR MESSAGES."

3. In 2020, Madonna fell for a viral meme wherever Twitters users jokingly claimed that radical quarantined successful an Italian vicinity were each singing together. She shared a video that had been edited to marque it look similar radical were singing her opus "I Rise."

Other singers who fell for the gag included Katy Perry, Cheryl, Shawn Mendes, and Aya Nakamura.

4. In 2015, Mia Farrow tweeted a representation of her daughter, Quincy Farrow, wishing her a blessed 21st birthday. Rather than a idiosyncratic photo, she utilized an representation she recovered online. She seemingly forgot to harvest retired the hunt word she'd utilized to find it: "mia farrow and her achromatic children."

She deleted the station and replaced it with a caller one, wherever the representation was decently cropped.

5. In 2017, Mark Ruffalo did an Instagram Live for his fans astatine the Thor: Ragnarok premiere. He thought helium ended the watercourse earlier going into the theater, but it really kept broadcasting from wrong his pocket. He accidentally live-leaked the archetypal fewer minutes of the movie!

Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2018, helium said, "When I knew...First, my telephone was conscionable blowing up. Like, I was getting these texts, and I was like, 'I anticipation my mom's okay.' But I was like, 'I can't cheque my telephone successful the mediate of the theater. That's rude, particularly successful my ain movie.' And past idiosyncratic from Disney came up — a pistillate — and she poked me. And she said, 'Turn disconnected your phone!' I said, 'What? What? What?' What? What?' 'Your telephone is on! Turn disconnected your phone!' And I was like, 'My phone's not on.'" 

Watch him recount the acquisition of getting successful occupation with Disney for the accidental livestream, starting astatine the 2:05 mark:

6. In a 2019 Instagram communicative post, Justin Bieber poked amusive astatine the Daily Telegraph for misspelling his name. However, successful the representation of his laptop screen, eagle-eyed fans noticed that his hunt past included his ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez's Coachella outfit.

In a follow-up comments, helium wrote, "It came up aft my woman and I were [watching] my Coachella show hers played close aft excavation due to the fact that its successful the related happening don’t gladsome she did Coachella excessively its large … I person [nothing] to fell I don’t cognize it was determination I didn’t deliberation doubly and inactive don’t [‘cause] person [nothing] to hide...Wow Justin larn to benignant I hatred typing connected this damn iPad what I meant to accidental is that video of Selena singing Taki Taki came up aft my woman and I watched my Coachella performance. Obviously she’s gonna beryllium successful the related category, it [literally] was the adjacent video that played.. to fans and radical who deliberation I’m maliciously trying to commencement crap turn up."

7. In 2023, Keith Urban posted a cute TikTok video with his wife, Nicole Kidman, astatine a Taylor Swift concert. However, helium failed to announcement Phoebe Bridgers and Bo Burnham seemingly kissing successful the inheritance — and, therefore, accidentally hard-launched their relationship.

A fewer weeks later, Keith told Entertainment Tonight, "Yeah, oh, I recovered out. Phoebe, I'm truthful sorry...It felt precise awkward. I felt bad. I was conscionable digging connected the concert! You ne'er cognize what's gonna happen."

8. In 2019, Lena Dunham shared a screenshot of her 1.5-hour FaceTime telephone with her Girls costar Jemima Kirke to her Instagram communicative — accidentally leaking Jemima's telephone fig successful the process.

In a fewer follow-up posts, Lena said, "You guys I cognize I accidentally enactment @Jemima_Jo_Kirke’s fig connected Instagram but plz bash not telephone oregon substance her she’s a mom...I was trying to beryllium bully and made a immense mistake. I’m atrocious Jemima Lolol."

9. In 2011, Charlie Sheen accidentally tweeted his telephone fig on with the message, "Call maine bro. C."

10. In 2011, pursuing the proposition of an aide, UK politican Ed Balls decided to hunt his Twitter indirects to gauge what the speech astir him was. Rather than enactment successful his sanction successful the hunt bar, though, helium accidentally tweeted it — sparking Twitter users to state April 28th Ed Balls Day.

11. In 2019, Chrissy Tiegen accidentally posted her email code connected Twitter past promptly deleted it.

However, earlier she could instrumentality the tweet down, immoderate strangers tried FaceTiming her. So, she shared a video of herself and her ma answering 1 of the calls.

12. In 2011, Lindsay Lohan tweeted, "Hello Facebook. Yes, this is really Lindsay. Welcome to my Facebook page!"

13. In 2014, Oprah Winfrey tweeted a keyboard smash.

14. A fewer weeks later, Oprah tweeted a singular pronoun.

15. In 2019, Lady Gaga pressed f to wage respects past deed "send tweet."

16. In 2013, Cher tagged herself connected Twitter and told herself hi.

17. In 2018, Val Kilmer had thing to accidental connected Twitter, but didn't rather decorativeness his thought.

18. In 2010, Martha Stewart simply tweeted a pirate's favourite letter.

19. In 2013, Martha tweeted a singular ingredient.

20. A fewer days later, she tweeted a keyboard smash.

21. And finally, a fewer days aft that, Martha posted a grainy representation of a cattle with nary discourse different than the missive "L."