Ice Bucket Challenge Rules Explained: How to Take the Ice Bucket Challenge for Charity

The Ice Bucket Challenge, or more commonly known on the internet as The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, has been a very popular trend over recent weeks, and it served its purpose well on raising awareness about the ALS disease.

The Ice Bucket Challenge didn't just raise awareness, but it also has raised $100 million within just one month, according to a report from the official ALSA.org site.

Many high profile celebrities have joined in to help raise awareness of the cause and the challenge. Celebrity, political figures, company owners as well as normal netizens - so why can't you?

However, it is not as simple as dousing yourself with a bucket of water mixed with ice cubes and hoping that people notice you. There's actually more to it, and it seems a lot of people overlook these important factors.

The first thing to keep in mind is, in order to do the challenge, you need to be nominated by somebody. Practically, you should have 24 hours to do it after you're been nominated, but this is sometimes overlooked.

Once nominated, the next thing you need to do is simple. You can refuse doing the challenge and donate $100 to ALSA.org or you can do the challenge and donate any amount you want to ALSA.org.

If you decide to do the challenge, you should show evidence by posting a video of yourself on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter or just about any social media outlet, dousing yourself with a bucket of cold water and ice cubes.

However, before you grab that bucket, make sure that you nominate at least three people to do the challenge as well after you. Others have been a bit more creative and did the challenge in a variety of ways so don't limit yourself to just standing there and flipping the bucket over your head.

According to an additional rule, alsa.org also asks that you add the hashtags #icebucketchallenge, #alsicebucketchallenge, and #strikeoutals when telling people about it on social media sites.