Not content with merely getting Betty White a gig hosting SNL — and seemingly indifferent to the fact that she called them (and all Facebook users) “losers” — White’s victory-drunk Facebook supporters have seized upon a new and overweening goal: Getting her to host the Academy Awards.

In a comparatively tame social-networking-gone-bad story, Jim Breyer, a member of Facebook‘s board of directors, had his Facebook account hacked, and then used to send out a phishing e-mail. It’s not that tame, though, considering that there are only four people on Facebook’s board of directors, Breyer, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, and Peter Thiel, so he’s actually one of the bigger names in charge of the network. The hack wound up sending spam to some of his more than 2,300 friends.

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Betty White’s highly anticipated stint as the host of Saturday Night Live aired last night, and the lovely young lady had some thanks for the community that put here there: Facebook.

But I really have to thank Facebook. When I first heard about the campaign to get me to host Saturday Night Live I didn’t know what Facebook was. And now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

I would never say the people on it are losers. But that’s only because I’m polite.

It’s uh, much more funny and endearing when she says it. Video from the folks at Mediaite after the jump.

The Portland Mercury polled its readers to determine the cover of their April 15th issue. While they could have easily dispensed with the formality of the poll and had artist Andrew Zubko ink a picture of Betty White wearing a metal bikini, riding a centaur with the head of the late John Ritter, and wielding a flaming chainsaw — since what else could have possibly won? — it was nice to get the community involved, no?

Larger picture after the jump:

In case you were on the fence after the 2008 election about the Internet’s ability to effect real world change, the trajectory of former Golden Girl Betty White should be enough to sway you. Becoming something of a web celebrity (which included a successful Facebook campaign to have the 88-year-old host Saturday Night Live) has done wonders for White’s career, including turning what was supposed to be a cameo on a new sitcom, Hot in Cleveland, into a serial character’s role.

We’ve previously reported that the Facebooking hordes successfully petitioned SNL to get Betty White to host. Mow, we’ve got a date: May 8th, the night before Mother’s Day.

USA Today is reporting that Betty White will be hosting the May 8 broadcast of Saturday Night Live after refusing the spot for years. White, whose legendary status has persisted to a younger generation through her role in The Proposal, playing beer pong with Jimmy Fallon, and, yes, those Golden Girls reruns on Lifetime, became the center of a Facebook campaign to get her to host after the debut of her new Snickers ad during the Super Bowl. And Lorne Michaels couldn’t sound happier about it:

As buzzy and new media coverage-friendly as Facebook campaigns can be, their track record for bringing about actual change is rather spotty: The online world tends to be set in its ways (see: the myriad as-yet unsuccessful Facebook campaigns to add an official “Unlike” button), but the outside world is slow to respond to Facebook petitions.

But now, score one little but sweet victory for Facebook campaigners: Delightful 88-year-old comedienne Betty White is going to host SNL, thanks in large measure to a Facebook petition called “Betty White to Host SNL (please?)!” with close to 500,000 fans.