<body id="social-section">  
  <h1>Hover social buttons</h1>
  <h2>to change the body background-color</h2>
<div class="social-container">
<a href="#" class="twitter"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i>Twitter</a>

<a href="#" class="facebook"><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i>Facebook</a>

<a href="#" class="googleplus"><i class="fa fa-google-plus"></i>Google +</a>

<a href="#" class="pinterest"><i class="fa fa-pinterest"></i>Pinterest</a>

<a href="#" class="dribbble"><i class="fa fa-dribbble"></i>Dribbble</a>

<a href="#" class="instagram"><i class="fa fa-instagram"></i>Instagram</a>
</div>
</body>
/* Demo Stuff */
*,:before,:after{
-moz-box-sizing:border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
box-sizing:border-box;
}

h1, h2 {
  text-align: center;
  line-height: 20px
}
h1 {
    color: rgba(0,0,0,.8);
}

h2 {
  color: rgba(0,0,0,.2);
}

.social-container {
	margin:0 auto;
  padding: 40px 0;
	width:200px;
  height:100%;
}

/* Add this ID to a section or something you want to change the background-color */
#social-section {
  padding:60px 0;
  -webkit-transition: all .2s ease-out;
-moz-transition: all .2s ease-out;
-ms-transition: all .2s ease-out;
-o-transition: all .2s ease-out;
transition: all .2s ease-out;
}

/* Button Styles */
.social-container a {
display: block;
width:200px;
line-height: 40px;
border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,.1);
color: rgba(0,0,0,.6);
margin:20px 0;
text-decoration: none;
text-align:center;
}

.social-container a i {
margin-right: 15px;   
}

.social-container a:hover  {
border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,.3);
color: rgba(255,255,255,.6);
}

/* Hover background colors */
.color-twitter {
  background-color: #00aced !important;
}
.color-facebook {
  background-color: #3b5998 !important;
}
.color-pinterest {
  background-color: #cc2127 !important;
}
.color-googleplus {
  background-color: #dd4b39 !important;
}
.color-dribbble {
  background-color: #ea4c89 !important;
}
.color-instagram {
  background-color: #417399 !important;
}

.color-twitter,
.color-facebook,
.color-pinterest,
.color-googleplus,
.color-dribbble,
.color-instagram {
-webkit-transition: all .2s ease-in;
-moz-transition: all .2s ease-in;
-ms-transition: all .2s ease-in;
-o-transition: all .2s ease-in;
transition: all .2s ease-in;
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THERE IS A CSS ONLY APPROACH 
By Christopher Grabinski (@chrisgrabinski) 
You can find it here: https://codepen.io/chrisgrabinski/pen/dDbFt

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THERE IS A MUCH CLEANER JS-PEN
With it you can add social media icons without having to update your javascript
by Jesse Shawl (@jshawl) 
You can find it here: 
https://codepen.io/jshawl/pen/nHefA

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$(".twitter").hover(function () {
	$("#social-section").toggleClass("color-twitter")
});

$(".facebook").hover(function () {
	$("#social-section").toggleClass("color-facebook")
});

$(".googleplus").hover(function () {
	$("#social-section").toggleClass("color-googleplus")
});

$(".pinterest").hover(function () {
	$("#social-section").toggleClass("color-pinterest")
});

$(".dribbble").hover(function () {
	$("#social-section").toggleClass("color-dribbble")
});

$(".instagram").hover(function () {
	$("#social-section").toggleClass("color-instagram")
});

External CSS

  1. https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.min.css

External JavaScript

  1. //cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js