Everyone from the Royal Family, Hollywood icons and members of the public got in on the act - snapping photos from incredibly high places, or popping up in the background of celebrity-filled shots that spread across the internet like wildfire.
Whether it's that Oscar selfie, the Queen and Prince Harry photobombing athletes at the Commonwealth Games or inspirational cancer sufferer Stephen Sutton taking photos from his hospital bed, we will all have our favourite 2014 moment.
Here, FEMAIL rounds up this year's best social media photo campaigns that got us talking.Selfies may have been around for a while - as far back at the 1800s in fact - but one picture broke all social media records in March 2014.
The Oscar selfie featuring Ellen Degeneres, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts and Bradley Cooper, leads the way for social media trends of 2014 as it was retweeted more than two million times.
Ellen shared the snap on her Twitter page where it became the most retweeted ever, with 1,076,971 in less than an hour.Andrew and Sally Rose Robinson from Manchester touched hearts around the globe with their 'just married' snap taken at the altar at Christ Church in Treales, Lancashire, and scooped first prize at the World Selfie Awards in September.
Russian daredevil Alexander Remnev scaled the world's tallest residential building, the Princess Tower in Dubai, to picture himself 1,350ft high in May.
Even Prince Charles couldn't resist when asked to pose by cheeky schoolboy Joseph Wilson, who was invited to meet the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall after rescuing several flood victims in his canoe in Yalding, Kent, in March.
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Kim Kardashian spawned what seemed like a never-ending stream of viral imitations and spoofs by showing off her large behind in a white swimsuit last year. And in November she outdid herself by trying to break the internet with her belfie on the cover of Paper magazine.
Kanye West's ex-lover Amber Rose showed just how much she has in common with his new wife as she posted her version of Kim's famous shot in October.
The 30-year-old showed off her incredible derriere in a tiny dollar bill-themed bathing suit, and the picture has since been liked more than 147,000 times.
While 2014 was also the year TOWIE star Lauren Goodger was threatened with a lawsuit by Carmen Ortega, who claims her belfie was ripped off.
Goodger, 28, reportedly stole the saucy snap from the Instagram of 27-year-old US model and posted it on her own page with the caption: 'Nightmare wife.' Within a few hours of posting it, some followers pointed out that the picture had been taken from Carmen's profile, lightened and had the waist widened. Lauren then deleted the picture.
A few days later Carmen tweeted with two forbidding hashtags - '#lawsuit' and '#TheEnd' - while Lauren wrote that she never made out the picture was of her.
Photobomb, officially defined by the Collins English Dictionary as 'to intrude into the background of a photograph without the subject's knowledge' was announced as the 2014 Word of the Year after seeing off competition from 50,000 other new additions..
While it has been referred to as far back as 2008, the photobomb received a powerful endorsement from Prince Harry and the Queen in July when they were both pictured in the background of athletes' photos at the Commonwealth Games.
Harry did a thumbs up behind New Zealand officials while his grandmother smiled behind Australian hockey players in Glasgow. The image of Her Majesty has been retweeted 15,000 times and favourited by 13,000 Twitter users.
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch took the craze to the red carpet by jumping up behind U2 at the Oscars in March. The prankster was pictured with arms raised and fingers splayed as the veteran rockers posed for a photo op on the red carpet ahead of their performance.
