What you need to know about the trending ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

Its been aon the news and frankly I was drawn to it when A-list celebrities kept accepting the challenge. I decided to do a little research on it,for your viewing and knowledge pleasure.But don't expect me to partake any time soon, because I do mine every morning when I have my bathe.

The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, is an activity involving dumping a bucket of ice water on one's head to promote awareness of the diseaseamyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and encourage donations to research. It went viral throughout social media during mid 2014. In the United Kingdom, people also participate in the challenge for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.

The challenge dares nominated participants to be filmed having a bucket of ice water poured on their heads and challenging others to do the same. A common stipulation is that nominated people have 24 hours to comply or forfeit by way of a charitable financial donation.

Within 24 hours of being challenged, participants are to video record themselves in continuous footage. First, they are to announce their acceptance of the challenge followed by pouring ice into a bucket of water. The bucket is then to be lifted overhead and poured over the participant's head. Then the participant can call out a challenge to other people.

Whether people choose to donate, perform the challenge, or do both varies. In one version of the challenge, the participant is expected to donate $10 if they have poured the ice water over their head or donate $100 if they have not.

David Beckham,José Mourihno,Kelly clarkson,Anne Hathaway etc...have ball participated in the challenge and actually done it,and its freezing cold to do so I can assure you.

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