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 charts provide information about daily

hours

spent on four online platforms from 2010 to 2016,

as well as

the percentage of usage reasons.

Overall

, it is evident that screen time on all channels fluctuated over the six-year period, particularly

Instagram

. Meanwhile, Snapchat remained the most popular application throughout the given years, except for 2014. In fact, these platforms were mainly used for communication purposes.

According to

the line graph, in 2010, people spent their time on Snapshot the longest, with 5

hours

per day, followed by Facebook,

Instagram

and LinkedIn. The trend in all cases had been

upwards

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until 2012 when Facebook gained more involvement over the next two years, surpassing its Snapchat counterpart in 2014.

However

, by the end of 2016, Facebook

finally

lost its screen time, ranking third behind Snapchat and

Instagram

. LinkedIn's

hours

spent were still far behind the others. Interestingly, the screen

hours

on

Instagram

experienced an extreme fluctuation

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which there was a spike in 2012 to around 4.5

hours

.

Nevertheless

, the figure drastically plummeted to under 2

hours

in 2014

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and

then

surged to reach its new peak

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almost 5

hours

in 2016. In terms of usage, almost two-thirds (58%) of the total goes towards communication, and approximately a quarter (23%) was for shopping,

while

the rest is spent on other entertainment purposes

such

as playing games and watching videos.