--- --- # Mark Zuckerberg Accepts Chris Christie’s Ice Bucket Challenge ## Video: It’ll Be A Cold Day: The Ice Bucket Challenge [Watch (HLS stream): It’ll Be A Cold Day: The Ice Bucket Challenge](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GIHofBBD.m3u8) (1:33)  _Published 2014-08-11. If you’ve seen people all over your newsfeed dumping buckets of ice water on themselves, you’re not alone. The Ice Bucket Challenge is ironically one of the hottest things on social media as it tries to raise money for ALS charities._ by [Stephanie Burnett](https://time.com/author/stephanie-burnett/) ## Stephanie Burnett Aug 14, 2014 8:59 AM UTC by [Stephanie Burnett](https://time.com/author/stephanie-burnett/) ## Stephanie Burnett Aug 14, 2014 8:59 AM UTC Mark Zuckerberg became the latest celebrity to take on the ALS “[Ice-Bucket Challenge](http://time.com/3100272/als-ice-bucket-challenge/)” on Wednesday after being [nominated](http://time.com/3107529/chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge/) by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Looking into the camera, Zuckerberg then nominated Bill Gates, Facebook colleague Sheryl Sandberg, and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to take on the challenge within 24 hours or to donate $100 dollars. The video, which was [posted](https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10101586925575221) on Zuckerberg’s Facebook page, shows him in a tight blue T-shirt and dark pants as he pours a bin filled with cold water over his head. His reaction? “That was really cold.” Ice Bucket Challenge: Mark Zuckerberg Accepts Christie Nomination ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3110357/mark-zuckerberg-chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge-bill-gates-sheryl-sandberg-netflix-facebook/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3110357/mark-zuckerberg-chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge-bill-gates-sheryl-sandberg-netflix-facebook/"},"headline":"Mark Zuckerberg Accepts Chris Christie’s Ice Bucket Challenge","datePublished":"2014-08-14T08:59:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:41.485Z","description":"And nominates Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg and Reed Hastings","url":"https://time.com/3110357/mark-zuckerberg-chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge-bill-gates-sheryl-sandberg-netflix-facebook/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tech","society","viral","Bill Gates","Mark Zuckerberg","als ice bucket challenge"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Stephanie Burnett","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-burnett/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3110357/mark-zuckerberg-chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge-bill-gates-sheryl-sandberg-netflix-facebook/","name":"Mark Zuckerberg Accepts Chris Christie’s Ice Bucket Challenge"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"It’ll Be A Cold Day: The Ice Bucket Challenge","description":"If you’ve seen people all over your newsfeed dumping buckets of ice water on themselves, you’re not alone. The Ice Bucket Challenge is ironically one of the hottest things on social media as it tries to raise money for ALS charities.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/GIHofBBD/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-08-11T16:10:55.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/GIHofBBD.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3110357/mark-zuckerberg-chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge-bill-gates-sheryl-sandberg-netflix-facebook/","duration":"PT1M33S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3110357/mark-zuckerberg-chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge-bill-gates-sheryl-sandberg-netflix-facebook/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```