The graph below show the number of hours spent on social media per day from 2010 to 2016 as well as the reasons why they used them. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevent.

The graph below show the number of hours spent on social media per day from 2010 to 2016 as well as the reasons why they used them. 

Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevent.
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The charts provide information about daily
hours
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spent on four online platforms from 2010 to 2016,
as well as
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the percentage of usage reasons.
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, it is evident that screen time on all channels fluctuated over the six-year period, particularly
Instagram
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. Meanwhile, Snapchat remained the most popular application throughout the given years, except for 2014. In fact, these platforms were mainly used for communication purposes.
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the line graph, in 2010, people spent their time on Snapshot the longest, with 5
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per day, followed by Facebook,
Instagram
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and LinkedIn. The trend in all cases had been
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until 2012 when Facebook gained more involvement over the next two years, surpassing its Snapchat counterpart in 2014.
However
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, by the end of 2016, Facebook
finally
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lost its screen time, ranking third behind Snapchat and
Instagram
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. LinkedIn's
hours
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spent were still far behind the others. Interestingly, the screen
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on
Instagram
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experienced an extreme fluctuation
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which there was a spike in 2012 to around 4.5
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.
Nevertheless
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, the figure drastically plummeted to under 2
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in 2014
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and
then
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surged to reach its new peak
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almost 5
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in 2016. In terms of usage, almost two-thirds (58%) of the total goes towards communication, and approximately a quarter (23%) was for shopping,
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the rest is spent on other entertainment purposes
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as playing games and watching videos.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words hours, instagram with synonyms.
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