*SMH! One in four kids feels humiliated by mum and dad online #CarryGobySeanKellz #FutureGroupNG via @i_amreginaldjr

THANKS to Facebook and Twitter, the generation gap has never felt so wide - and children are so embarrassed by their parents behaviour online they're defriending them and blocking them in their droves...

Teenagers wish their parents would stop embarrassing them on Facebook[GETTY]

First they post inappropriate photos of you and then they post inappropriate pictures of themselves! No wonder our parents make us cringe when they're let loose on the internet.
In fact, parents are so embarrassing that a third (30 per cent) of 18 to 34-year-olds have blocked or deleted their mum and dad from Facebook.
Mothers have the edge over fathers though, as they seem to embarrass their children a little less (28 per cent of the time) than their husbands who manage to enrage their youngsters 40 per cent.

The generation gap goes public on Facebook [PH]

Mums are also more down with the LOL-tastic lingo and are twice as likely to understand social media slang such as YOLO (you only live once) and ROFL (rolling on the floor laughing) than their male counterparts.
The survey, commissioned by mobile phone company Three, found that more than a quarter (29 per cent) of British children feel regularly humiliated by their parents online.

When your mother doesn't understand autocorrect... [PH]

A Three spokesperson said: “With parents becoming more active in the digital world, it’s interesting to look at the ways in which they’re interacting with their children.
As the network built for the internet, we know how easy it can be for those embarrassing moments to occur. The truth is, it’s those blunders - the typos in texts and public overshares on Facebook - that cause the most giggles, which is what sharing should all be about.”

 

A quarter of children disown their parents on social media [PH]

 THE TOP 10 MOST EMBARRASSING THINGS A PARENT CAN DO ONLINE
1 Posting inappropriate photos of you (24 per cent)
2 Posting inappropriate photos of themselves (21 per cent)
3 Using online slang incorrectly (10 per cent)
4 Posting inappropriate comments on their wall (10 per cent)
5 Comment on your status (nine per cent)
6 Chatting with your friends (four per cent)
7 Commenting on your friends’ photos (four per cent)
8 Commenting on your photos (three per cent)
9 Tagging you in posts (three per cent)
10 Liking posts on your wall (three per cent)
* Shake my head