Social media challenges: Will they ever end?

Social media challenges: Will they ever end?

March 31, 2019 11:33 pm MST.

A local social media expert says a lot of the social media challenges are hoaxes- like the recent ’48-hour challenge’. But now the big question is will these challenges ever end. Dalia S Ashry reports.

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